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Ridiculously offensive article
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https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/dating-blog/overweight-couples-on-television
Just a teaser:
So anyway, yes, I think I'd be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other ... because I'd be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything. To be brutally honest, even in real life, I find it aesthetically displeasing to watch a very, very fat person simply walk across a room ? just like I'd find it distressing if I saw a very drunk person stumbling across a bar or a heroine addict slumping in a chair.
(NOTE - that is a quote FROM THE ARTICLE, NOT my opinion!)
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Re: Ridiculously offensive article
I read about this article yesterday.
She is a horrible person.
Really?! REALLY?! Wow, what an ignorant douche.
This article is offensive to me as well. I'm not overweight, but I do have overweight friends and family, and who cares what they look like? I think it's equally as disgusting to see two thin people making out. To me, it's not the fact that it's two "fat people" making out, it's the making out in general! I don't want to see ANYONE doing it!
But she has a few friends who could be called plump, so she's not some size-ist jerk (I wonder how many "plump" friends she has left after this was published online . . . . )
Yeah, I read that. She's an assshole who is obviously still in denial about her own body issues. No one should be that harsh about someone else's weight, but especially not someone who is not exactly the picture of health herself.
The follow-up apology was pathetic, too, but it's even more pathetic that the editor is sticking up for this person.
Oh, and her writing sucks, too. What the hell is a "heroine addict"? Someone who loves Jane Austen books? lol.
You know... this irks me..
I was at a wedding and these two guys were out on the dance floor making out with each other.. they were dating and I found it disgusting... Then I was being homophobic, which I am not! I don't make out with DH in public and I don't want to watch anyone else making out either... I don't care what your weight is, what color your skin is or your sexuality... I just don't want to see it!
LOL - I missed that. How did this woman get a paying gig writing a blog? Amazing!
And here she is!
::keep your nasty comments to yourself Lopo!!::
Dude, that is totally a man.
And like Toledo, I think most of the "heroine" addicts I've ever met were pretty awesome. My Granny loved reading trashy romance novels, so I guess she's a heroine addict, too.
She added an apology at the end. I think she should lose her job.
UPDATE: I would really like to apologize for the insensitive things I've said in this post. Believe it or not, I never wanted anyone to feel bullied or ashamed after reading this, and I sorely regret that it upset people so much. A lot of what I said was unnecessary. It wasn't productive, either.
??I know a lot of people truly struggle to lose weight ? for medical and psychological reasons ? and that many people have an incredibly difficult time getting to a healthy size. I feel for those people and I'm truly sorry I added to the unhappiness and pain they feel with my post.
??I would like to reiterate that I think it's great to have people of all shapes and healthy sizes represented in magazines (as, it bears mentioning here, they are in Marie Claire) and on TV shows ? and that in my post, I was talking about a TV show that features people who are not simply a little overweight, but appear to be morbidly obese. (Morbid obesity is defined as 100 percent more than their ideal weight.) And for whatever it's worth, I feel just as uncomfortable when I see an anorexic person as I do when I see someone who is morbidly obese, because I assume people suffering from eating disorders on either end of the spectrum are doing damage to their bodies, and that they are unhappy. But perhaps I shouldn?t be so quick to judge based on superficial observations.
?To that point (and on a more personal level), a few commenters and one of my friends mentioned that my extreme reaction might have grown out of my own body issues, my history as an anorexic, and my life-long obsession with being thin. As I mentioned in the ongoing dialogue we?ve been carrying on in the comments section, I think that's an accurate insight.
?People have accused me of being a bully in my post. I never intended to be that ? it's actually the very last thing I want to be, as a writer or a person. But I know that I came off that way, and I really cannot apologize enough to the people whom I upset.
What's the definition of "plump" versus "fat"? Is it okay to see two "plump" people make out? Perhaps she would support a law on PDA based on what size you wear...No making out in public past size 10!
Really, though, what a douche.
I'm guessing that to this woman, a size 10 is still a big fat fatty-fat.
I thought this was a pretty good blog response to the whole thing:
I Feel Sorry for the "Marie Claire" Fatties Author