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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":"

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