US anchor Jennifer Livingston: Is she right or did the emailer have a point?

I find myself disinterested. He was probably rude, and she was overweight, but that doesn't really affect anyone else.

Well it does, higher healthcare costs and stuff, but I don't think you can blame that all on Jennifer Livingston.

 

Are you kidding? Jennifer Livingston is the sole source of global warming!

 

I think some people here are also radicalising how easy it is for people with a larger body type to lose weight.

 

Should say *radically overestimating

 

Me too. The only friends I had in High School were the slightly older kids I knew because they put me in this special program for literate, intellectual kids (hopefully that doesn't sound conceited). But I was the youngest in the program so by the time I was a senior none of the original group were left.

I can only remember one time in High School someone tried to pick on me, ironically it was someone I had been sort of friendly with in Junior High. He was balling up bits of paper in the auditorium and throwing them at my neck, so after I told him to stop and he didn't I turned and punched him in the face. There was also the time I was placed in a class where I was literally the only white person, or rather non-black person.

 

Emailer is a giant pustulant dick. It's bullying. Fat people are very, very aware that they are fat. Fat people are bullied (a friend of mine had some gal walk up to her, say she was disgusting, and advise my friend to kill herself).

You can be healthy at any size. A woman's value as a person and as a role model is not, and should not, be in any way related to her size. Her value as a role model should be in whether or not she's a good person, whether or not she's brave (she is, if she's standing up to this), whether or not she's smart and hard working.
It should have nothing to do with whether or not she's fat.

 

Also, this obsession with body image is incredibly unhealthy. Bulima, anorexia, depression, suicide, and so on. It reduces a woman's (and people's in general) worth to their body, which is not fucking okay.

 

Should have seen my high school, wow!!
What happened to that woman was e'ry day where I'm from, business as usual. I remember when I used to treat a kid on the bus like that, but it was for being a Christian. One day it exploded from a kid on the football team at the back of the bus coming to stand up for the kid and attacking my friend Aidan, whom he assumed was a weak defenseless asshole, like I was. Turned out it was a big mistake, as my friend, despite his appearance, was easily the most physically powerful kid that school had ever seen, and the bus irrupted into a royal rumble where not one kid left without being at least kicked or punched in the head. My friend alone took down half a dozen other kids. The bus driver immediately pulled over and called 911 and got out of the bus until the police arrived, but they couldn't figure out how it started so none of us were arrested.

Of course, now I am horrified when I think back to how I was as a kid and teenager, but back then, I don't believe I had no heart or sensitivity, but rather that mine was perpetually broken, and to an extent that I at the time had considered beyond repair.

 

She's certainly fat but not obese

I wouldn't hit it because I have standards




Hotwater

 

Wow, you're a terrible human being.

 

Magic_Rocks or Hotwater?

 

Hotwater.

 

I like her hair.

 

yeah, i wouldn't admit to it afterward either.

 

why not both or neither. personally i don't watch corporate media so i wouldn't know.

the only names i know of people who are celebrities of sorts are science fiction writers, and most of those, the ones i knew and remembered from the 70s and 80s are dead now, or close to it.

its not, i'm not deliberately trying to boycott the idea of celebrity or anything like that, its just that, what's popular in entertainment, and i'm sorry, but what passes for news in the corporate media is good for very little else, just completely seems to ignore all the things that are interesting to me.

 

Yet another terrible person ITT.

 

that's not true. you can certainly be so obese that it's life threatening. lesser levels of obesity increase risks of serious diseases.

being a little overweight doesn't seem to be a problem

there's no reason for all the fat hate though.

 

To the contrary:

Health at Every Size: Toward a New Paradigm of Weight and Health

Further support:
https://www.ars.usda.gov/is/ar/archive/mar06/health0306.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091104123025.htm
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/04/weight.aspx
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15942543




Final point: many of the health problems associated with obesity are also associated with certain kinds of diets. And fat people are very, very aware they're fat, and women in particular. The result is an entire subculture devoted to unhealthy fad diets, who are then afflicted with medical issues from their diets.

 

no, you're wrong. you can't weigh 900 pounds and be healthy. there is nothing in your quote that demonstrates that you can "be healthy at any size".

that obese people who exercise and eat vegetables can be healthier than some thin people who don't exercise and eat junk food doesn't mean that being obese is just as healthy as being leaner.

in general, it's good for people not to obsess about their weight, or feel bad about themselves because of their weight, but it's self-deception to think that obesity has no negative consequences.

 

The guys in his underwear he can't be that bad

Getting back on point, the woman is clearly overweight and I wouldn't hit it with a bag over her head. That is of course if it were possible to squeeze a bag over those jowls


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