{"id":97312,"date":"2015-03-07T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=97312"},"modified":"2015-03-07T15:06:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T15:06:27","slug":"woman-petitions-facebook-to-remove-the-feeling-fat-status-update-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=97312","title":{"rendered":"Woman petitions facebook to remove the ‘Feeling Fat’ status update option"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of activists have a message for Facebook: Fat is not a feeling.<\/p>\n

Facebook’s status update box allows users to select an emoticon associated with a certain feeling from a drop-down box. Alongside “happy,” “anxious” and “full,” users can select “fat.”<\/p>\n

In late February, Catherine Weingarten, a playwriting MFA candidate at Ohio University, wrote a Change.org petition asking Facebook to remove “fat” from the list of options. The petition reads, in part:<\/p>\n

\"women\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Endangered Bodies, an organization that promotes body positivity, rallied around the campaign and asked Twitter users to speak up, using #FatIsNotAFeeling to explain why they want Facebook to change the “feeling fat” option. As of Friday afternoon, the petition had received over 13,000 signatures.<\/p>\n

Weingarten told The Daily Dot that Facebook’s “feeling fat” option is far from harmless.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can trivialize people\u2019s experiences, or encourage people to put out body-negative ideas and have other people validate that,\u201d she said. \u201cFatness isn\u2019t a feeling, it\u2019s something on the outside; it\u2019s an insult. A feeling should be something more internal.\u201d<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: Huffingtonpost.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of activists have a message for Facebook: Fat is not a feeling. Facebook’s status update box allows users to select an emoticon associated with a certain feeling from a drop-down box. Alongside “happy,” “anxious” and “full,” users can select “fat.” In late February, Catherine Weingarten, a playwriting MFA candidate at Ohio University, wrote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":97393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-97312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}