http://www.about-face.org/removing-disney-fat-shaming-exhibit-doesnt-change-the-message/ Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:05:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.about-face.org/removing-disney-fat-shaming-exhibit-doesnt-change-the-message/#comment-13352 Denise Wed, 02 May 2012 21:49:05 +0000 http://www.about-face.org/?p=10188#comment-13352 Unfortunately, Stacey, as long as society pushes the idea that we all should look like Stepford Wives (and Husbands), with perfect hair, perfect features, perfect skin, perfect figure, and who cares what's on the inside!!, we'll always have this problem. Kudos to Disney for at least taking this down, but whoever came up with this stupid idea should be fired! Don't we have enough girls and women running around starving themselves and taking diet pills and throwing up food because they can't stand the way they look in the mirror? Why does anybody think that this is a good thing? Unfortunately, this is not the first time a commercial espousing "healthy habits" went too far. I remember seeing a commercial on TV once during kids' usual morning viewing time that had a group of kids that took a break from playing soccer to beat up on two fat men that were wearing black sweatsuits with white lettering on them that said things like "CHILDHOOD OBESITY" and "JUVENILE DIABETES". My question is what does that really portray? While no one wants kids to get diabetes and we want them to be healthy, it shouldn't use what appears to be condoning violence against fat people as a good message to hey, kids! get off the couch and exercise! How? By going around and beating up on some fat kid to encourage him to "get healthy"? Plus, it leads to a negative connotation of fat people as being freaks that deserve a good pounding in order to get them to "lose the lard". Yeah! If making fun and shaming isn't going to do it, what makes you think we'd go out there and start jogging if we have to worry about gangs of thin people just waiting around the corner to jump you and beat off those extra pounds? Stupid! Unfortunately, Stacey, as long as society pushes the idea that we all should look like Stepford Wives (and Husbands), with perfect hair, perfect features, perfect skin, perfect figure, and who cares what’s on the inside!!, we’ll always have this problem. Kudos to Disney for at least taking this down, but whoever came up with this stupid idea should be fired! Don’t we have enough girls and women running around starving themselves and taking diet pills and throwing up food because they can’t stand the way they look in the mirror? Why does anybody think that this is a good thing? Unfortunately, this is not the first time a commercial espousing “healthy habits” went too far. I remember seeing a commercial on TV once during kids’ usual morning viewing time that had a group of kids that took a break from playing soccer to beat up on two fat men that were wearing black sweatsuits with white lettering on them that said things like “CHILDHOOD OBESITY” and “JUVENILE DIABETES”. My question is what does that really portray? While no one wants kids to get diabetes and we want them to be healthy, it shouldn’t use what appears to be condoning violence against fat people as a good message to hey, kids! get off the couch and exercise! How? By going around and beating up on some fat kid to encourage him to “get healthy”? Plus, it leads to a negative connotation of fat people as being freaks that deserve a good pounding in order to get them to “lose the lard”. Yeah! If making fun and shaming isn’t going to do it, what makes you think we’d go out there and start jogging if we have to worry about gangs of thin people just waiting around the corner to jump you and beat off those extra pounds? Stupid!

]]> http://www.about-face.org/removing-disney-fat-shaming-exhibit-doesnt-change-the-message/#comment-10453 Stacey Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:27:27 +0000 http://www.about-face.org/?p=10188#comment-10453 I really just can't believe that there wasn't someone, SOMEWHERE along the way who thought that maybe, just maybe, this might be a bad idea. I really just can’t believe that there wasn’t someone, SOMEWHERE along the way who thought that maybe, just maybe, this might be a bad idea.

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