{"id":16413,"date":"2010-10-27T10:18:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T18:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=16413"},"modified":"2010-10-27T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T18:19:39","slug":"marie-claire-stands-behind-blogger-grossed-out-by-fat-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/living\/marie-claire-stands-behind-blogger-grossed-out-by-fat-people","title":{"rendered":"Marie Claire Stands Behind Blogger “Grossed Out” By Fat People"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yesterday several blogs released a collective fury at a blog post on Marie Claire<\/em>‘s website by Maura Kelly in which the author outlines her disgust for fat people through a thin review of the show Mike & Molly<\/em>, which portrays an overweight couple. The writer compared the site of a fat person to the sight of a stumbling drunk or drug addict.<\/p>\n My initial response was:\u00c2\u00a0Hmm, being overweight is one thing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d those people are downright obese!<\/em>And while I think our country’s obsession with physical perfection is unhealthy, I also think it’s at least equally crazy, albeit in the other direction, to be implicitly promoting obesity! Yes, anorexia is sick, but at least some slim models are simply naturally skinny. No one who is as fat as Mike and Molly can be healthy. And obesity is costing our country\u00c2\u00a0far<\/em> more in terms of all the related health problems we are paying for, by way of our insurance, than any other health problem, even cancer.<\/p>\n So anyway, yes, I think I’d be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other … because I’d be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything. To be brutally honest, even in real life, I find it aesthetically displeasing to watch a very, very fat person simply walk across a room \u00e2\u20ac\u201d just like I’d find it distressing if I saw a very drunk person stumbling across a bar or a heroine addict slumping in a chair.<\/p>\n Now, don’t go getting the wrong impression: I have a few friends who could be called plump. I’m not some size-ist jerk. {Marie Claire<\/a>}<\/p><\/blockquote>\n