Priscila Arias, who created the slogan “Diet culture is patriarchal violence!” on March 8, 2025, is now demanding that medical personnel stop weighing patients during mandatory consultations.
“We will try to change the medical system from the ground up so that consultations are not spaces of harassment or aesthetic prejudice.”
She argued that many doctors automatically attribute any ailment to body weight (fatphobia bias), neglecting to investigate other real health causes. She pointed out that the fear of being weighed or judged causes many women to avoid going to the doctor.
Health professionals, including nutritionists, responded that weight is a basic clinical indicator necessary for calculating medication dosages and assessing metabolic risks. They argue that weight is not a “patriarchal construct” but an objective clinical parameter. They accuse the activist of promoting a “pseudoscience” that ignores the proven statistical and biological correlation between obesity and chronic diseases (diabetes, hypertension, joint problems). This is how this woman uses feminism to validate an unhealthy lifestyle, turning individual responsibility for health into supposed evidence of oppression against women.
Source: amoresantifeministas
