Comments on: Obesity Moral Panics and the Gendered Presentation of Disordered Eating http://blog.shrub.com/archives/arielladrake/2007-05-05_589 Because we care about stuff Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:34:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: arielladrake http://blog.shrub.com/archives/arielladrake/2007-05-05_589#comment-64617 arielladrake Mon, 07 May 2007 02:16:23 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/arielladrake/2007-05-05_589#comment-64617 Fire Fly: I must admit, I'm fascinated by that second article you linked to. I can't find anything online about the study directly to confirm, but the article implies that the research involved parents self-assessing their parenting styles, without any confirmation of that data. Which seems really strange, to me. Of course, I like how the first article conveniently glosses over the fact that kids have also gotten taller, as though that's totally unrelated to size. Fire Fly: I must admit, I’m fascinated by that second article you linked to. I can’t find anything online about the study directly to confirm, but the article implies that the research involved parents self-assessing their parenting styles, without any confirmation of that data. Which seems really strange, to me.

Of course, I like how the first article conveniently glosses over the fact that kids have also gotten taller, as though that’s totally unrelated to size.

]]> By: Fire Fly http://blog.shrub.com/archives/arielladrake/2007-05-05_589#comment-64513 Fire Fly Sun, 06 May 2007 07:57:55 +0000 http://blog.shrub.com/archives/arielladrake/2007-05-05_589#comment-64513 I was thinking about the link between the obesity panic today, when I looked at the paper and almost everything staring at me was panic about obesity (<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/primary-school-kids-in-xxxxxlsize-uniforms/2007/05/05/1177788468709.html" rel="nofollow">huuuge school uniforms!</a>, and the ridiculously sexist, and heterosexist, <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/firm-dads-fight-fat/2007/05/05/1177788466104.html" rel="nofollow">fathers parenting decides whether children are obese or not</a>)... it really is getting a bit OTT. I was thinking about the link between the obesity panic today, when I looked at the paper and almost everything staring at me was panic about obesity (huuuge school uniforms!, and the ridiculously sexist, and heterosexist, fathers parenting decides whether children are obese or not)… it really is getting a bit OTT.

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