From the Archives: Being overweight is stigmatized in most countries around the world. But does obsessive talk about excess fat lead to weight reduction—or to cruel, useless shaming?
As a child, Mia watched her mother struggle to recover from stomach-stapling surgery. She recalls her mother enduring obvious, miserable pain for years after the weight-loss procedure. Once, after a fruitless effort to comfort her mother during an intense episode of vomiting, Mia asked, “If you had it all to do over again with all of this, would you do it again?” Her mother responded, “Oh yeah, in a heartbeat … because the world hates fat people.
Not only do diverse groups of people express worry over their weight, but in many instances they consider their personal anxieties about weight to be just as important as concerns about economic instability, political chaos, and experiences of violence inside and outside of the household. We have heard many stories about people’s stressful experiences engaging in weight-loss endeavors.
Part of the current stigmatization of excess weight results from health-related messaging. We inhabit a world in which many different stakeholders actively encourage people to work harder and harder to lose weight. In recent years, major national anti-obesity efforts have been launched, including Mexico’s Nuestros Niños Son Primero , New Zealand’s Big Change Starts Small, and Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign in the U.S.
Given the apparent ubiquity of this sense of failure, we expanded our research efforts to see if we could find safe spaces in which people felt good about themselves as they worked to lose weight, even if their weight-loss attempts “failed.” We proposed that online venues such as blogging might provide such a place, since bloggers theoretically have a great deal of control over how they present their bodies and stories.
Bariatric surgeries like Mia’s and her mother’s do bring about pronounced weight loss and allow for a relative escape from everyday discrimination—depending on the amount of weight lost, the degree to which a person is able to maintain the weight-loss, and the amount of stigma individuals experience for choosing bariatric surgery.
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