Maggie goes on a Diet
The controversy surrounding this book relates to the issue that it is aimed at children 8 - 12, regardless that the protagonist is 14 (an age i’d consider decent to begin healthy eating habits) and that it tells children that if you are overweight you will be unhappy blah blah blah.
Does anyone but me find this to be another media backlash at the wrong area of the matter? The attention shouldn’t be that the book uses the word diet or portrays her as unhappy overweight, rather that it shouldn’t be up to literature to assist children with developing healthy habits, it should be the parents responsibility. If they put half the effort in that I see them complaining to actually focusing on their children, rates of childhood obesity wouldn’t be so high.
Continuing, why is the issue on a book portraying her as unhappy when on prime time television there are weight loss shows with people crying their eyes out because they are unhappy due to their weight.
Fuck You to all the 40-something year olds out there who find nothing better to do than complain while their child just gets bigger and bigger.
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