DISPENSARY CORNER 6 April 16
April 6, 2016
A BIZARRE ‘fitness’
craze is sweeping
through China,
prompting women
to compete online
to achieve a “paperthin”
physique.
Dubbed #A4Waist, the latest
challenge to hit Chinese micro-blogging
website, Weibo, prompts
women to hold vertically an A4
sheet of paper in front of their
waists to see if they can fit within
the dimensions.
Government organisations
have also jumped on board, with
verified police force accounts
jumping on board by posting
photos of attractive employees
holding up A4 sheets of paper.
Instagram and Twitter
users (blocked in China)
took to mocking the trend,
taking similar photos holding
university degrees hash-tagged
#doesthisdegreemakemelookfat?
Others held the paper
horizontally, jokingly asking “am I
doing this right?”.
UK gym, Fit4less, has been
slammed for fat shaming after
erecting a giant billboard saying
that when aliens come to earth,
fat people will be the first to be
abducted.
The 6 metre high poster has
attracted wide-spread criticism,
with British parliamentary adviser,
Natalie Harvey, saying “I couldn’t
believe it when I saw it, it’s 2016 -
this sort of fat shaming humour is
offensive”.
Fit4less have defended their
campaign, with its chief executive
officer refusing to take the
billboard down.
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