Exploring "Obesity" and the Health of Gay Men using Feminist Poststructuralism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Popular health discourses on obesity tend to highlight the negative impacts of excess weight. Obesity, however, also has the effect of ranking and stationing individuals in the neoliberal health paradigm as unhealthy, immoral, and undesirable. The effects of obesity discourses can be prominently observed in gay men’s culture where muscular, white, thin bodies are glorified. This paper employs a feminist poststructural framework to examine how desired bodies are constituted in gay culture, the effects this has on gay men’s experiences of food and exercise, and resistance within gay culture to dominant obesity discourses. A review of the literature on obesity, gay culture, gay men’s health, body image and eating practices was undertaken to inform this work. Various studies have shown that the views within gay culture on fat bodies result in feelings of body dissatisfaction, rejection, and isolation for many men, especially for those that fall outside the privileged version of male bodies or who are labelled as ‘obese’. A critical review of the literature will explore how these experiences are produced through the sexualized culture of gay men.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".