"Unless you puke, faint, or die, keep going!" Exploring weight stigma in the gym on The Biggest Loser
"Unless you puke, faint, or die, keep going!" Exploring weight stigma in the gym on The Biggest Loser
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DOI：
10.1080/21604851.2019.1547572
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发表时间：
2019-05-04
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通讯作者：
Serafin, Gabriel
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作者：
Greenleaf, Christy;Klos, Lori;Serafin, Gabriel
真人秀节目经常把减肥作为改善外表和健康的关键。最大的减肥者（TBL）强调极端运动是实现戏剧性减肥的主要机制。使用定向内容分析，我们探讨了污名化的方式，参赛者被描绘和治疗的私人教练在赛季11-14的TBL的运动片段。分析涉及逐字转录的对话，并注意到选手的描述，在运动段的广播，初步的编码过程中产生的初步想法和概念的编码主题，并最终编码过程中，以确定实例的刻板印象背书，侵略选手，并尽量减少和无视选手的经验。主导主题是为了参赛者的利益而激励行为改变的合理和正当的方法。把肥胖的身体说成是懒惰、没有吸引力、不称职、应该受到虐待，对促进健康或健康行为没有什么帮助;相反，普遍存在的与体重有关的耻辱感是值得庆祝和商品化的。需要努力倡导在健康和健身领域内社会公正地代表不同的身体形状和大小。
Reality makeover shows often focus on weight loss as essential for improved appearance and health. The Biggest Loser (TBL) highlights extreme exercise as the primary mechanism for achieving dramatic weight loss. Using directed content analysis, we explored the stigmatized ways in which contestants were portrayed and treated by personal trainers during the exercise segments of seasons 11-14 of TBL. Analysis involved verbatim transcription of the dialog and noting of contestant depiction during exercise segments of the broadcasts, a preliminary coding process to generate initial ideas and concepts for coding themes, and a final coding process to identify instances of stereotype endorsement, aggression toward contestants, and minimalizing and disregarding contestant experience. The dominant themes were presented as rational and justified methods of motivating behavior change for the good of the contestants. Representing fat bodies as lazy, unattractive, incompetent, and deserving of mistreatment does little to promote health or health behaviors; rather, pervasive weight-related stigma is celebrated and commodified. Efforts to advocate for socially just representations of diverse body shapes and sizes within the health and fitness domain are needed.