KIN 338 is the first kinesiology class I have ever taken in my life. I feel pretty interested in this class that I can learn many histories about women in sport related to how women are struggling for their rights. I also learn many backgrounds that women are treated unequally before in the United States history.
After reading the article “Unbearable Lessons: Contesting Fat Phobia in Physical Education” and the after watching the video in class, I think fat phobia is a very serious problem in our modern society. Fat people are discriminated by others just because of their out looking. Fat people usually do not have great self confident. They are not accepted by the major society. As the article says, fat phobia is a mental illness, not obesity itself. People who are fat do not have serious health problem. The only problem is the mental illness people with obesity create themselves. Many girls are willing to lose weight even though they are not obesity at all. Losing weight has become a popular trend. People see themselves as “fat” even that is not truth.
People who has fat phobia care about their out looking more. The pressure from the peers and the society are also pressing people to think they are overweight. We should stop falling in the stereotype of fat phobia. We should protect ourselves from fat phobia and have a healthy body and mind.
Jie Zhong
KIN 338I Sec #1
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