Obesity has become a topic of concern, especially in today’s youth, and there are those who want to solve it and those who want to promote self-love. An organization in Georgia believes fat-shaming will be the solution, which caused the two authors to write their articles on the subject. The two opposing sides are Chris Friend, who is a writer for The Philly post, and Lesley Kinzel who writes for Xojane.com. In the article “Solve America’s Obesity Problem with Shame” Chris Friend see’s fat-shaming as a solution. The opposing article “What’s Wrong with Fat-Shaming?” Lesley Kinzel believes fat-shaming will only cause harm. In comparing the two articles they would disagree on a lot of reasons why or why not fat shaming should be used as the solution
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Kinzel writes there are plenty of factor going into play when you shame a fat person, factors unknown to the one doing the shaming. She believes if one shames someone else for being fat they are just restricting them from being the best person they can be. In her article, she states “The only thing you can tell for sure by looking at a fat person is the degree of your own bias against fat people.” (Kinzel, 11) Kinzel feels strongly for others feelings and believes obesity isn’t the real problem. Kinzel sees fat-shaming as the real problem and wants to promote self-love. This shows Kinzle does not anyone to be offended especially with fat-shaming. Friend mentions that people are too soft and avoiding this issue would just make it worst. He uses plenty of examples on how obesity is affecting not only the obese but other people negatively. Friend states “America shuns shame. It has become a nation so afraid to offend that it turns a blind eye to its biggest problems, such as obesity” (Friend, 5) the problem of obesity not only kills but cost Americans tons of money. Friend doesn’t think it’s fair to healthy Americans that they have to adjust their lives to accommodate for obese/overweight people. This explains why Friend believes America should take a stricter approach to obesity even if it means hurting someone’s …show more content…
Kinzel believes the answer is not to fat-shame obesity, rather encourage kids to feel comfortable in their own skin. She mentions in her article that “shame is not a catalyst for change; it is a paralytic.” (Kinzle, 7) A catalyst speeds up a reaction but in this reference, she is saying it would just slow down the process of change, a paralytic. She believes if people would be more accepting of other peoples bodies there wouldn’t be a problem. On the opposing side, Friend believes obesity is a problem and there is only one way to solve it, which is fat-shaming. Friend states “if shame is not the cornerstone of the solution, the situation will never improve.”(Friend, 6) He believes shame is the only way to solve obesity. He uses the example of cigarettes. He says cigarettes use to be popular until people started to shame others who smoked and now it’s viewed as nasty. Friend believes if people do the same with obesity it can solve the
Kinzel writes there are plenty of factor going into play when you shame a fat person, factors unknown to the one doing the shaming. She believes if one shames someone else for being fat they are just restricting them from being the best person they can be. In her article, she states “The only thing you can tell for sure by looking at a fat person is the degree of your own bias against fat people.” (Kinzel, 11) Kinzel feels strongly for others feelings and believes obesity isn’t the real problem. Kinzel sees fat-shaming as the real problem and wants to promote self-love. This shows Kinzle does not anyone to be offended especially with fat-shaming. Friend mentions that people are too soft and avoiding this issue would just make it worst. He uses plenty of examples on how obesity is affecting not only the obese but other people negatively. Friend states “America shuns shame. It has become a nation so afraid to offend that it turns a blind eye to its biggest problems, such as obesity” (Friend, 5) the problem of obesity not only kills but cost Americans tons of money. Friend doesn’t think it’s fair to healthy Americans that they have to adjust their lives to accommodate for obese/overweight people. This explains why Friend believes America should take a stricter approach to obesity even if it means hurting someone’s …show more content…
Kinzel believes the answer is not to fat-shame obesity, rather encourage kids to feel comfortable in their own skin. She mentions in her article that “shame is not a catalyst for change; it is a paralytic.” (Kinzle, 7) A catalyst speeds up a reaction but in this reference, she is saying it would just slow down the process of change, a paralytic. She believes if people would be more accepting of other peoples bodies there wouldn’t be a problem. On the opposing side, Friend believes obesity is a problem and there is only one way to solve it, which is fat-shaming. Friend states “if shame is not the cornerstone of the solution, the situation will never improve.”(Friend, 6) He believes shame is the only way to solve obesity. He uses the example of cigarettes. He says cigarettes use to be popular until people started to shame others who smoked and now it’s viewed as nasty. Friend believes if people do the same with obesity it can solve the