The Racial Origins of Fat Stigma

CBS News ^

[dixie1202]

Personal preference: I don’t like anorexic looking women. A few extra pounds don’t bother me. Obesity does.

[tinyowl]

This story contains one of the longest 'therefore's' in the history of logic:

"Therefore, they decided to re-articulate racial categories, adding new characteristics, and one of the things that the colonists believed was that Black people were inherently more sensuous, that people love sex and they love food, and so the idea was that Black people had more venereal diseases, and that Black people were inherently obese, because they lack self-control. And of course, self-control and rationality, after the Enlightenment, were characteristics that were deemed integral to Whiteness."

Yeah ... don't think so.

[BenLurkin]

Utterly ridiculous.

[mrsmith]

Sheer lunacy. Intended to please those that CBS’s advertisers want pleased.

What a media!

[SunkenCiv]

I thought Bill Maher was the origin of fat-shaming.

[wac3rd]

This is utter nonsense. Cheap, fattening foods have added guts to people. By-products of success.

[RooRoobird20]

Fine.

Let black women continue to have sh*tty diets, eat too much, not exercise. Let them lumber around, 30 percent plus overweight, with all the health problems caused by obesity.

I just don’t care anymore.

[SunkenCiv]

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• Fat-shaming columnist gets booted from Fergus Falls newspaper [2017]
• France bans unlimited refills of soda drinks to battle bulging obesity levels [2017]
• The Average American Woman Now Weighs as Much as the Average 1960s Man [2015]
• Man beaten up at Little Caesars after calling woman overweight [2015]
• Federal Committee: We Need Fat Interventions At Worksites [2014]
• Shamed, Flamed, Harassed: What It's Like To Be Called Fat Online [2014]
• Athletic Mother of Three Under Fire for Posting This Picture. [2013]

[SauronOfMordor]

The qualities we perceive as adding up as “beauty” are indicators of health. Men are designed to be attracted to healthy, physically fit women in their prime years of fertility.

Neither the anorexic nor the obese are healthy. A woman needs a certain minimum body fat percentage in order to conceive and bear a child. Too much fat is unhealthy too. There is an optimum level.

[truth_seeker]

Abolitionists were white, protestants too.

Shed a lot of blood to help blacks.

You last heard the gratitude for that when?

[doorgunner69]

"Why are White women on diets"

Because white men do not like sweaty fat chicks?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Steatopygia at Wikipedia

[doorgunner69]

Reubens and the guys back then saw fat chicks as a social success statement:

They had the wherewithal to feed the porker as much as she wanted.

[nickcarraway]

True, but then again, the abolitionists were not doing it for gratitude either, but for their deeply held beliefs.

[PghBaldy]

Nothing to do with blacks. People have been making fun of fat people of all colors for centuries. They even made the death of Cass Elliot a joke by lying and saying she chocked to death on a sandwich. She actually died of a heart attack.

[Nifster]

Utter nonsense. Being severely obese is deadly

As to So Cal need to fit an image that ain’t about color it’s about stupidity and pill pushing doctors

[kiryandil]

Covid19 is Raciss.

[alexander_busek]

As the art and fashion historian Anne Hollander wrote in a New York Times article from 1977, "The look of actual human bodies obviously changes very little through history. But the look of ideal bodies changes a great deal all the time."

I challenge Ms. Hollander to view a photograph of any typical street scene in the America of 1977, and compare it with one of 2020 - with regards to the body type / "heaviness" of the pedestrians. The contrast is stunning.

Here in Germany, I can spot fellow Americans a quarter of a mile away on the street - because of their high Body-Mass Index.

Regards,