Society And Fat Acceptance Analysis

Weight is huge in today’s world, whether it be being overweight or underweight, society has its rolls and takes on the subject matter. Some are thick and ashamed; some are thin and ashamed; some are thick and happy; others are thin and happy, and these varieties are due to the way society sees people. Physically and emotionally, some are accepting of their weight while others strive to be a different weight, and this all ties into the role of society and how it portrays body image. Whether it be being accepting of one’s weight, or striving to be a completely different weight, society affects all body types in different ways. How do society outlooks play a role in the way people want themselves to physically feel, or appear to others and themselves, whether it be accepting their thick bodies or thriving to appear how social media portrays people? Society highly affects the way people think they should look, and also encourages some to change their outlooks on weight.
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One view being overweight, yet accepting of it, and disregarding how society makes it out to be. In Mary Ray Worley’s article, “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance,” she addresses how she accepts her fat body and is proud of the way she looks. She goes into detail about how accepting she is, and even discusses overweight people belly dancing at a convention she attended (Worley 164). This convention changed her perspective on accepting her weight due to the many other overweight people there and how they all loved their bodies and did not think twice about what others thought about them (Worley