No More Skinny Pride

"If you had been watching closely, you could see that the change had come slowly. 'Dieting' was now considered tacky. It was anti-feminist. It was arcane. In the new millennium, all bodies should be accepted, and any inclination to change a body was proof of a lack of acceptance of it. ‘Weight loss’ was a pursuit that had, somehow, landed on the wrong side of political correctness. People wanted nothing to do with it. Except that many of them did: They wanted to be thinner. They wanted to be not quite so fat. Not that there was anything wrong with being fat! They just wanted to call dieting something else entirely."

--"Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age," by: Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times Magazine