Modern American standards require that the ideal feminine body be small. A woman is taught early to contain herself, to keep arms and legs close to her body and take up as little space as possible….Men are under no such size restrictions and are allowed - often encouraged - to take up as much space as they can get away with. But when a woman’s stature or girth approaches or exceeds that of a man’s, she becomes something freakish. By becoming large, whether with fat tissue or muscle mass, she implicitly violates the sexual rules that place her in physical subordination to the man.

Each one of us in this room is privileged. You have a bed, and you do not go to it hungry. We are not part of those millions of homeless people roaming america today. Your privilege is not a reason for guilt, it is part of your power, to be used in support of those things you say you believe. Because to absorb without use is the gravest error of privilege.