2024-07-31 09:00:18
Summer is the time when the bodies are more exposed and therefore the aversions to them. The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya has analyzed the keys to microfatphobia, which is a socially legitimized criticism of fatphobia. To release these negative habits, Professor Andrea Arrollo recommends neutralizing the body.
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The rejection of fat cells by microfatphobia can increase in the summer because there is greater exposure. This causes great fear on the part of the population when it comes time to bathe in beaches and pools.
For this reason, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) investigates the social and personal source of microfatphobia and considers the protection of body diversity as a measure of resistance to fatphobia that is starting to be fought in schools.
La gordophobia
According to the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, fatphobia is understood as the oppression that applies to people who do not fit the social standards of the body norm.
Fatphobia has its sources in sequence social and personal factorswhich comes from the ideal of being thin to the frustration of not being able to get the bodies they want or think they want, influenced by advertising, cinema and culture.
“Socially there are a series of limiting and distorting the belief associated with thick or fat body having to be different to those who are not thick or not fat, and they are negative beliefs that do not favor the acceptance of bodies,” he pointed out. Andrea Arrollo, associate professor of Health Sciences of the UOC.
Experts in eating disorders agree that the defense of body diversity is controversial and that is why fatphobes take advantage of this defense to pretend that what we are defending is actually obesity.
UOC’s strategy is to define what fatphobia is and investigate how it is expressed through everyday behaviors (microfatphobia).
Microgordophobia
Microfatphobias are socially justified fatphobia practices that manifest in a series of aversions.
Amalia Gordóvil, associate professor of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the UOC y Ferran Giménez, professor of Psychology and Educational Sciences from the same university lists many of the following behaviors:
- Fat people are not attractive.
- They do not have an active sex life.
- They are not successful personally or at work.
- All overweight people eat poorly or have bad health habits.
- They are lazy and don’t make an effort.
- They are like this because they want to.
- The word fat or fat itself has a pejorative tone: not an attitude, but an insult.
- In men, obesity is associated with obesity; In women, it is associated with bad eating.
All of these behaviors broadcast the message in society that strong bodies must be fought. Him ideal thinness is encouraged to the point of Defense of physical diversity is seen as a defense of obesity.
“Two rules are confused here: one thing is that we accept that there are different bodies and that all of them have to be normal and that each body is wrong, and the other thing is that we accept obesity and we do nothing to face it,” explains Andrea Arrollo.
He added: “They are taking advantage of the situation, because they are two different things. Bodies may be different, but it’s another thing for you to sit back and do something to fight obesity.which is an excess fat that is scientifically proven to have health consequences,”
Uncertain body
In an environment where society imposes beauty canons based on certain exceptions based on genetics, filters and cosmetic surgery, a large part of the population has adopted this ideal of beauty. However, he didn’t notice that It is an unattainable goal and it has little to do with health and wellness.
“The bikini activity has a valuable financial and economic purpose that does not consider any kind of health requirements. What favors is food mentality and behaviors that can be very disruptive, or directly dangerous behaviors, such as excessive restriction or strong foods, which put health at risk,” criticized the professor.
How to protect children from fatphobia?
Like other types of discrimination based on physical or aesthetic reasons, the problem with fatphobia is that it is hard particularly affected to children and young people.
Therefore, the UOC emphasizing the importance of friend of the health teachers who work with them strengthen your self-esteem and achieve your own self-esteem through physical neutrality and self-acceptance.
They are also taught to ignore such words that hurt them, whether voluntary or unconscious, and to appreciate themselves for who they are, not what they look like. This message is extended by experts to any person, regardless of their body shape, since Perfection is an impossible ideal that only creates sadness and does not allow you to enjoy liferemember the UOC professors.
“It is very difficult to prevent someone from causing a negative or fat effect on you, but we can work with that person so that they do not stop doing anything in their life, or that these kinds of social facts cannot affect them and they can influence them. protect themselves or have as little influence as possible,” the expert concluded.
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