Fat foid complains when confronted with reality.
Jessica Cameron says getting weighed at Adventure Bay Family Water Park due to a new lower weight limit for the water slide felt intrusive and left her embarrassed, and she's concerned about how it could affect others.
Jessica Cameron went to Adventure Bay Family Water Park with her seven-year-old. A frequent user of the city-run park, Cameron said this was the first time she noticed a new rule for one of the slides, called The Python. It now has a 300-pound weight restriction, which meant she and her son had to be weighed.
As a result, Cameron and her son weren't allowed to go down the slide together. The whole experience left Cameron feeling ashamed and worried about others who may be put in a similar situation.
After walking up a series of steps to get to the top of The Python, a large blue slide where people sit in a tube and ride down together, Cameron noticed a scale and sign that said weight requirements for the slide were now different.
Cameron said a digital screen flashes the person's weight at the on-duty lifeguard.
"It was unnerving, first of all, to see a scale on the floor that looked like something you would put a dog on," she said.
"I felt embarrassed. I felt like it was intrusive to me."
When she turned to the lifeguard to ask what would happen now that they were over the limit, he told her he'd get another lifeguard to go down the slide with her son.
Cameron said she then had to go back down the stairs, which felt like a "walk of shame."
When a guest is on the scale, the only person who can view the number is the lifeguard, no numbers are stated out loud and staff are trained on how to communicate kindly with patrons.
Kyle Ganson, assistant professor at Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto, has worked with people with eating disorders, body image issues and mental health or addictions issues.
When CBC told Ganson about the water-slide situation, he called it another example of "weight stigma, weight bias — that in order to engage in a life and have fun activities and experience things that people maybe in smaller bodies would experience, you have to be a certain weight."
"Don't develop something and make it publicly available if it can't hold various types of weights and high amounts of weight just because we know that people [who] are going to use them are going to come in all different types of body shapes and sizes," said Ganson.
Typical shitlib, $100 says he is in a polycule.
Ganson said experiences such as the one involving the water slide can cause shame, and create body image issues or reinforce a weight stigma of, "I should be a different size."
That could lead to someone trying to change their body by excessive dieting and overexercising, which could result in problems like eating disorders.
When asked whether a scale with a green or red light for the water slide is any better, Cameron said it still is saying "yes or no" to a group or a person, but she feels it may be better than having someone's weight on display.
After her experience, Cameron made a Facebook post on a local group for mothers to inform other women.
"People [in the post comments] were definitely on the side of this is not appropriate, this is harmful, this is demeaning, you know, especially for the young girls and for the moms like me who are just there with their kids, who are brave enough to put on the bathing suit.... It's a huge step, at my age after having kids to want to put on a bathing suit," she told CBC.
"I think that everybody deserves to feel respected and feel like they can go and do things in their own body the way they are right now."
Jessica Cameron says getting weighed at Adventure Bay Family Water Park due to a new lower weight limit for the water slide felt intrusive and left her embarrassed, and she's concerned about how it could affect others.
Jessica Cameron went to Adventure Bay Family Water Park with her seven-year-old. A frequent user of the city-run park, Cameron said this was the first time she noticed a new rule for one of the slides, called The Python. It now has a 300-pound weight restriction, which meant she and her son had to be weighed.
As a result, Cameron and her son weren't allowed to go down the slide together. The whole experience left Cameron feeling ashamed and worried about others who may be put in a similar situation.
After walking up a series of steps to get to the top of The Python, a large blue slide where people sit in a tube and ride down together, Cameron noticed a scale and sign that said weight requirements for the slide were now different.
Cameron said a digital screen flashes the person's weight at the on-duty lifeguard.
"It was unnerving, first of all, to see a scale on the floor that looked like something you would put a dog on," she said.
"I felt embarrassed. I felt like it was intrusive to me."
When she turned to the lifeguard to ask what would happen now that they were over the limit, he told her he'd get another lifeguard to go down the slide with her son.
Cameron said she then had to go back down the stairs, which felt like a "walk of shame."
When a guest is on the scale, the only person who can view the number is the lifeguard, no numbers are stated out loud and staff are trained on how to communicate kindly with patrons.
Kyle Ganson
, assistant professor at Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto, has worked with people with eating disorders, body image issues and mental health or addictions issues.When CBC told Ganson about the water-slide situation, he called it another example of "weight stigma, weight bias — that in order to engage in a life and have fun activities and experience things that people maybe in smaller bodies would experience, you have to be a certain weight."
"Don't develop something and make it publicly available if it can't hold various types of weights and high amounts of weight just because we know that people [who] are going to use them are going to come in all different types of body shapes and sizes," said Ganson.
Typical shitlib, $100 says he is in a polycule.
Ganson said experiences such as the one involving the water slide can cause shame, and create body image issues or reinforce a weight stigma of, "I should be a different size."
That could lead to someone trying to change their body by excessive dieting and overexercising, which could result in problems like eating disorders.
When asked whether a scale with a green or red light for the water slide is any better, Cameron said it still is saying "yes or no" to a group or a person, but she feels it may be better than having someone's weight on display.
After her experience, Cameron made a Facebook post on a local group for mothers to inform other women.
"People [in the post comments] were definitely on the side of this is not appropriate, this is harmful, this is demeaning, you know, especially for the young girls and for the moms like me who are just there with their kids, who are brave enough to put on the bathing suit.... It's a huge step, at my age after having kids to want to put on a bathing suit," she told CBC.
"I think that everybody deserves to feel respected and feel like they can go and do things in their own body the way they are right now."
