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So angry at what I've read this morning

I know it's the Daily Mail which has its reputation for a reason, but can't believe this article today.

A 'journalist' has printed just a lot of fatphobic nonsense disguised as serious article. She makes so many nasty comments and assumptions that she claims as being the opinion of others, when it's just an excuse to show her own hate and ignorance. Wearing a 'fat suit' for a couple of hours is hardly comparable to the actual experience and her tone of 'poor me' for having to endure the horrendous indignity of being larger than average... it's just disgusting.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9788281/amp/LIZ-JONES-62-Im-used-invisible-obese-million-times-worse.html

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Neosneo · 18-21, F Best Comment

This isn't journalism and its got such a snarky tone. It's just kind of eschewing basic human decency. It seems like she's just trying to get bad controversy.

InOtterWords · F

@Neosneo she is promoting her book

Mellowgirl · 31-35, F

It's an unfortunate topic but it's one many cannot relate to. We have spent many years being taught being fat is a consequence of poor diet and Ill health. To try and get people to normalise what they've been taught to despise is a long and tough road. Someone attempting to empathise and garner some kind of mass sympathy will feel like a piss take but its a step towards starting a change. Hopefully.
I'd champion anyone that talks about the challenges faced due to weight.

I'm a bigger woman now and all the things I worried about when I was slim are the very things I'm insecure about know.
I'm brave enough to admit it. Others might not be, maybe for change the empathy/sympathy goes both ways, smaller women have issues too. Even if as a bigger person or may seem smaller people get more air time the point is its still a woman discussing complications with her body, and they are equal valid.

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Mellowgirl · 31-35, F

@helsbels I didn't as I avoid the daily mail tbh.
And I think her perspective is valid, it may be to an extreme due to her prior anorexia but her anxieties many can resonate with. Its horrible to say but in this pc world people do think like her even without a diagnosis they just keep it inside why, because they fear the backlash. Listen and then we can bring change.
Censorship won't bring change merely suppress and oppress.

I as a black woman often here nasty comments about my own,but if the person is open to learning, gaining understanding from perspectives shared could actually help us both learn something.
There's a root to every topic if you don't get to it, it will continue to come up.

helsbels · 26-30, F

@Mellowgirl That's a nice view and one I'd normally share, if this was a good article I'd be pleased about it and praise it. I am not upset that the story has been covered, but by the way it's been addressed, it is not insightful or genuine which is my complaint. If you had read it I think you'd see where I am coming from, it doesn't come across as an actual attempt at experiencing or learning something. I'm not trying to invalidate her viewpoint but it is very much 'fat people are annoying and unwelcome'. Nothing that happened in her day backs this up.

Mellowgirl · 31-35, F

@helsbels fair enough maybe if i can bring myself to read it i will, but in all honesty, i still stand with the, rounded view point and one person cannot cover all basis

GovanDUNNY · M

You should take no notice of rubbish like that ,I love ladies who are slightly plump like you , you are a perfect woman.

Zombee

I have no sympathy for obese peeps if it's their own doing.

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Zombee

@MaliaAgain You know SHOCKINGLY there are peeps out there that are fat because they don't look after themselves *fact* Goodbye!

MaliaAgain · 36-40, F

@Zombee obviously, but I'm saying you know it's not the only reason. You make the distinction, but I bet you actually dont care to find out.

canusernamebemyusername · M

@Zombee I have no sympathy for pieces of shit like you. If you could catch fatness you might have an argument. But what it actually boils down to is fat people offend your sense of anesthetics and that makes you mad. So you demonize what you personally don't like. Have fun with that slowed down metabolism as you age.

InOtterWords · F

That newspaper is trash

canusernamebemyusername · M

Yeah I can be hard on myself but I am the only one that has earned that right. Anybody else attacking me for not being a pleasure to look at really says so much about that person. And that Def pisses me off. Fat people were idolized for tens of thousands of years. From the Venus of Wilendorf to Betty Page.
This cult of size zero doesn't even register as a blip in human history. And it will eventually die.

checkoutanytime · M

I just read this article pertaining to covid...

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0awbVcE7?&share_destination_id=MzE5NTIxNTQtMTYyNjM0MjA5NDMzNg==&s=a7&pd=02A4DKnu&hl=en_US

SumKindaMunster · 51-55, M

Yeah I had similar feelings when Gwyneth Paltrow or Julia Roberts wore fat suits for movie roles and then made similar claims.

You are correct, it doesn't even remotely compare.

Fluffybull · F

Don't bother reading the Mail. Total rubbish.

helsbels · 26-30, F

@Fluffybull I'm pleased the vast majority of the comments were making the same objections I had and could see this for what it was too.

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