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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
02/26/09

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Daily Fail. 2 hours later there are 250 comments on the original article.

Anyone want to take odds on how long it'll take to get to 1000?
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kittens
02/26/09

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homegirl is my size in the fat suit. UGH
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tscheese
02/26/09

@kittens: I bet you look a million times better, though. Your skin isn't made out of weird foam rubber - it probably acts like skin. Also, you probably don't run around saying "OMG TEAL CARDIGAN PINK DRESS AWFUL BELT METALLIC BOOTS, O HAI FASHUN PEEPL!"

Because most of us who are in double-digit sizes? Just try to generally act like human beings and dress for some degree of comfort and style! We don't go out of our way to provoke the ultra-svelte fashion set and then act all butt-hurt when they wonder why we decided to put on some Muppets as rainment.

I'm in a size range that's skewing juuuust above traditional misses' sizes these days, so I feel your pain.
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CherriSpryte
02/26/09

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"being a size 22 is a shock" ..... poor baby. Know what? I'm a size 22 every damn day. Its not, actually, that shocking. The fact that your size 22 "fat suit" made you look like a lumpy shapeless potato was mildly shocking, as was the fact that you found it appropriate to go without a bra.

As someone who has spent considerably more time living in this size 22 body than you did in yours, I'd like to point out that perhaps your challenges resulted from such an awesome body being new to you. Despite sharing the same dimensions, I can sit in chairs and maneuver tight spaces quite easily! Its amazing!

But I know what you're talking about, because people stare at me on the street, too! ... but its mostly construction workers, and they go to great lengths to make clear that they like what they see. No one actually faints in fear or retreats in horror. Now THAT is shocking!
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kaiwhakamarie
02/26/09

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I hate it when celebrities/reporters wear fat suits in an attempt to 'prove' something about the stigma overweight people suffer in society.

Why not follow a real overweight person around? Interview them and ask them how they are treated on a daily basis, and gawk at the people who gawk at them, instead of having a skinny person parade around wearing a fat suit? It's so offensive.

That said, one thing I find even more offensive than reporters wearing fat suits for posterity are actors and actresses who wear fat suits for movies. I remember reading an article with Gywnneth where she defended Shallow Hal by saying something along the lines of the movie is about him seeing her inner beauty, blah blah blah. Oh really? So you wearing a fat suit for a movie in which the character is constantly made fun of, wearing daisy dukes and texas-sized thongs, and eating Jack Black under the table - that's about inner beauty? Pff.
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Sputnik_Sweetheart
02/26/09

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Daily Mail (and Tyra, etc.), thank you to opening up my eyes to the horrible mistreatment and discrimination against cute, thin women in bad fat suits and frumpy clothes.

Sigh.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
02/26/09

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"First of all, don't worry: the writer, Kate Faithfull, is not actually overweight."

Oh, well, thank goodness then. I thought her reports were going to have to be mandatorily discredited purely on that account.

*breathes sigh of relief*

*rolls eyes hard*

*wonders why it's not the weekend yet*
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Eric Northman is mine
02/26/09

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I loath segments like this, they expect to be treated badly and so on some unconscious level they change their behavior so they can get the results they need for their story. Look out how she's dressed for a fashion show, would she wear that at her regular size?At some point they will usually break down al Tyra crying about how awful it is to be fat and then conveniently take of her fat suit and waltz back into her single digit size clothes with relief and carry on with life. *rolls eyes*
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Eric Northman is mine
02/26/09

@Sookie Stackhouse: okay its loathe, a la Tyra....can work be over already. i'm tired of pretending to be busy.
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NewsBunny
02/26/09

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This overweight woman journalist is so sick of this shit. How about we just accept fat people, instead of treating them like circus freaks?

That would include not REPORTING on them like they are something to be exclaimed over.

