14. The Elephant in the Room: Fatphobia in the Workplace 🐘🏢
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2024
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Raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimized by fatphobia in the workplace. 🙋🏻♀️ Whether it’s inappropriate jokes around the water cooler or inaccessible seating that hurts our legs (and our feelings), we’re chatting about all the things we used to be able to ignore. Or, at least the things we used to keep quiet about. 🤫 Join us this week as we rage against the machine (and the CDC) that’s been inviting diet culture into our company-wide memos and our coworkers’ lunches for as long as we can remember. It might be the elephant in the room, but we think it’s time to give it a name. 🐘
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Great discussion guys! I love these podcasts, definitely help me feel less alone. Keep it up!
Awesome! Thank you!
relating to Rebecca's comments, I was always most touched by, and most attentive to, the teachers who revealed who they were in an honest and unapologetic way, going all the way back to 5th grade. You can grow to love and respect a person like that, even if on first meeting them, you're not sure you will. (My 5th grade teacher, for example, was elderly, more overweight than I was accustomed to, and had had a stroke, so one side of her face didn't completely operate the same as the other side. All just visual stuff, right, but to a 10 year old, maybe a bit off-putting at first. But she remains my ALL TIME FAVORITE teacher, starting with the first day when she explained the issues with her face.)
I love this memory! My 6th grade teacher made a big impression on me because he was honest with us and would let us know when we hurt his feelings, etc. I like to think my students appreciate me being real with them.
I had no idea till this podcast that Alyssa worked at the YMCA for 5 years. I was imagining her job was something like a therapy counselor from these videos.
She's so good at talking out beliefs and emotions!
I worked for Verizon Wireless for 7 years in a call center from 2009 to 2015 and every year they would have a fitness competition among all of the teams in the building. There were signs in the elevators about how taking the stairs would’ve been a better choice and the on site gym trainers would stand in front of them often to encourage us not to use them. Everyone’s activity points were tracked individually and the team with the most “active members” would win offline time (this was like gold to us), prizes and merch. The ableism and fatphobia was so loud there. And as a woman who has been this big girl my whole life, this was always so triggering and honestly terrifying. The pressure I felt from my teammates to get my ass moving and get my movement points was suffocating.
I’m so sorry you went through this. That sounds absolutely toxic and, frankly, overwhelmingly traumatic. Thank you for sharing that with us. And thank you for being here. 💖 - Ally
This was such a dope conversation.! Appreciate the different perspectives/professions 💕
We're so glad you listened and enjoyed it ❤️
I think the one thing that stood out and I like is how to respond to these comments that are offensive or did not work is Ally saying the joke did not land. I have never heard that. I also like Alyssa saying try finding dialogue that will not start the conversation to make it worse but make you think.
Yes, it's a way of sharing a difference without having to continue the emotional engagement!
I comment way too much but i could seriously be in on all of these conversations... I am an sttorney / chicago ... And I was helping a another attorney with a certain aspect of his case and I won against the opponent
This opposing attorney wrote a memo to the judge complaining and in one of his rants basically said AND the attorney was FAT
To make matters worse the attorney i wom this motion for showed me this memo and told me to lay off the lunch chinese food 😡
Oh hellllllllllll no!!!! In that situation, I'd hope the judge would give a warning to the opposing attorney and cut that crap off immediately. And boo to the one you were working with. No support, just let me make you aware of this and double down on it 🤢. What an awful experience. I'm sorry you dealt with that! And keep winning those motions. ❤️
Nice introduction.
The words 'research has found' is thrown about so much in conversations like this. Be specific about the research and studies, name your resources and statistics.
We mentioned a couple times that this was all found on the SHRM organization website.
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