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Fri 18/07/03 at 00:43
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I've just been looking at a chat show where the host and all the auidence members were having a go at people that are larger than most had revealing clothes on.

Before everyone says "thats digusting" just think about what alot of people (young/old, girl/boy) does, that is to show off their bidy in the best way that they can. Now is this only ever going to be for the thin people among us? Will the fashion designers take even more control over us? While a lot of the American youth are dressing up and vampires, walking around the streets armed to the teeth and so on. Is it really worth worrying about how a few indivuals dress?

Think about this, when ever you and your mates are walking through your local town etc and you see a larger person what do you "god, they're fat ain't they" "what a fat git". Get the picture. Now if you were to replace the word fat with the word black/indian/muslim/christian/irish etc you might just understand how offencesive it can be. You don't pick people out just on skin colour so why do it with there weight?

I belive that the root of the problem is the media. I read the daliy star (yes, i know it rubbish, it's just cheap!) in that if ever a large person is mentioned then out come the pie jokes and the cheap gags. The surpising thing is it is not just the tabloids that have these remarks in them. Ever the style magazine in the times? It is stick thin super models. TV as well compare the celebraties, TV presentors and actors that are thin to the ones that aren't. I think you find that the thinner ones heavily out way the lager ones (no pun intened).

I think that some how we need to stop this obbession we have we our weight. By all means eat healthily as any doctor will tell you but should we all be going for the size 10 look? should we all have ripling muscles? Just think how boring the world might get. As Human being in the last century we have seem to have forgotten what matters most not whats on the outside but whats on the inside.

Thatnks for reading. Please excuse the spelling.
Fri 18/07/03 at 09:07
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Being fat is hardly comparable to being part of a racial minority. A black person can hardly wake up one morning and begin a "health drive" towards whiter skin.

Why do people think fat people wearing revealing clothes is disgusting? Because, quite frankly, it is.

Think about it. Why do people want to show off their bodies? Why do people want to look at them doing it? Because, like fine art, a good body is pleasing to the eye, while a shall we say "not so good" body is the visual equivalent of lsitening to someone scrape their nails down a chalkboard.

ie - it's not pleasant.

Why don't we see many hugely overweight supermodels or pornstars? Because that's not what people want to see. And at the end of the day, people will ridicule that which they dislike. It's human nature.
Fri 18/07/03 at 07:42
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Yep, good post, made me think. I'm very guilty of riddiculing fat people, but I don't do it in such a way that I laugh at them. I get frustrated with fat people, as the majority of them I've seen in my school are bloody pigs. Now, if they have an eating disorder or glandular problem, that's different, that's completely understandable, but these people do not, they are simply eating machines...
Fri 18/07/03 at 03:36
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Its the same for hair colour and so on.

Nice post.
Fri 18/07/03 at 03:08
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Fat people will always be riddiculed. Hell im guilty of it all the time.

Being fat is being unhealthy, i think that statement alone should be encouraging people not to let themselves get massive.
Fri 18/07/03 at 00:43
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I've just been looking at a chat show where the host and all the auidence members were having a go at people that are larger than most had revealing clothes on.

Before everyone says "thats digusting" just think about what alot of people (young/old, girl/boy) does, that is to show off their bidy in the best way that they can. Now is this only ever going to be for the thin people among us? Will the fashion designers take even more control over us? While a lot of the American youth are dressing up and vampires, walking around the streets armed to the teeth and so on. Is it really worth worrying about how a few indivuals dress?

Think about this, when ever you and your mates are walking through your local town etc and you see a larger person what do you "god, they're fat ain't they" "what a fat git". Get the picture. Now if you were to replace the word fat with the word black/indian/muslim/christian/irish etc you might just understand how offencesive it can be. You don't pick people out just on skin colour so why do it with there weight?

I belive that the root of the problem is the media. I read the daliy star (yes, i know it rubbish, it's just cheap!) in that if ever a large person is mentioned then out come the pie jokes and the cheap gags. The surpising thing is it is not just the tabloids that have these remarks in them. Ever the style magazine in the times? It is stick thin super models. TV as well compare the celebraties, TV presentors and actors that are thin to the ones that aren't. I think you find that the thinner ones heavily out way the lager ones (no pun intened).

I think that some how we need to stop this obbession we have we our weight. By all means eat healthily as any doctor will tell you but should we all be going for the size 10 look? should we all have ripling muscles? Just think how boring the world might get. As Human being in the last century we have seem to have forgotten what matters most not whats on the outside but whats on the inside.

Thatnks for reading. Please excuse the spelling.

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