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The Philip DeFranco Show

PDS 8.30 "STOP PROMOTING OBESITY!"

The Philip DeFranco Show

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4.7 β€’ 1.1K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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0:00.0

Why are we normalizing obesity?

0:02.4

Is a question or rallying cry of a number of people online right now,

0:06.0

though at the same time you have people responding saying it's

0:08.3

called inclusion, you fat phobic D-bag.

0:10.5

So let's talk about why everyone's angry today.

0:12.8

So this specific controversy involves Abercrombie because they put up this post of their

0:16.2

fans wearing their clothes. The post showcase various body types but seemingly

0:19.4

due to the inclusion of this specific woman many felt like the brand was normalizing obesity.

0:23.3

Also I want to be clear here I actually went through the comments and it appeared that many

0:26.7

of the responses were just meant to be mean.

0:28.7

Though we did see a small percentage actually laying out their concerns about how this promotes an

0:32.1

unhealthy lifestyle.

0:33.0

Writing things like another example of companies promoting fat acceptance with a side of diabetes and a heart

0:37.7

attack, self-acceptance at what cost to our health.

0:40.3

And let's think about the global annual cost of treating obesity-related diseases.

0:44.0

Anything that causes a loss of hell should not be promoted.

0:46.6

And some questioning why Abercrombie, of all fucking places, right?

0:49.4

They have a history of fat shaming and only featuring skinny models until recently seemingly are going

0:53.4

quote too far in the other direction. As in things like why do they have to swing from one extreme to

0:57.9

another? Everyone knows models are usually anorexic or binge and purge so instead of

1:01.6

putting beautiful healthy weight gals and where are the models with a mid-range BMI.

1:07.8

Once again to be fair here the ad did have pretty much every body type.

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