Is this body shaming or encouraging children to be active and healthy?

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My Husband just told me about this: Famous Bluey Cartoon Deletes Scene After Pressure Over Alleged ‘Fat-Shaming’ (theepochtimes.com)

I find it ridiculous that a children's tv show has had to remove a scene that promotes exercising and being a healthy weight.

AIBU to find it concerning that future generations are not being encouraged to stay fit and healthy and are increasingly being sent a message that it's ok to be overweight?

I know in the present climate I may be opening a can of worms here, but surely everyone still realises that as much as body positivity is a good thing, it is still unhealthy to be overweight and unfit?

Doing exercise doesn't have to be about weightloss.
I can't read your link but read this yesterday and from memory it did mention putting on weight or something which wasn't necessary

I guess you can discuss being over weight without having to be negative about your body. That's the issue, it's that they're being disparaging about being overweight. If they just said I've put on some weight I must exercise, it's the groaning and grimacing that's the problem.

It’s weird: on one hand there’s lots of pressure from social media etc. to “look” a certain way/shape/size that is definitely driving many young people to eating disorders. But at the same time there’s the body positivity movement that advocates for being proud of your body whatever shape/size it is. So I think young people are getting tons of mixed messages and somehow in all the noise the most important message - a focus on diet and exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle rather than appearance - is getting lost.

He’s not exercising for health per say. He pinches his belly and proceeds to say he needs to do exercise for that reason (to lose weight). The mother comments ‘Tell me about it’ in response. Having grown up in the 90s when this type of stuff was rife and suffered Anorexia Nervosa from age 11, I’m fully behind it being removed and can’t see why it was made. They didn’t need a fat pinching scene or to imply exercise was something you start doing at that point, rather than part of a normal healthy life style. I also can’t read the OP link, but the Guardian has an article on it that I can read.

https://amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/05/scene-cut-bluey-episode-exercise-complaints-body-image-fat-shaming

Yeah, the day that diets start working is the day these scenes are appropriate.

Anyone who really wants to encourage weght loss needs to ancourage body positivity and acceptance, because body shaming only achieves even more of a screwed up relationship with food.

So let's start that with our kids - YAY!

Most people are much more aware of their body size than their cardio fitness.

Excess Body size is an very common sign that you've become very unfit.
Can't in practice separate fitness awareness from size awareness.

I don't have any opinion about the cartoon but I think it might be nonsensical to talk about cardio fitness or physical strength as unrelated to body size.