{"id":342,"date":"2012-08-13T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T22:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2012-08-14T20:55:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T03:55:48","slug":"racism-sexism-ageism-fatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Racism, Sexism, Ageism&#8230;Fatism?"},"content":{"rendered":"      <p>There&#8217;s racism. Ageism. Sexism. Is there &#8220;fat-ism?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having gone up and down the scale through five pregnancies, it&#8217;s been something not unfamiliar to me. So I ask: do we in our culture take people less seriously if they are overweight? What kind of self-esteem issues do our young people (as well as adults) have when their weight falls outside the norm? Does the government&#8217;s standard &#8220;BMI&#8221; represent what is true ideal weight or are they way off?<\/p>\n<p>Jolly Fish Press has been piece-by-piece releasing clips from the video interview we did in July. In this clip I mention this\u00a0this and how it comes up in BIG IN JAPAN. Their first press release for the book was entitled, &#8220;Fat in America, Big in Japan.&#8221; It&#8217;s something taboo even to talk about sometimes&#8211;except among our similarly-dieting friends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2jYbMWDO-20&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Jennifer Griffith talks about social issues in Big in Japan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thoughts? Is &#8220;fat&#8221; still a bastion of intolerance?<\/p>\n\n      <div data-chorus-discovery data-url=\"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/?p=342\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s racism. Ageism. Sexism. Is there &#8220;fat-ism?&#8221; Having gone up and down the scale through five pregnancies, it&#8217;s been something not unfamiliar to me. So I ask: do we in our culture take people less seriously if they are overweight? What kind of self-esteem issues do our young people (as well as adults) have when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,158,6],"tags":[764,179,184,183,178,176,45,177,181,182,174,175,180],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-in-japan","category-japan","category-sumo-novel","tag-big-in-japan","tag-bmi","tag-culture","tag-fat","tag-fat-in-america","tag-fatism","tag-jennifer-griffith","tag-obesity","tag-overweight","tag-prejudice","tag-racism","tag-sexism","tag-weight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2OUjT-5w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.authorjennifergriffith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}