#fatisnotafeeling

[flormora]

Piel, Serie Dismorfa, 2021

Proceso de obra 

[donnettawilliams]

There’s a big difference... fat does not equal Ugly 👍🏾🙌🏾♥️😂 #tiktok #biggirlsrock #fatisbeautiful #fatisnotafeeling #fatisnotugly https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm91fZJAPjL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15ep695ms5si9

[randomshitnthings]

Going to

Throw out the scales again- hopefully for the last time!

[theroadtorecoveryy]

Slowly but surely. #neededmotivation #feelingfat #fatisnotafeeling #gymhereicome

[profeminist]

Here’s Facebook official response to the petition.

[socialmedialife-it]

"Fat is not a feeling!"

Leggi l'articolo su http://www.socialmedialife.it/news/facebook-news/grasso-non-e-un-sentimento/

[auraruby]

Recientemente un grupo de mujeres comenzaron la campaña #FatisNotaFeeling, para remover el #emoticon FAT/GORDA de Facebook a traves del sitio change.org. Es cierto que cuando comemos mucho, nos sentimos gordos (me ha pasado)... Pero esta petición no fue realizada por un chiste, fue realizada por mujeres que sienten que este emoticon puede ser perjudicial para personas con desordenes alimenticios. La petición fue firmada por casi 17.000 personas al rededor del mundo, logrando una respuesta positiva de Facebook y adicional a eso la eliminación del emoticon que hacia referencia a sentirse FEA. ¿Qué opinan de esta noticia?

[orlandosentinel]

Good news! Fat is NOT a feeling

Facebook has changed its "fat" emoji to "stuffed" following a petition started by the group Endangered Bodies and 24-year-old Catherine Weingarten.

[proud2bmeus]

Victory! Fat is NOT a Feeling! By Catherine Weingarten

For about four years now I have been involved in the body positivity activist community and have worked with such activist organizations as Realize Your Beauty Inc, the National Eating Disorders Association, Proud2BMe, and Caroline Rothstein.

A few weeks ago I got an email from Stacey, the head of RYB, where I am currently the resident playwright and board member, about getting involved with an awesome change.org petition about a body negative facebook emoticon.

We were responding to how you could choose “fat” and “ugly” as feelings on facebook. If you were “feeling fat,” you would see an emoticon of a full-faced smiley with a double chin and if were are “feeling ugly,” you would see an emoticon of a smiley with a Groucho Marx-like face i.e. glasses, heavy eyebrows, and a large nose.

The petition was a collaboration between me and Endangered Bodies, an incredible global activist group that promotes positive body image in the media.  For this petition they had young activists from across the world encourage their networks to pressure facebook to remove the “fat” emoticon.

As a young activist, I feel like I have a strong idea about the impact social media has on my generation.  Facebook has become another world where people can share their accomplishments, stay in touch and tell us how they are feeling.  But this emoticon promoted the idea that “fat” and “ugly” are actual feelings, and not descriptor words that people can call you.

There are so many young people struggling with eating disorders and self-hatred about how they look, and this emoticon promoted those negative feelings. Our bodies should be respected and loved, not something that should be online fodder.

I want to grow up in a world where people encourage young women to pursue their dreams and creativity, not just lose weight and get “prettier.”  As a young person, I felt so much pressure to seek validation for my looks, and now that I have become a member of this incredibly supportive body positive community, I don’t need that any more.

I am currently a playwriting graduate student at Ohio University and the encouragement I look for now comes from someone seeing my work and saying it “did it for them” or that they “like theater slightly better now.”  When I was younger I couldn’t have imagined doing something so exciting like this, because all I could focus on was losing weight.

I feel so excited that I was able to share my story. As an activist, sometimes you feel like you are being overdramatic or that your story does not deserve to be heard, but this petition really upped my confidence and showed me that I can make a difference.

Facebook has officially  responded to the petition and its 16K+ supporters by removing the "I feel fat" emoticon from its list of options! This is the first step towards continuing a dialogue with Facebook to support their efforts in being a body-positive platform, leading the way for other social media sites to follow suit.

