{"id":108778,"date":"2022-06-09T01:53:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T05:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=108778"},"modified":"2022-06-09T01:53:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T05:53:17","slug":"americas-celebration-of-obesity-was-born-and-bred-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/americas-celebration-of-obesity-was-born-and-bred-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s celebration of obesity was born and bred on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANALYSIS: <em>For the record, being excessively overweight is unhealthy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Psychologist Jordan Peterson recently received massive <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/19\/yumi-nu-responds-to-jordan-peterson-over-sports-illustrated-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">backlash<\/a> for a tweet criticizing plus-size model Yumi Nu&#8217;s <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em> cover, so much so that he quasi-quit Twitter over it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that,&#8221; the former professor had tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, it was a poorly worded tweet. But his inarticulate message remains valid; that obesity should not be celebrated no matter what the wokescolds force upon us.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, being excessively overweight is unhealthy. This should not be a shocking statement, but in today&#8217;s &#8220;men can be women&#8221; world, apparently it is. The left&#8217;s war on objective reality has infected beauty norms and health guidelines, consequences be damned.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yumi Nu (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_yumi_nu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@_yumi_nu<\/a>) is on the cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SISwim22?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SISwim22<\/a> after making her debut in the magazine last year. <\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t wait to see what\u2019s next! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tXpz3N3IO8\">https:\/\/t.co\/tXpz3N3IO8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UGFtKUjK6l\">pic.twitter.com\/UGFtKUjK6l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sports Illustrated Swimsuit (@SI_Swimsuit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SI_Swimsuit\/status\/1526280097430372352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But when &#8212; and how &#8212; did we get here? Enter the American college campus. It was there the argument that telling someone they are overweight is &#8220;body shaming&#8221; took hold. Studies found that overweight students face discrimination, morphing into campus workshops on &#8220;fat shaming&#8221; and &#8220;fatphobia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the Organization for Campus Women at UW-La Crosse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/university-event-to-tackle-fatphobia-fat-shaming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hosted<\/a> \u201cNo more Apologies: Fatphobia, Body Positivity and Social Justice.&#8221; Also that year, USC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/student-groups-body-love-month-offers-eco-period-party-scale-smashing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hosted<\/a> a \u201cbody love fair.&#8221; Students were treated to donuts, boba and &#8220;self-lovin\u2019 vibes.\u201d Attendees released their anger through a &#8220;scale smashing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Harvard University students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/harvard-hosts-anal-sex-101-oral-sex-101-and-fatphobia-workshops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held<\/a> a \u201cBody Positivity: Fatphobia and Liberation&#8221; workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Fat studies also took off.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twofatprofessors.com\/\">Two Fat Professors&#8221;:<\/a> sociologist Laurie Cooper Stoll and English professor Darci Thoune of the University of Wisconsin \u2013 La Crosse. Their website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/meet-the-two-professors-leading-the-way-in-fat-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">states<\/a> the academics are \u201cfighting fatphobia with education, community-building and a lot of sass,&#8221; and they posit the voices of obese individuals are absent or sidelined in contemporary research on obesity and health.<\/p>\n<p>Another sociology professor even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/sociology-professor-fat-phobia-is-rooted-in-anti-blackness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">links<\/a>\u00a0fatphobia with anti-blackness. &#8220;We cannot deny the fact that fat-phobia is rooted in anti-Blackness. That\u2019s simply an historical reality,&#8221; said Sabrina Strings, a\u00a0professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine and author of the 2019 book \u201cFearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat-Phobia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A professor at Iowa State University is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/professor-works-to-advance-fat-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">working<\/a> to advance a concept called \u201cfat justice.&#8221; TJ Stewart, assistant professor in the School of Education at Iowa State, is known in academic circles for research focused on \u201cstigmatized identities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last summer, the University of Louisville <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/med-school-to-host-body-terrorism-on-fat-lgbtq-people-seminar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hosted<\/a> an event titled \u201cThe Intersection of Fatphobia and LGBTQ+ Health.\u201d It aimed to identify \u201cbest practices to reduce the harm experienced by fat LGBTQ+ patients in healthcare settings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Consider that amid the recent COVID pandemic &#8212; during which it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/why-covid-19-more-deadly-people-obesity-even-if-theyre-young\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statistically proven<\/a> that the virus is more deadly in people with obesity &#8212; there was very little talk of losing weight as an important factor in fighting the disease longterm.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to fathom that not hurting people&#8217;s feelings has trumped saving their lives, but that&#8217;s where we are at in America today. The public health establishment has allowed the left&#8217;s normalization of obesity to take hold rather than calling on people to eat less and exercise more.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another destructive trend we can trace back to the campus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/colorado-colleges-healthy-lifestyle-programs-body-shame-student-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado College\u2019s healthy lifestyle programs body shame, student says<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Alona Siniehina \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, being excessively overweight is unhealthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":683,"featured_media":108791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367],"tags":[10413,6397,27750,27749],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Fatshamingbodypositivity.Alona_Siniehina.Shutterstock.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-siu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108778"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108796,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108778\/revisions\/108796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}