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Thinking about the medicalization of obesity as a SJ issue is very interesting and seems strange. Your points however, make it a very compelling arguement. You bring up many points of false marketing, the ideal body shape, and the increase in other health issues. Be sure to seperate these catagories under differnt headings in your final submission (and remember citations ;) ). You touch upon the idea of women trying to achieve the ideal body; I was wondering if any other areas pertained to an intersectional approach. For example, in my GEO class I had taken last year, we learned about food insecurity in Latin America that results in low-income household have an increasing number of obese children due to an unbalanced diet. This would pertain to a class and race lens, such as the intersectional analysis we are encouraged to persue in this course! I hope you take this into consideration as an intersectional analysis of this topic would be even more interesting to learn about.