In the article “Fat Acceptance : A Basic Primer” by Cynara Geissler published in Gee Magazine 2010, she takes on the popular culture around fatness negativity into which she had herself become immersed and eventually emancipated from it. She advocates for a perspective which is centred on the Fat Acceptance Movement ideology: that ones self images and locus of attention and motivation ought not to be ones body size but rather other aspirational ideas. Geissler in building her argument reviews elements of popular culture which she finds contrary, and she does to through a review of the critics of the Fat Acceptance movement and relating her personal struggle with fat. In particular she questions the nexus between ‘shame and motivation’ and
" The primary thing shown, is that fatness is a bad, temporary thing that leaves people forever traumatized. Negative characteristics of the character sends the very untrue message that all fat people are or should be ashamed to be that way, and do their best to shrink down their bodies as fast as
Fat acceptance: A basic primer Critique essay Cynara Geissler’s article “Fat Acceptance: A Basic Primer” was first published in Geez Magazine in 2013. Geissler addresses a lot of issues about fat acceptance and how it is affecting our society and people’s attitudes towards over-weight people. One of the reasons why Geissler thinks that is because many health industries now days have a slogan “Thinner is better” and that makes over-weight people seem lazy or just not willing to put the effort to become better. Most importantly Geissler mentions that health industries and causing people to make a negative attitude towards overweight people which can be seen.
It has been shown that palpable evidence of how fat-talk makes you feel can illustrate the negative impacts on one’s health. This will in turn help one consider the risks and benefits of continuing fat-talk, while further clarifying the role that it plays in your life and how to change your behavior (Royal,
Mary Ray Worley, member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), author of “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance,” represents the fat community to convey the biases they feel on a daily basis. She argues that everyone should embrace their size and love themselves for who they are, not the weight they carry. Worley’s article is highlighted by her use of diction, logical fallacies, and her constant relation to her personal life. However, with the excessive use of some of these techniques, she begins to create a divide in her audience between those who are overweight and the rest of the readers. To begin, Worley contends that today’s society is too negative and judgemental when it comes to overweight people.
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Some cartoons are for entertainment and others try to evoke emotions connecting you to the illustrator. The cartoon tackles both of these at once, taking a sensible and serious concern in society and making it seem ridiculous. This satirical cartoon criticizes the serious concern in today’s society – obesity. The view taken from the illustrator is that it is a ridiculous problem made famous by the obese populations’ stubborn attitudes, and their complete reluctance to make a change in their lives for better health. The further you dig into this satirical cartoon, the more you understand the effort that was put into making this an extremely sophisticated illustration.
Obesity remains a growing epidemic that affects people who continually overindulge, causing weight gain which affects many countries and communities around the world especially the United States. During the last couple decade obesity has doubled and threatened people 's health because of adverse habits of overeating. Due to the advancement of mobile technology, fewer individuals perform physical labor. Instead, many people work from a computer where they spend long hours sitting at a desk consuming junk food non-physicality activity that leads to obesity. Consequently, some of the expense to the community regarding how obesity occurs causing medical complications of diabetes, heart attacks, and high blood pressure which produce expense on the economy.
Courage, what is courage? Well from the dictionary the word courage means "the ability to do something that frightens one and strength in the face of pain or grief”. Courage is something that people display in their everyday life, you see courage on the streets, at school and maybe even at home but you probably never even notice it or even thought about it. The book Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes was written by Chris Crutcher, this book is filled with courageousness, mystery and spine chilling events.
Every individual is different and unique in their own way, may it be their body size or the color of their skin. No individual is similar, which is precisely the point that Cheryl Peck makes in her essay “Fatso”. The essay portrays Peck’s view of the conflicts that she goes through in her life as an overweight person. She makes a point by point contrast to her imaginary life, repeating the phrase “I have never”, and her real life where she faces discrimination because of her weight. Peck’s use of tone and word choice highlights the purpose of her essay, which is to raise awareness about discrimination against overweight people to audiences who are thin and have not experienced any judgment from others.
“In the past, eating disorders were generally considered to be confined to young white females from middle-to-upper class families living in Western societies” (Caradas 112). Both studies exploit the false stereotypes associated with eating disorders and culture. Both parties believe that non Western cultures are being influenced by the “slim is beautiful” idea. Each view points out the false misconception that non Western cultures traditional ideas of being thick is related to health is protecting them from eating disorders. Studies prove all ethnicities have shown concern towards body shape and eating attitudes in recent years around the
Men and women nowadays are starting to lose self-confidence in themselves and their body shape, which is negatively impacting the definition of how beauty and body shape are portrayed. “...97% of all women who had participated in a recent poll by Glamour magazine were self-deprecating about their body image at least once during their lives”(Lin 102). Studies have shown that women who occupy most of their time worrying about body image tend to have an eating disorder and distress which impairs the quality of life. Body image issues have recently started to become a problem in today’s society because of social media, magazines, and television.
In “The Globalization of Eating Disorders”, written by Susan Bordo in 2003, the author declares that eating and body disorders have increased rapidly throughout the entire globe. Susan Bordo, attended Carleton University as well as the State University of New York, is a modern feminist philosopher who is very well known for her contributions to the field of cultural studies, especially in ‘body studies’ which grants her the credibility to discuss this rising global issue (www.wikipedia.org, 2015). She was correspondingly a professor of English and Women Studies at the University of Kentucky which gives her the authority to write this article. “The Globalization of Eating Disorders” is written as a preface to her Pulitzer Price-nominated book “Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body” which was similarly written in 2003. Through the use of many logical arguments and evidence, Bordo successfully manages to convince her audience that the media, body images and culture have severely influenced the ‘so-called’ trending standard of beauty and how it leads to eating disorders across the world.
From an early age, we are exposed to the western culture of the “thin-ideal” and that looks matter (Shapiro 9). Images on modern television spend countless hours telling us to lose weight, be thin and beautiful. Often, television portrays the thin women as successful and powerful whereas the overweight characters are portrayed as “lazy” and the one with no friends (“The Media”). Furthermore, most images we see on the media are heavily edited and airbrushed
Gay's body does not conform to the societal ideal, and she faces constant ridicule, shaming, and discrimination. Gay notes that “[She has] a presence… [She] take[s] up space” (Gay 13). Society associates thinness with discipline, control, and success, while fatness is seen as a failure, lack of willpower, and lack of self-control. This expectation is not only damaging to women's physical health but also to their mental and emotional well-being.
“The Shame of Fat shaming”, was written from an unbiased third person point of view. With this, author Gina Kolata was able to present a list of facts in a formal matter. She used Donald Trump as an example of people apart of popular culture (leaders) practice fat shaming. The purpose of this article was to explain the negativity caused and towards fat shaming; fat shaming and obesity is very high in America but, prevalent worldwide. Article two provides more detail on the issue of fat shaming.