A law against fat-shaming and the stars who have been victims of it
Fat shaming: discriminatory behavior towards overweight and obese people caused by an anti-fat bias. It is also on fat-shaming, the social stigma of obesity, that the bill against bullying presented in Parliament by Deputy Pd Filippo Sensi is about. It is the first time that the issue is addressed in Montecitorio. Of course, the derision of a person because of his physical form has, unfortunately, always existed, but with the advent of social networks the phenomenon has definitely worsened. It is for this reason that the proposal is part of the eight new articles for the law on cyberbullying, an offensive behavior perpetrated in the virtual world, but which, inevitably, damages the self-esteem of a real person. In this regard, already in 2017, a law was introduced for the first time to protect victims through 114, a psychological support number available 24 hours a day, also usable in the form of chat and application.
A touching testimony
Great emotion for the speech given in Parliament by the deputy Filippo Sensi. The man has decided to approach the issue by telling his personal experience. He himself was made the object of ridicule and mortification due to his weight, so much so that, when he was little, his companions enjoyed coining new offenses every day to address him, including "Sensi, you make sense of me". “« All my life I have been a “fat bomb gunner”, a “big belly”, a “trippone”, a “ball of lard”. Anyone who knows me knows that I joke about my weight, I exorcise it, but I measure myself every day, not as an obsession but as my size, and I feel this gaze that weighs, that weighs me, already, it weighs me. Not everyone, however, and let's pretend it is a step forward, can joke about it, and when you are a boy or, perhaps, when you are a girl, it is damned more difficult ». Testimony of how some wounds remain open despite the passing of the years and how urgent it is to stem the phenomenon as immediately as possible. Therefore, we just have to wait for the go-ahead from the Senate which, we hope, has the good sense to grasp the gravity of the phenomenon.
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Even celebrities are not immune to it
Fat-shaming does not spare anyone, not even the women of the show. Their lives, constantly in the spotlight, are further subject to judgment and criticism from haters and detractors. This month we talked to you, in particular, about three celebrities targeted for their fitness. There was Adele, a unique voice of her kind, who, in recent months, has lost several kilos, thus passing from the insults of those who considered her too "fat" to, paradoxically, those of those who consider her "excessively thin". But also Valeria Marini, the Italian show girl par excellence, who, inside the Big Brother house, was called with names such as “prosciuttona” and “cessa”. Of course, you may like it or not, but a criticism is acceptable only if it is constructive, otherwise it is meaningless and gratuitous malice. Finally, we told you about perhaps the saddest and most unfortunate case, the fat-shaming against the new mother Blake Lively. Only four months after the birth of her third child, the American actress was attacked by some followers for not having lost the extra pounds yet. News that speaks for itself.
It seems clear to us, then, that overweight people should not be ashamed, but rather those who consider it a valid reason to make fun of it.
