Fat news lady CBS WKBT News Anchor's On-Air Response to Viewer Calling Her Fat (Oct. 2nd, 2012) - YouTube defends her choice to be fat and says bulimia is a larger problem in the US than obesity.

I can't believe the support she is getting in the press and message boards. The only explanation I can put forth is that there alot more obese people than thin people.

The other proposition that I have to challenge is that obesity is genetic, not a choice. My ex claimed she went from 115 when we got married to 210 when we got divorced because of a thyroid problem. I never confronted her about the half gallon ice cream cartons I found hidden at the bottom of the trash can every day when I got home from work. She never explained where the thyroid problem was before we got married.

Personally, I am about 30 pounds over weight. It is because I eat too much and exercise too little. Why can't other people admit that is their problem, not thyroid problems or genetics or the idea that chubby is beautiful like the national press likes to present.

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maybe she is getting support because people think it was rude to call in and call her fat.

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Rude is right. Unmannerly for sure.
Having said that, fat people are costing all of us money in health care costs just the way smokers used to. The business about bulimia being a worse problem than obesity made me laugh out loud.

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Ladies and Gentlman, I give you Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais on Fat People - YouTube


People do not want to be responsible for their own actions and are incredibly lazy.

Good for her. Common decency is all but dead.

When we stop paying for smokers and excessive drinkers, then get back to me about additional healthcare costs.

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What you choose to stuff your face with, and what lifestyle choices you choose to make (walk more, or walk less - live closer to work in a walkable area, or commute 2 hr each way by car), are ultimately choices. As an anchorwoman, I doubt that she's dirt-poor, so there's little excuse.

This being said, the guy calling her fat on public TV was classless and wrong.

I almost spit coffee on my monitor

I remember reading an article somewhere that compared projected healthcare costs for a fatty, a smoker, and a "healthy" person. Healthy had the highest projected cost due to being expected to live considerably longer.

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I agree that it's more about the absolute gall of assuming the right to criticize a total stranger like that. I feel bad for any woman who's ever dated that guy. Ugh. I can just imagine it now. "Are you really sure you should have that second piece of toast? I just want what's best for you." The concern trolling delivery in his letter was just nauseating.

But he assumed two things incorrectly: 1) everyone can easily be slim and 2) everyone should be slim because being fat is worse than any other life choice. Does he write these little notes to meth users?

The idea that everyone can be slim is hugely problematic. The infrastructure in the US (and strong anti-public transit lobbies funded by corporations like AAA) stifles opportunities for people to cycle or walk more in their daily lives. Office workers in CT often have to drive some place to get food for lunch. What? And I won't even start on the economic and class issues of healthier foods' costs. Why is Whole Foods just for rich folks?

But here are some numbers to show you how hard it is for people to eat healthy in the US. I've attached a pdf of chili's nutritional information from their menu. When I moved here from England, I couldn't eat half of most portions I was served anywhere and most salads I've encountered in the US have about 1/2 of a shorter, less active woman's daily calories. I don't eat at chili's (I avoid chains) but check it out. A 30 year old 5'5" woman who weighs 130 lbs and does nothing but her desk job needs 1574 calories a day to maintain her weight. She could eat the Chili's Quesadilla Explosion Salad every day and 2 0% fat yoghurts and she would get fat over time. A little. Bit by bit. About a pound a month. But it would happen. And that's a f*****' "salad". In fact, only one of these salads would be less than a 1/3 of her daily needs. If she ate any of the others three times a day she'd also get fat.

Yes, everybody who's fat makes choices but it's not as simple as that. Not by a long shot. Even foods that people trying to lose weight might select would actually make a lot of them fatter.

On top of that, I just want to say that fat-shaming does no good and is really a form of bullying and there should be a much more diversified beauty standard anyway because the one in place now is just repressive. Women didn't have anorexia or bulimia 150 years ago (though we have always had concern trolling mothers, as Jane Austen points out). I would kind of like to turn on the tv and see that lady on the news. It would make a nice change and be affirming that ladies of all varieties are capable and deserve the spotlight, not just the ones that fit a very narrow standard for beauty which normally predetermines who gets on the big or little screen. And I hold the same views for men. It'd be awesome if the male news anchors looked more like normal guys, maybe even a little chubby cuz lots of people are.

