Take Action!
Urge Major Media Outlets To Use Appropriate Images And Language!
How Can You Help?
The entertainment industry, news media, television, films, print and social media industries all have a responsibility to shift the narrative surrounding people with obesity. The language, imagery and messaging used in media can help inform and educate, but it also has the ability to generate misinformation about weight and spread weight bias. If fact, media is the number one area where adults experience weight bias! Media portrayals of people with obesity are under-represented, unfair, and stereotypically negative.
The entertainment industry, news media, television, films, print and social media industries all have a responsibility to shift the narrative surrounding people with obesity. The language, imagery and messaging used in media can help inform and educate, but it also has the ability to generate misinformation about weight and spread weight bias. If fact, media is the number one area where adults experience weight bias! Media portrayals of people with obesity are under-represented, unfair, and stereotypically negative.
Now is the time to stop portraying people with obesity as undesirable by using people-first language and using non-stigmatizing video and images.
Take Action Now!
Use OAC’s advocacy tool below to send a letter to key media outlets urging them to use images with positive and respectful portrayals of people with obesity and people-first language. You’ll find an easy to use template letter to get you started, and we encourage you to personalize this letter before sending by including your story and thoughts before sending.