More "is she being unreasonable" - Cancer Research basically accused of fat shaming.

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I'm hoping my link will work. What do people think about this? The scientific evidence is sound. We all know being overweight is hugely detrimental to our health. Is this too stark a message?

https://www.indy100.com/article/comedian-sofie-hagen-obesity-cancer-research-campaign-fat-shaming-twitter-overwieight-8237976?utmcampaign=Echobox&utmmmedium=Social&utmsource=Facebook

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3181578-Is-cancer-research-fat-shaming

Ah bugger, sorry!!!

It’s not body shaming. It’s factual. Obesity is a cause of cancer. Just like smoking is. This girl is such a keyboard warrior, she is always on Twitter taking huge offence to ANYTHING vaguely classed as “body shaming”. The last moan she had was about Amy Schumers new film.

I’m overweight- classed as obese. I KNOW this is just one factor in me possibly getting this disease later in life. I don’t find this messaging offensive, I KNOW this to be the case. It’s my choice what I do with the information-just like a man choosing to continue to smoke 40 a day even though he seems the grim and graphic pics on his cigarette box.

Cancer Research have a duty not to tiptoe around messages like this- why should they leave this out of their campaign because people might find it offensive. It really winds me up.

She's clearly doing it for attention. Which is working. She's utterly and completely wrong.

She's wrong. The ad campaign is factual, not fat shaming.

She's fat. Fact. She should not be abused, shouted at or discriminated against.

But being fat does increase risk of health problems. Screaming and swearing doesn't change facts.

She seems to be of the “professionally offended” type

Smoking causes cancer. Nobody disputes that fact and there are regular campaigns about it. Obesity also causes cancer. No one seems to actually dispute that fact either, but it’s not the subject of so much campaigning. It really should be. These days, obesity is more socially acceptable than smoking in lots of ways.

I’m obese, I know it increases my chance of getting cancer. I don’t get angry with cancer charities pointing that out in campaigns.

She is being unreasonable, it’s important that health messages are clear when there is good evidence. But it’s also not a particularly helpful approach unless you are going to point people towards evidence-based guidance on the best ways to tackle being overweight (to prevent obesity) and obesity itself. Losing weight is quite a difficult to do in reality for many many people. Most people know how, but actually doing it is something else.

Obesity is not a protected characteristic for a reason.

So she can continue to be offended, but she has no reasonable grounds to argue for the campaign's removal. There's no such thing as "fat shaming" in the medical context.

So saying smoking causes cancer is fag shaming?
Stress causing strikes is stress shaming?
Being tall causes me to whack my head in DSs bunk bed frame is heightist?

Just googled her and she's a Danish comedian?!
Surely Cancer Research or whoever should be able to say what puts you at higher risk of cancer or other diseases whether it be overweight or by smoking. If there is a link between the two then it needs to be said.

Fekko, your DS's bunk bed is definitely heightist!

I am fat, the reminders that fat causes cancer are useful and may even motivate me to lose weight! Probably not, as my will power is shit, but well, at least it is an informed choice!

I’m trying to find her rant about Amy Schumers new film, where she plays a “frumpy” woman with no confidence who hits her head and suddenly believes she is a goddess. This Sofie was saying how much of a hypocrite Amy Schumer was for taking this role when she has famously spoken out about Hollywood’s ‘sizeist’ beliefs. And now how because she was playing this ‘frumpy’ character she was doing women everywhere a disservice. She’s ridiculous! (BTW ‘frumpy’ being the character design in the film, not my opinion’

I live in hope that campaigns like this lead to better regulation of the food industry. The food industry is immensely powerful and makes a lot of money from selling us overpriced nasty 'food' with little nutritional value but full of cheap horrid stuff. They make millions of pounds. Portion sizes are out of control, our idea of normal has been distorted.

Says a very unhappily five-stone-overweight fatty who although has struggled with my weight for 40 years was previously able to keep within reasonable limits because of societal norms. You rarely saw people who were 'two person' size eg 17-20+ stone until comparatively recently. I think it's sad that societal norms now accept so many very large people. Two of my friends, a married couple, weigh nearly 40 stone between them and need to be careful where they stay because they need a very big bed. Maybe campaigns like this will help recalibrate our view of 'normal'

The woman is basically a professionally offended knob.

The campaign is factually correct - although I don't get the way they've gone about it, is it supposed to be a puzzle? What is the point of the missing letters? It's weird.