I think everyone was right to tell that d*****canoe to scurry back under his rock. He had no right to tell a stranger that, and fat shaming is not ok anyway, least of all because lots of aspects of US life are not amenable to weightloss so people are being criticized for being something that it's hard to avoid being in this country—which is why so many people are obese or overweight. I have several friends who are fat and who have turned their lives upside down because they think they're lesser people for it. I wonder where they got that idea? (Ricky Gervais, I'm looking at you, you normally-hilarious snaggle toothed ****).

::wanders off to watch Italian housemates assemble homemade lasagna and tiramisu for dinner::

Attached Files

Chilis Nutrition Menu Generic.pdf (357.3 KB, 137 views)

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"You know, times are changing. Ladies can do stuff now and you're going to have to learn how to deal with it."
"What? Were you saying something? Look, I don't speak Spanish."

Not that what that putz said to the lady was right, but...

No one is forcing people to eat the full portion in one sitting, you know! Usually, even if you eat in, you can take leftovers home and eat them later. And by the way, there's no shame in bringing your own food to the office for lunch -- making a pasta salad or a sandwich ain't all that hard.

I agree, but how come then there are no PSAs showing Julia Roberts making sandwiches in the morning for her and her husband? Or maybe Angeline Jolie and Brad Pitt getting their food wrapped up at a restaurant after eating a 1/4 of each course? Instead this and this are what is actually being broadcast to Americans. It's total fat-shaming instead of actual demonstrations of how to survive the strip mall eating apocalypse.

I found this brief snippet about Christina Hendricks rather telling. Apparently she got fat-shamed forever until finally someone was like "I can't breathe! You're so hot悠 need my inhaler!" And here's a link on how this fat-shaming culture affects guys.

That guy who insulted the news anchor was just verbalizing something that Americans everywhere say to themselves everyday, because they've picked it up from society and it just has to stop葉hat's why he needed to be shouted down so much. Bullying is not cool. Fat-shaming is not cool. If the issue is health, then it needs to be about health溶ot about looks.

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"You know, times are changing. Ladies can do stuff now and you're going to have to learn how to deal with it."
"What? Were you saying something? Look, I don't speak Spanish."

Hey, what about Julia Roberts' husband making sandwiches for her and him? :p

I don't know -- even in "strip mall areas", one can generally find independent restaurants serving relatively healthy food. One just has to look beyond Wendy's and Chili's! And many people aren't forced to have a 4 hr round-trip commute. They do it by choice, since they're not satisfied with a 1500 sf house and a small back yard. They think bigger is better. Fortunately, that trend is changing to some extent among younger people.

She's a news-anchor. She's likely paid well enough to have her choice of lifestyle.

I think if Julia Roberts' husband made the sandwiches all the rest of us ladies would don those new Nike jerseys, bum rush her, and carry off her man. Sandwiches are delicious.

And do you read Mr. Moneymustache? Or maybe just that commute thing he wrote?

I have to disagree with your news anchor salary argument. Firstly, we don't know her salary. And even if we did, we don't know about her life. We have no right to judge strangers, even if we "would do things differently"預nd I'm not a mother, or a busy career woman (yet) so I at least couldn't say. Secondly, you are privileging a very particular "lifestyle" you assume she has means to support/access. What's so wrong with her current lifestyle? So 1) we don't have all the facts, and 2), even if we did, that doesn't change how fat-shaming leads to a belief that her current lifestyle is inferior to another one she should supposedly aspire to. How messed up is it to have hierarchies of lives people should be living?

I would really hope that if someone said something mean about me I'd hulk out on national tv and tell them that's not right or at least, "don'tbetalkingtomelikeyouknowme!".

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"You know, times are changing. Ladies can do stuff now and you're going to have to learn how to deal with it."
"What? Were you saying something? Look, I don't speak Spanish."

For some reason this thread made me think of this:

Full Metal Jacket: The Jelly Doughnut - YouTube

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I don't agree with her assertion that he was a bully. Total douche? Absolutely.

"Bully" is the new buzzword, esp. with the advent of the internets, texting etc.

Very media savvy of her to use that term, makes the discussion current and controversial.

Win-win for her career and draws attention to the douche lawyer as well-- free advertising.

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