When I fought for this petition I kept thinking about all the young people I talked to on the helplines when I was a NEDA helpline intern and how girls as young as 11 would call me to talk about how they felt fat/were on a diet. I hope the success of this petition can show them that they are beautiful and that they don’t have to think/talk like that.  We are more than how we look.  We as young women have more important things to feel/think about than that!

What do you guys think about this petition?  Have you seen someone use the “fat” emoticon?  How has social media use changed the way you looked at your body?

About this blogger: Catherine is an MFA student in playwriting at Ohio University. She was a previous NEDA helpline volunteer and is also the playwright in residence for Realize Your Beauty, an AWESOME org which uses theater arts to promote body positive for kids. Her fave dessert is high class coconut cake. She has written lots of trashy short plays with equally trashy titles like “Hot Santa” or “You Looked Hot when You Stole that Dress from Walmart.”

Also by Catherine:

Glee's Harmful Portrayal of Eating Disorders

Lena Dunham is Totally My Girlspiration

Stepping Off the Treadmill: How I Discovered What Healthy Exercise Feels Like

I'm Years from Motherhood and Already Sick of Post-Baby Weight Loss Stories

[benningtonalumnirelations]

It can trivialize people's experiences, or encourage people to put out body-negative ideas and have other people validate that

Catherine Weingarten '13, sourced from The Daily Dot

Catherine Weingarten '13 is leading a Change.org petition, in partnership with Endangered Bodies, to remove the "feeling fat" emoji from Facebook to promote body positivity. Her petition has become a sensation, bringing valuable attention to the dangerous impact of body shaming and has lead Facebook to remove the emoji from their website. Congratulations to Catherine for successfully petitioning for a change!  Catherine is currently a Playwriting MFA candidate at Ohio University. 

[notareschi]

A young Australian woman is spearheading a global campaign petitioning Facebook to remove 'body shaming' emoticons and status options from the social media site. Rebecca Guzelian, along with seven other women around the world, has partnered with Endangered Bodies, an international movement challenging body image standards, to launch a campaign to remove the ‘I feel fat’ and ‘I feel ugly’ emoticons from the social media site. Ms Guzelian, a counsellor and intern psychologist, is one of over ten thousand people to back the 'Fat is not a feeling' petition, and claims that the options perpetuate and normalise body shaming, especially in young people.

[twixly]

Online petition urges Facebook to remove 'fat' emoji from status updates

A group of body-image activists are circulating an online petition that asks Facebook to remove a "feeling fat" status and emoji from status-update options.

The Change.org petition has amassed more than 14,000 signatures so far, and sparked a debate over whether the social network is promoting body-shaming.

"Feeling fat" currently appears as one of many preset options included in Facebook's dropdown list of status updates. Endangered Bodies, the group behind the initiative, want the status and accompanying emoji removed because they believe it encourages body-shaming and "self-destructive thoughts."

"When Facebook users set their status to 'feeling fat,' they are making fun of people who consider themselves to be overweight, which can include many people with eating disorders," according to the petition. "That is not OK. Fat is not a feeling. Fat is a natural part of our bodies, no matter their weight. And all bodies deserve to be respected and cared for."

The two-week-old petition has 14,346 signatures as of this writing, just several hundred short of its 15,000 goal. On Twitter, the hashtag #fatisnotafeeling is also being used by people who are upset by the status option.

In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson told Mashable on Saturday that it offers more than 100 preset feelings based on user input:

People use Facebook to share their feelings with friends and support each other. One option we give people to express themselves is to add a feeling to their posts. You can choose from over 100 feelings we offer based on people’s input or create your own. 

The social network provides resources to users who are concerned that a friend may have an eating disorder, in a dedicated help page on the topic. Facebook says it works with the National Eating Disorders Association to provide relevant information.

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[mickeystran9e]

I get the best comments on my post. Mostly ones I agree with.

@fatisnotafeeling

[katielatie25]

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[cuerposenpeligro]

Me siento..... ¿gorda?

