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 Fat shaming and social media


definition:

Fat shaming: the act of criticizing or drawing attention to someone for being overweight, making them feel embarrassed or ashamed. It can lead to depression and anxiety.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fat-shaming



Fat shaming and insulting people for their looks is not a modern matter. With the rise of social networks, this.

The phenomenon has become very widespread. For several decades, the media has been pushing forward unrealistic images of women, but lately, especially with rapid growth, fat-shaming has moved to another level. Anything that deviates from the notion of "conventionally pretty" is presented as a bad example by the media.


"Overweight characters are often the butt of jokes on TV sitcoms," said Crystal Karges, M.S., R.D.N., director of content and social media of Eating Disorder Hope to Healthline. "This makes body shaming the norm."


Fat-shaming not only results in anxiety, reduced self-esteem, or the development of depression. Offensive expression of the other person's physical appearance and ourselves results in the development of various mental illnesses, especially eating disorders.


According to NEDA, in the United States, 20 million women and 10 million men suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder at some time in their lives. These include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, or another specified feeding or eating disorder.


We can notice fat shaming on social networks very often. Just open the comments under the post of an influencer or another public figure.


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https://www.healthline.com/health-news/body-shaming-in-social-media#Obesity-worries-fuel-concerns


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  1. Anastasiia Agopova8. května 2022 v 15:24

    Hi, Veronica,
    Thank you for raising such an important issue as fat shaming. I recently realized that I was under the spell of a third-person effect, thinking that I am definitely open to people of all sizes and shapes presented in media...Until I discovered an ad with a woman of size L in an inflight magazine, I stopped myself midthought, catching the thought that all the models need to be at least size S in the ads. And I am far from being an S size myself or having an L size at this point. What a poignant perception and influence the media has indeed.

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