Being disgusted by something shapes our culture, whether we're aware of it or not
"... the new Nike mannequin is not size 12, which is healthy, or even 16 – a hefty weight, yes, but not one to kill a woman. She is immense, gargantuan, vast. She heaves with fat.In a major publication, for money, and with the approval of at least one professional editor, Telegraph writer Tanya Gold voiced unmistakable disgust for fat bodies in an article earlier this year.
So what does Gold's disgust mean? One of the universal emotions defined by psychologist Robert Plutchick in his seminal work on the subject, disgust is a primal human driver. Its evolutionary advantage was theorized by research psychologists Megan Oaten, Trevor Case, and Richard Stevenson to relate to sensory perception of disease or toxicity in food, objects, and people. It serves as a kind of defense mechanism by which populations and individuals protect themselves against outbreaks.
But why shouldn't we sit with disgust? Why should we only look at and imagine a single tiny wedge of a single spectrum of human bodies? It can't be solely about economics. The Sopranos—arguably the most acclaimed television show of all time and if not the most influential second only to David Lynch's Twin Peaks—featured an unheard-of cast of overweight, balding, unusual-looking people and almost single-handedly transformed HBO into a programming juggernaut.
Disgust left unexamined serves to reinforce prejudices, but to sit with disgust, to hold it close and try to feel the contours of its reason for being, is to open one's self up to radical new experiences of empathy. In order to pursue this growth, audiences must seek out art which challenges, which gives them sensations other than amusement and pleasure. Some of their initial disgust may transmute over time into other emotions.
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