Eat the Rules with Summer Innanen

#292: AITA Diet and Body Edition Part 2 - with Vinny Welsby

Mar 5, 2024

Best buddy Vinny and host discuss 'Am I The Asshole' posts on Reddit about weight and diet issues. They analyze cognitive dissonance, anti-fat attitudes, and self-esteem influences. Topics include inclusive seating choices, pressuring spouses to conform, societal biases in relationships, and taboo conversations on body acceptance.

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Body image conflicts can arise from seating arrangements and weight concerns, leading to judgments and conflicts around acceptance.

Imposing societal body standards on a partner reflects control issues and deep-seated biases around weight and attractiveness.

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Summary of Scenario 1: Embarrassing the Friend's Boyfriend

An individual hosts a dinner to celebrate moving into a new house and asks a friend's morbidly O-word boyfriend, Dale, to sit on a sturdier chair due to concerns about the old chairs holding his weight. The friend's girlfriend, Katie, gets upset, accusing the host of fat phobia and embarrassing Dale, leading to an uncomfortable situation where Katie and Dale leave early.

Introduction

3min

Navigating Fatphobia and Comfort in Social Gatherings

10min

Controversial Dilemma: Imposing a Diet to Travel

3min

Navigating Weight, Attraction, and Societal Pressures in Relationships

8min

Embracing Taboo Conversations and Self-Acceptance Humor

2min

Exploration of Seeking Unbiased Feedback Online

2min

In this episode, I’m cohosting with my best buddy Vinny Welsby. Have you ever read the “Am I The Asshole” questions on Reddit? If you don’t know what AITA is: People ask the internet if they were in the right or wrong about a situation that happened in their life. In the second half of this two-part episode, Vinny and I are reading some of these to give our verdict on AITA posts around weight and diets.

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/291 In this episode, we talk about: - The cognitive dissonance we see in the responses, - How you can hear the anti-fat attitudes in what people write, - How we would have handled these situations, - How people’s own self-esteem influences how they treat and view the people around them, - Plus so much more! Get the shownotes: summerinnanen.com/291 Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap

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Eat the Rules with Summer Innanen

#292: AITA Diet and Body Edition Part 2 - with Vinny Welsby

Episode guests

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Deep dives

Summary of Scenario 1: Embarrassing the Friend's Boyfriend

Summary of Scenario 2: Imposing a Diet on the Wife

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