{"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\/2015\/03\/woman-petitions-facebook-to-remove-the-feeling-fat-status-update-option\/","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