The Stereotypes Of Fat Women

In society, most women as well as men, are overweight. We should teach people to love themselves and accept who they are. If they don’t then do something to change it, but do it the right way.

In the chapter The Adoption and Management of a “Fat” Identity, Douglas Degher and Gerald Hughes analyze how the reality of people that are overweight changes. “Obese people are fat first, and only secondary are seen as possessing ancillary characteristics.”(Degher and Hughes p.265). In today's society being overweight or not having the ideal body being portrayed by the media is usually considered as unhealthy. As a consequence, pharmaceutical drugs are being created daily to help reduce weight, workout dvds are being produced daily, and clothes keeps getting reduced and limited so that overweight people have a hard time finding something that fits them and that they like. In the eyes of countless individuals, being fat is considered deviant

In “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance” by Mary Ray Worley, a member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (or NAAFA), analyzes the stigmatization of fat people in our society. With the use of both personal experiences and facts, Worley portrays the effects of this social stigmatization on fat people, in comparison to the actual realities of the issue.

Whether it is dieting, exercising or breaking mental barriers, there are numerous amounts of arguments on how to lose weight. Mary Ray Worley, a member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), takes a unique path to challenge the ideas of fat people and weight loss. In her piece “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance,” Worley provides

Obesity has become an epidemic across the United States. Americans have continued to gain weight, increasing the amount of people that are considered obese by millions every few years. More and more experts have come to a consensus: weight needs to be addressed and changed in America. Many experts, however, have not found a way to completely solve this problem at large. In the article, “Rethinking Weight”, senior writer Amanda Spake directs attention to the barriers our society has built for obesity treatment. Through this attention, it becomes evident these barriers have developed from the changing ideals in our society. Roberta Seid, a lecturer at the University of Southern California, argues in “Too “Close to the Bone”: The Historical Context for Women’s Obsession with Slenderness” how our body ideals have changed the way our society views obesity. Both authors emphasize the problem our society faces with obesity becoming an epidemic, and how that needs to be changed so our society can live happier and healthier lives. Although both authors are achieving the same point, Spake concludes that obesity has stemmed from pharmaceutical problems and biological factors, while Seid holds that obesity has come from the changing fashion and body ideals in our society. By reading both articles in conjunction, it becomes clear that the root of this problem is our societal issues, obesity has become an epidemic because of the way our society neglects obesity from all aspects.

Based on background information, a central hypothesis was developed that obesity is an ongoing, gendered and embodied cultural process that has harmful consequences for the obese individual (e.g. Harjunen, 2002&2003). The various social implications of obesity will be explored via interviews (with obese people or former obese people) conducted and the surveys taken of people in the Boston area.

“How are fat bodies discriminated against, how do fat people feel about their bodies and their weight-loss efforts, what their experiences of moving around in space and place?” (Lupton, 2013, p. 67)

Nowadays it’s hard to impress someone with inequality issues, we all aware of the existing of discrimination by racial, economic, gender, age factors, etc. Even in our seemingly progress society with its freedom of speech and equal rights, there is persistent disproportion in power distribution. One group of people always have some advantages over another. White over black, 1% over 99%, men over women. The latter is particularly disturbing since it’s so ubiquitous and really calls the essence of such order, that men power for most of us is unquestionable innate characteristic. Why even bother to doubt men dominance since it’s been this way for generations, in almost every known society and civilization. The surrounding environment helps us

Epidemics of any scale have both threatened the Earth’s people and frightened them in ways unfathomable. Whether it be a global outbreak of swine flu or an isolated incident of a cold in a small village they all shake the community on some level. But imagine an epidemic that people willingly promote the growth of an outbreak, one that is being pushed on a national scale to everyone on every social and economic tier. Obesity has been viewed as a social epidemic and is even noted to have a serious rate of infection through the connection of social networks. The Fat Acceptance Movement, or FAM, has been the main sponsor of this epidemic by claiming it’s acceptable to be obese despite the evidence that’s stacked against their claims. Obesity acceptance needs to be stopped as it is a slow suicide for the obese, and hurts the nation as a whole overall through social distraught and secondary economic misfortune, in the sense that everyone loses in some way.

In society, today being fat is frowned upon because you don’t have the "look" that people want to see. This causes many problems to be surfaced. Skinny and fat girls feel as though they aren’t skinny enough, so they harm their bodies. This representation matters because everyone struggles with weight. We shouldn't care what people look like, we should care about the knowledge they obtain.

There are many different things that women may be shamed for. Shaming is used to make specific people feel guilty and mortified about their own actions. It is people trying to cause pain in others. It also is an attempt to change other people’s individual personalities and natural behaviors. People should be trying to bring out other’s natural ways and unique personalities, not trying to make them feel horrible about who they are. Shaming comes in several varying packages; there is slut shaming, mom shaming, body shaming, and many more. The three mentioned are the most common types of shaming within women.

The website article by Lesley Kinzel strongly disagrees with the idea of shaming obesity. Kinzel says that shaming happens to everyone. She believes in taking action by saying shame is a motivator at first and then saying “It doesn’t work, though – shame is not a catalyst for change; it is a paralytic” (Kinzel). Shame needs to be dealt with at the time it is first introduced; the problem does not need to be increased more than it already has. It doesn’t need to be overlooked again and again. As said before, shame can’t always be the motivator, and people with shame of themselves do not do anything about it. They feel like they cannot do anything to make the situation better. Kinzel argues that society needs to find ways to motivate the obese people into fixing their health problems. She says you can’t judge people just by their looks and size. When a person is trying to please society around them rather than trying to

In her article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance," Mary Ray Worley claims society believes "thinness signals self-discipline and self-respect," whereas fatness signals the lack thereof (Worley 163). Worley, however, argues that it is possible to be happy with your body regardless of size. Her belief was strengthened after visiting the annual convention of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). She explains that her experience at the convention was similar to visiting another planet: at this convention were stylish, flattering clothes for fat people to wear confidently, a talent show for those who had been overlooked because of their size, and a speaker who spoke out against the medical and scientific communities’ take on fatness--all

Most of the people cannot accept themselves to be fat, especially female. Fat people experience prejudice that is part with racism and sexism. Also the statistical data documents indicated that fat people are faced with oppressive bias in economic, educational, medical and social spaces. According to CNN report, Donald Trump had a speech debating on the is it ok to be fat. Trump points out that not only female will meet this fat situation, male did too. However, the editor did not totally agree what Trump said with the un-serious tone since she think that impact to many American which counts as bully. According another two articles in Psychology Today site, one is “Why Do Women Hate and Fear Sexy Women?”, and another is about “Your

Thicker women face discrimination and pressures from society and their peers to lose weight because their bodies types are perceived as unhealthy this is the relative idea Beth MacInnis shared in “Fat Oppression”  in Consuming Passions. MacInnis discusses the health risk associated with weight loss and the misconception thicker women are unhealthy because of their body sizes. She points out that having a bigger body other than being thin the ideal beauty standard is seen as being unhealthy but for those women to lose weights by means that are risky and are shown to be unhealthy in her research. In simpler terms MacInnis is pointing out the hypocrisy in the idea that not being thin is unhealthy but for women that aren’t skinny face actual unhealthy and unethical means to lose weight.