¡Me siento gorda!

Así decía muchos días, no tenía que ver con mi estado corporal, tampoco con lo que había comido.   Se manifestaba como una sensación difusa de cansancio, combinada con baja energía y necesidad de dormir más y de comer.   En los días que me sentía así , el tren de pensamiento era el siguiente:   “Me siento gorda” = “Nadie me debe ver” = “Estoy fea y soy inútil” 

Todos estos  pensamientos matizados por “Deberías no sentirte así”, “Si fueras delgada esto no te sucedería”, y coronados por la culpa de sentirme una persona no deseable y poco productiva.  Todo esto se aliviaba por momentos dándome un gran atracón y luego resolviendo que al día siguiente me iba a poner a dieta y todo se iba a resolver.  En ese periodo esa era mi solución universal.  Me llevó muchas horas terapia y trabajo emocional encontrar que lo que había en el fondo de ese “Me siento gorda”.   Esa sensación difusa enmascaraba  muchas otras necesidades, que al negarlas y disfrazarlas de “gordura” se habían quedado ahí, depositadas, esperando satisfacción.   Ese “Me siento gorda” cubría un abanico de sentimientos que yo había querido resolver con mi ya conocido.  “Hoy me atraco y mañana empiezo la dieta”  entre los que generalmente se encontraban:  cansancio, necesidad de soledad e introspección, tristeza, miedo y enojo.  

Cuando empecé a trabajar con cada uno de ellos me di cuenta de los mensajes tan valiosos que estos portaban.   Estas emociones me estaban alertando sobre mi lugar en la vida, me estaban diciendo:  “Ve más despacio”, “Ten cuidado”, “Este no es tu lugar”; y yo en vez de oír sus mensajes les ponía a todo la etiqueta de “gordura” e imaginaba que me sentía así por estar pasada de peso.

Es muy común que en la práctica terapéutica lleguen conmigo personas diciéndome lo mismo:  “Me siento gorda”  Han aprendido a manejar su vida emocional mediante este estado corporal al igual que yo lo hacía.  Esto no es gratuito:  la gordura se ha asociado a cualidades tales como flojo, sucio, feo, solo, asexual.  Mientras que la delgadez se le ha asociado a belleza, energía, limpieza, productividad

Es así como hemos asociado estados de ánimo positivos con delgadez e incómodos con gordura.  El peligro es que todos los estados emocionales (aun los incómodos)  nos están informando sobre nosotros mismos y sobre nuestro entorno y si no los atendemos no podemos hacer los cambios correspondientes.   Y no…. Por más que nos lo han vendido hasta el cansancio, no desaparecen cuando  adelgazas o cambias tu cuerpo.

Facebook incorporó en su menú como sentimientos “gord@” y “fe@”.  En buen plan ¿Qué están pensando?   En Endangered Bodies hemos iniciado una campaña para solicitar a Facebook retire estos emoticones del menú.   Esta campaña está en varios países:  

Argentina: change.org/gordanoesunsentimiento Australia: change.org/fatisnotafeelingAU Reino Unido: change.org/fatisnotafeelingUK E.U. A. : change.org/fatisnotafeeling Alemania : https://www.change.org/p/fettistkeingefuehl Brasil: change.org/gordanaoesentimento Colombia: change.org/gordanoesunsentimientoCO

y por supuesto en México

 change.org/gordanoessentimiento

Al calificar la gordura como sentimiento estamos impidiendo que las personas vean más allá para encontrar sus verdaderas emociones y necesidades.  Por otra parte se está mandando el mensaje de que el bajar de peso o abstenerse de comer es la solución universal para el manejo de la vida emocional.   ¡Ya basta!

(imagen hecha por Mizheel Murray la portavoz de México)

Erika Vértiz. 

Psicoterapeuta

[makeupmichifashion]

Umm just letting you know "fat" is not a feeling. #thankyoureasonsforteachingmethat #facebook #fatisnotafeeling #recovery #eatingdisorders