“This is what most girls are taught – that we should be slender and small. If you identify with an ideology based on the visibility of women, how do you deal with consequences of breaking these patriarchal expectations? This is what Roxane Gay explores in her book Hunger: A Memoir of My Body We are supposed to be thin but not too thin, polite but not boring, talkative yet not too talkative, visible yet not more visible than men.
Our society poses numerous expectation on women, one of them being the constant modification of our physical bodies in order to match up to unattainable beauty standards.
