Comments on: Hallie Vs. Alley

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:15:10 +0000

What was said about Kristie Alley reminds me of a saying, “love and hate aren’t much different, both are about spending time thinking about the person”

I wonder what the person who wrote the article about Kristie Alley would think, if he was mistaken as a fat “fetishist”. I mean fantasizing about what Kristie must be eating, that sounds like someone who’s attracted to something.

By: anna

anna — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:17:26 +0000

tabloids really get on my nerves…i hate how they turn good into bad and vice versa.

By: E. Black

E. Black — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:20:59 +0000

Lisa, if that’s what you call an attack did you read the article about Kirstie? That’s an attack and those people weren’t being sarcastic. Women are always going to be targets whether it’s to each other or anyone else. We’re always targets and we’re always attacked. Sarcastic jokes are meant to alleviate even though some people will take everything to heart regardless.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:31:44 +0000

I stopped reading the bulletin boards at IMDB after I got sucked into a thread about what awhale Bryce Dallas Howard was when pregnant, and when one dude said he wouldn’t *let* his future wife get that fat when pregnant.

I got a good laugh for a second, but then I felt sick. It’s all about managing the female body, isn’t it?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:41:37 +0000

It may have been intended as sarcastic hyperbole, but you went for a target that’s pretty acceptable to attack, as targets go. Attacking a woman for not being a good enough mother based on the size of her ass is a low blow– and it’s still a low blow even when you claim it’s a joke. And it’s out of place on a blog that’s by and about women.

By: Weetabix

Weetabix — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:54:00 +0000

It was intended as sarcastic hyperbole, as Cindy S suggested.

By: mo pie

mo pie — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:34:47 +0000

I think, as Cindy pointed out, the Halle Berry criticism was deliberately ridiculous. At least that’s how I took it.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:32:52 +0000

I agree with Anna. I think post-baby weight loss is even more dependent upon the particular person than other kinds of weight loss. In my mother’s group (about 30 people) we have all different body types. Some of the women were overweight to begin with and claim that having a baby was the best weight loss plan ever — two of them are more than 20 pounds below their pre-pregnancy weight with no particular effort. One mother, who was thin before she got pregnant, is having trouble keeping weight on and looks emaciated in spite of eating enormous amounts of food. Some people (myself included) are having a very different experience in spite of healthy eating and lots of exercise, and it really seems to be very dependent on factors that are really hard to pinpoint.

I am not on board with judging anybody, famous or not, for postpartum weight gain or loss. Halle Berry’s nice ass is not evidence that she is a bad mother.

By: CindyS

CindyS — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:55:38 +0000

I wonder if anyone has done any kind of study on why so many people feel it is necessary to punish people for being fat? Fat people clearly elicit some kind of deep fear in certain people that makes them react defensively, even viciously.

And Anna .. FWIW, I don’t think anyone is actually suggesting that Halle Berry is a bad mother because she lost weight quickly after her pregnancy. They’re just trying to illustrate that people make weird assumptions about fat people’s moral failings based on the fact that they ARE fat, but they don’t do the same for thin people.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:58:44 +0000

I don’t really like the unstated assumption there that there’s something wrong with Halle Berry, as a parent or as a person. I don’t think we know a lot about celebs, and this idea that she must have been being a bad parent in order to get down to a particular weight really leaves me feel chilled.