What's really depressing is how many people in the comments
agreed with the silly woman, slapping her on the back and telling her how it's great she has the guts to come out and express this view openly. =/ It makes one feel like coming in dressing as the Joker to crash the party and tell them what a bad joke it is.
"Ha ha, hee hee, ho ho. And I thought my jokes were bad."I made a comment myself actually, under the name "Mana Lord". I'll quote myself here, actually:
* Mana Lord
* March 14, 2009
* 02:49 PM
I agree completely with you Charlie, it seems Australia has a lot of bitchy, vain and horribly judgmental people if these comments are anything to go by.
How terribly self-righteous and hurtful. Why do people even CARE? Does looking at curvier people make their eyes fall out, does it? I'm skinny myself and I barely see any skinny bashing- just fat bashing. All the lazy, nasty, paranoid cliches are just sad. Why so hateful? Or is it because larger people are an 'acceptable' target to prey upon?
As possum said, if you don't have a weight problem, you probably have other problems that are less visible- no-one is perfect! There's many more problems and issues in the world to worry about than this one.
Look at things like curvier women being celebrated in the past, people didn't 'instinctively' find them horrible, now did they? The fat phobia is therefore not a cultural thing, not a natural thing, just an obsession with some sort of conformity- because we all need to look 'perfect' for everyone's viewing pleasure, now don't we?.
I will say this; there's nothing wrong with wanting to be skinny, or being skinny(I know)... but it's not some godly ideal we should all look up to. We should just be ourselves, or whatever we want to be for ourselves, not someone else's expectations based on a fictional idea of being 'natural' and conformity.
Of course, I should have said that it was just a cultural thing, not that it
wasn't, but, ah, typos in long posts. *sighs* I think I made my point well enough though. A couple of others there like Lollie and fatty also stated that they were proud of their curves, which was great to see, at least.