{"id":24971,"date":"2010-07-04T14:59:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T19:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24971"},"modified":"2012-01-18T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T01:44:11","slug":"how-to-undermine-a-body-acceptance-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/07\/04\/how-to-undermine-a-body-acceptance-message\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Undermine a Body-Acceptance Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristi P. sent us a link to a story at <a href=\"http:\/\/omg.yahoo.com\/news\/christina-hendricks-i-felt-beautiful-gaining-15-pounds\/43174?nc\" target=\"_blank\">OMG! from Yahoo!<\/a> about Christina Hendricks, who is famous for playing the curvaceous Joan on <em>Mad Men<\/em>. The article title includes &#8220;&#8216;I Felt Beautiful&#8217; Gaining &#8217;15 Pounds&#8217;,&#8221; and the article discusses how Hendricks feels about her body.<\/p>\n<p>Notice the contradiction in this screencap?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-24972\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/07\/04\/how-to-undermine-a-body-acceptance-message\/3-56\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24972 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/31-482x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/31-482x500.jpg 482w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/07\/31.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right: throughout the article on how Christina Hendricks loves her non-waifish body there are links to stories about &#8220;incredible star slim-downs,&#8221; getting a &#8220;celebrity six-pack,&#8221; and how to get a &#8220;last-minute bikini bod.&#8221; So even in a story about a person reveling in her body, the message is clearly conveyed that your own body is not good enough, and to make it better, you probably need to make it thinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristi P. sent us a link to a story at OMG! from Yahoo! about Christina Hendricks, who is famous for playing the curvaceous Joan on Mad Men. The article title includes &#8220;&#8216;I Felt Beautiful&#8217; Gaining &#8217;15 Pounds&#8217;,&#8221; and the article discusses how Hendricks feels about her body. Notice the contradiction in this screencap? That&#8217;s right: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[244,55,2103,129,140],"class_list":["post-24971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fat","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-media","tag-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24971","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24971"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44156,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24971\/revisions\/44156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}