{"id":297,"date":"2015-10-06T21:19:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T01:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/?p=297"},"modified":"2015-10-06T21:23:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T01:23:39","slug":"weight-stigma-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/weight-stigma-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight Stigma in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past week, my classmates and I\u00a0watched the movie Real Women Have Curves<\/em> (2002) starring America Ferrera and learned about weight stigma. Throughout the entire movie, the female protagonist, Ana Garcia (played by America Ferrera),\u00a0is always being\u00a0ridiculed and verbally abused by her mother, Carmen. Ana’s mother would always call her fat and say\u00a0that she was ugly. Carmen always insisted that the only way Ana would become beautiful and\u00a0get\u00a0a guy to\u00a0like her\u00a0is if she loses a lot of weight. Watching this movie and learning about weight stigma this past week\u00a0in class has altered the way I view this topic. One of the things that I learned\u00a0is that in today’s society people who are overweight are referred to as lazy, ugly, and emotionally disturbed. Overwieght people have issues that sometimes might not even be their faults. It is not right for people to judge someone based on their appearance. We as a society must judge people by who they are and not by how much they weigh. I know the phrases “its on the inside that matters” or “she is\u00a0beautiful on the outside, but ugly on the outside” are clich\u00e9. Even\u00a0though that may be, these phrases are true and\u00a0we must judge everyone based\u00a0on\u00a0their actions and not their appearances; we must also work as a society to overcome negative stereotypes about overweight and other people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past week, my classmates and I\u00a0watched the movie Real Women Have Curves (2002) starring America Ferrera and learned about weight stigma. Throughout the entire movie, the female protagonist, Ana Garcia (played by America Ferrera),\u00a0is always being\u00a0ridiculed and verbally abused … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-social-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/citizen-appetites\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}