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    1. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 29 Aug 2018

      Tressie McMillan Cottom Retweeted teddy

      Whew. I was wholly unprepared for the white middle class woman culture of dieting. I only recently figured out that one never has to actually become thin or "fit", which I have no idea what that means. They must only perform WANTING to become it. Thus, the apps, tips, etc.https://twitter.com/sadmillennium/status/1034801736316342272 …

      Tressie McMillan Cottom added,

      teddy @sadmillennium
      i love the points @tressiemcphd is making about small talk. also, very common small talk among women at work in my experience has to do with food restriction/calories/salads/food rules/diets, seen as a neutral subject but is super harmful and triggering for some
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    2. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 29 Aug 2018

      There was a template for this in my cultural toolkit. You are supposed to be eternally suspended in almost-thinness. I have no idea how to do that. To perform it, I download food tracking apps and learn to say "whole 30" every second day of the week. That seems to help.

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    3. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 29 Aug 2018

      But really the near-obsessive focus on food/eating/dieting/thinness in modern interracial, mixed-class work spaces and social spaces is very, very challenging for me, too.

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    4. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 29 Aug 2018

      This is place where some exposure to black upper class culture probably could have helped me a lot. My adult sense of it is that black people with Jack and Jill kind of lives are most similar to white women's middle/upper class cultures in this: they talk a lot about thinness

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    5. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 29 Aug 2018

      That just didn't happen a lot at the Boys and Girls Club lol

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Aug 2018
      Replying to @tressiemcphd

      Oh, boy. Small talk. Middle East small talk can involve a lot of gallows humor. Well, sometimes it's also the case that things are dire. 😱 Joke/reality aren't distinct. Very hard to translate to North American small talk without scaring the living lights out of the people.

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        2. thot leedurr‏Verified account @DocDre 29 Aug 2018
          Replying to @zeynep @tressiemcphd

          I find middle eastern and South Indian small talk comfortable, tho. It’s so much more earthy and libidinal (and witty) than hwhite middle class small talk.

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        3. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 29 Aug 2018
          Replying to @DocDre @zeynep

          I find that the small talk of almost any oppressed culture works for me. Jewish, middle eastern, etc. And it's precisely the shared sense of absurdity that makes it less taxing, even when I don't get all of the cultural nuances

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