Jia Tolentino

Like it's like for people like it's if weight was incidental to that, it was like, can you do the things in your life that you want to do? You know, do you feel good?

Like it's like for people like it's if weight was incidental to that, it was like, can you do the things in your life that you want to do? You know, do you feel good?

And it's like that is probably the foundation that, you know, that could be the start. That's amazing.

And it's like that is probably the foundation that, you know, that could be the start. That's amazing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. And like, do you feel good? Do you feel good in your body? Right. I think that's what I was thinking about the like appetite and pleasure thing. Right. Like if that was valued. Right. Like people just feeling good.

Yeah. And like, do you feel good? Do you feel good in your body? Right. I think that's what I was thinking about the like appetite and pleasure thing. Right. Like if that was valued. Right. Like people just feeling good.

Like it seems extremely health conducive. Right. Yeah.

Like it seems extremely health conducive. Right. Yeah.

There was a there was a thing there is like Harvard does this implicit bias study. And I think I mentioned in that piece that I think it was I'm going to get the dates wildly wrong. But it was maybe sort of from a point in the mid 2000s to a point in recent years. They analyzed sort of 10 vectors of bias about age, about age.

There was a there was a thing there is like Harvard does this implicit bias study. And I think I mentioned in that piece that I think it was I'm going to get the dates wildly wrong. But it was maybe sort of from a point in the mid 2000s to a point in recent years. They analyzed sort of 10 vectors of bias about age, about age.

Skin color, about like gender, about, you know, like these various things. Every single implicit and explicit expression of bias went down in that sort of like Obama era period, except for bias against weight. And that went up, I believe, both implicit and explicit. Wait, so everything went down except that? Yeah, I was quite surprised by that.

Skin color, about like gender, about, you know, like these various things. Every single implicit and explicit expression of bias went down in that sort of like Obama era period, except for bias against weight. And that went up, I believe, both implicit and explicit. Wait, so everything went down except that? Yeah, I was quite surprised by that.

Yeah, everything went down of the 10 things tested in this particular Harvard study.

Yeah, everything went down of the 10 things tested in this particular Harvard study.

What I thought originally about the best case sort of cultural effect of this, you know, the fact that this technology exists could be is that we could kind of remove the moral valences from every part of this conversation possible, right? That we could understand that...

What I thought originally about the best case sort of cultural effect of this, you know, the fact that this technology exists could be is that we could kind of remove the moral valences from every part of this conversation possible, right? That we could understand that...

metabolism and the hormonal preset that leads your body to be a certain weight and that all of it is much more sort of arbitrary and kind of morally neutral. And like you said, Christiana, like a sign of just all of the other things environmentally that you're swimming in. Like I think that is the best thing that something like Ozempic can do is just is lead people to the understanding that

metabolism and the hormonal preset that leads your body to be a certain weight and that all of it is much more sort of arbitrary and kind of morally neutral. And like you said, Christiana, like a sign of just all of the other things environmentally that you're swimming in. Like I think that is the best thing that something like Ozempic can do is just is lead people to the understanding that