Last week, visitors to the Jenny Craig website were surprised to find its usual offerings of subscription meal plans, exercise regimens, and articles on weight loss and nutrition replaced by a blunt message: “We give …
May 12, 2023
Another slice of humble pie: This week, in response to charges of body shaming, fat-phobia, and creating a hostile atmosphere for women by the prominent display of Jenny Craig’s name on the pavilion which she funded, the University of San Diego agreed to install Smokin’!, a bronze sculpture of a “modern, curvy woman” smoking a cigarette while relaxing in the nude, in the pavilion’s courtyard. “Smokin’! shows us a woman who is comfortable in her own skin, and doesn’t fret about putting her own pleasure first,” said USD President of Artistic Statements Rhoda Eyefull. “She doesn’t have ‘trouble losing the weight,’ because she knows that she doesn’t need to trouble herself about losing the weight. So she doesn’t need Jenny Craig, or Weight Watchers, or much of anything, really — except maybe another cigarette. We hope that this statue will help us undo some of the harm we may have caused by accepting money from a woman who profited from feminine anxieties created and imposed by the patriarchy’s male gaze.”
Posted May 10, 2023
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