{"id":11223,"date":"2009-07-25T10:53:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=11223"},"modified":"2012-10-19T01:33:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T06:33:15","slug":"baby-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/07\/25\/baby-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Angela B. and Jessica B. sent in this photograph of a baby doll toy called the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaplanco.com\/store\/trans\/productDetailForm.asp?CatID=2|DP1020|0&amp;CollID=2511\" target=\"_blank\">Lots to Love Baby<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 Angela notes that &#8220;lots to love&#8221; is a slogan of the fat acceptance movement.\u00a0 So, apparently these babies are extra fat (aren&#8217;t babies <em>supposed <\/em>to be fat?) and, also, we&#8217;re not supposed to be concerned about that because &#8220;it&#8217;s just baby fat.&#8221;\u00a0 Is it me or is this a bizarre projection of unrealistic BMI expectations and, simultaneously, fat phobia onto infants?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11226\" title=\"Picture1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/Picture12-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Picture1\" width=\"511\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/Picture12-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/Picture12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/Picture12.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(And also, is that a potty training seat?\u00a0 I think Freud would be horrified.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela B. and Jessica B. sent in this photograph of a baby doll toy called the &#8220;Lots to Love Baby.&#8221;\u00a0 Angela notes that &#8220;lots to love&#8221; is a slogan of the fat acceptance movement.\u00a0 So, apparently these babies are extra fat (aren&#8217;t babies supposed to be fat?) and, also, we&#8217;re not supposed to be concerned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[244,223,1711],"class_list":["post-11223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fat","tag-childrenyouth","tag-toysgames"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11230,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223\/revisions\/11230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}