there is a healthy, “natural” way to monitor your body and it’s called interoception. it’s feeling what you’re feeling; it’s awareness of fatigue, hunger, physical discomfort, the way emotions manifest physically, other needs/desires.
technology like scales & step counters, and constructs like BMI designations & clothing sizes are means by which we are alienated from our bodies.
we are first stripped of our interoceptive awareness (esp as women) by a culture that forces us into discomfort and pain in almost every area of our lives, and then we are sold devices and labels – external surveillance – as counterfeit substitutes for that healthy interoceptive relationship with our bodies
when i say let’s refuse to surveil our bodies, i’m not suggesting we become alienated from them, i’m saying exactly the opposite
bongdanceking 