On diets - Jess Ho

New year, same bullshit.

I’m at the age where all the targeted advertising I receive is for freezing my eggs, shapewear, period underpants, weight loss, weight loss and weight loss. Well, the joke’s on capitalism because I have no intention of participating in the international sport of narcissism, I mostly wear oversized men’s clothing, I have perfected the art of no leakage and I have been obsessively training for half my life. The thing about exercise is that it has never been for aesthetics. Not long after I was accused of being antisocial (see the previous newsletter), it escalated to depression. It clung to…

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