I refuse to air stories like this. Absolutely disgraceful.
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farmersdaughter
02/26/09

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Ummm, I like the colors she is wearing, am I horribly out of fashion?
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LadyFabulous
02/26/09

@farmersdaughter: Uh... on Monday I went to a lecture wearing an apple green hoodie with my raspberry trench and I have coral nails right now... I (and everyone else) thought it was hot...
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LadyFabulous
02/26/09

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As a *ahem* "fat" person, I've actually never experienced being laughed at or mocked. I know I look good, I dress awesome (in my opinion) and my "thin" friends try to steal my style (it's quite amusing) so... yeah. My two cents.
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EkaterinaBallerina
02/26/09

@LadyFabulous: I was going to say something along the same lines--I'm 30 lbs lighter now than when I was working for a fashion magazine. I attended several shows back then and not once did anyone ever act that way around me. Sometimes I think they draw the attention to themselves (um she's being followed by cameras and the fat suit is quite obviously fake). I also got just as many compliments for my fashion sense back then as I do now.
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LadyFabulous
02/26/09

@EkaterinaBallerina: Yeah, I just figured it was always that I have self confidence and carry myself well, even if I do have a gut. I mean, look at Beth Ditto? Could the girl be any more fierce? And she and I have similar body types. It's all about how you carry yourself!
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EkaterinaBallerina
02/26/09

@LadyFabulous: Exactly!

And I LOVE Beth Ditto. I'd be staring at her in pure amazement and jealously. I love that she loves herself for exactly who she is.
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ceejeemcbeegee is not here
02/26/09

@LadyFabulous: This reminds me of a co-worker, who bemoans the fact she's not "super-skinny" anymore and wants to lose 30 lbs by next weekend, so she's not eating anything. Except lemon water and the occasional celery stick as a snack.

So today I asked her, "Is your self esteem based completely on how thin you are?" She looked at me funny and laughed ... "Of course it is!" and then the other ladies proceeded to declare that their self-esteem MUST be dictated by their weight because (and this is a quote) "fat people can't be happy... I mean... they are FAT!"

::headdesk::
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LadyFabulous
02/26/09

@ceejeemcbeegee: My head hit the desk so fast I think I gave myself whiplash... AND a headache!
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mariamariamaria
02/26/09

@LadyFabulous: Amen. If you walk through life with a "kick me" sign on, you're gonna get kicked. If you look people in the eye and demand respect, you will probably get it most of the time. There are jerks in the world and there is discrimination, but one's own attitude can make a difference in how one is treated.
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denna
02/26/09

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What the hell? If the goal was to make her horridly and Morbidly Obese, they failed. I find that size and shape attractive, and would ask her out on a date. Oh wait, I don't count in the target audience, because I'm a fattie and a lesbian. Be right back, going to go eat a tub of Haagen-Dazs and cry.
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brendastarlet is on it
02/26/09

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Since when is the crowd at a runway show made up of uniformly elegant people? Perhaps those in the front row, but not the working stiffs.
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BAngieB
02/26/09

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Even without the suit she is a fathead.
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Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.
02/26/09

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You guys, I think you have an unrealistic expectation of head size: [www.theonion.com]

But seriously, can we not relate to the experiences of other people unless we clownishly attempt to live out their wacky exotic lives in a fat suit/burqa/whatever? Jesus, I think these people missed a key stage of childhood emotional development.
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Trulymadlyme
02/26/09

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Fucking, fuck, fuck, fuck you the Daily Mail.

I have had it up to here with the media pulling this stunt. The experience of someone who suffers from look-ism is fucking shocking. I can tell you from experience.

I lost 60 pounds between my second and third year of law school. Mostly due to changes on my own part (I started training for a marathon), but I have to tell you one thing: I was treated completely different by hiring partners and interviewers I had met a year earlier(I mean the same exact people).

This is so fucking wrong on so many levels.
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brendastarlet is on it
02/26/09

@trulymadlyme: can you expound? I am in the middle of my own effort to lose that much. So far, I haven't noticed that much difference in treatment, but I have been more focused on my food diary and getting into things that didn't used to fit.
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Trulymadlyme
02/26/09

@brendastarlet is on it: I just PM-ed you! Let me know if you'd like to chat more!
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