{"id":4825,"date":"2018-11-15T08:50:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T13:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2018-11-15T16:33:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:33:38","slug":"is-it-me-or-are-others-also-disgusted-and-offended-by-the-blatant-body-shaming-in-the-africas-next-model-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/11\/15\/is-it-me-or-are-others-also-disgusted-and-offended-by-the-blatant-body-shaming-in-the-africas-next-model-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it me or are others also disgusted and offended by the blatant body shaming in the &#8220;Africa&#8217;s Next Model&#8221; posters."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4814\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4814\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw1111518-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4814\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw1111518-4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Is it me or are others also disgusted and offended by the blatant body shaming in the &quot;Africa's Next Model&quot; posters... #LoveAllSizes #We'reNotAllSize2 #StopFATShaming !!!!\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw1111518-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw1111518-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw1111518-4-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/aw1111518-4.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is it me or are others also disgusted and offended by the blatant body shaming in the &#8220;Africa&#8217;s Next Model&#8221; posters&#8230; #LoveAllSizes<br \/>#We&#8217;reNotAllSize2 #StopFATShaming !!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The images on those posters don&#8217;t seem particularly representative of ordinary people, that&#8217;s for sure. If people decide to aspire to those body shapes, that&#8217;s a lot of potential failure, because human bodies are delightfully varied, and really shouldn&#8217;t be asked to fit such a narrow range of shapes. You might be interested in the anthology of essays The Politics of Women&#8217;s Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior (O&#8217;Neill Library HQ1206 .P56 2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The images on those posters don&#8217;t seem particularly representative of ordinary people, that&#8217;s for sure. If people decide to aspire to those body shapes, that&#8217;s a lot of potential failure, because human bodies are delightfully varied, and really shouldn&#8217;t be asked to fit such a narrow range of shapes. You might be interested in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/11\/15\/is-it-me-or-are-others-also-disgusted-and-offended-by-the-blatant-body-shaming-in-the-africas-next-model-posters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is it me or are others also disgusted and offended by the blatant body shaming in the &#8220;Africa&#8217;s Next Model&#8221; posters.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-health-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4825"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4841,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions\/4841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}