Comments on: Marie Claire Thinks Fat People Are Gross

By: Piper

Piper — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:13:37 +0000

Alyssa and Bee, you’re wrong. You can be fit and fat! This blog is for people who taut the virtues of health at every size. You are generalizing and putting all fat people into the same category. You cannot look at someone and determine their health. Yes, some fat people are overweight because they eat poorly and don’t exercise but those are not indicative of ALL fat people!

By: alyssa

alyssa — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:24:08 +0000

Let me start this off by saying that I’m not tiny and I’ve seen some beautiful women who are twice my size at least. Also, I think the comments that were made are harsh and ugly. However, If someone is severely obese, its unlikely that they are in outstanding health, and I can only imagine that that was supposed to be the point of the article. I’m sure there are exceptions, but not a majority. Comparing heroin addiction to over eating isn’t so far off. Behavioral addictions and eating disorders can be the hardest to overcome. I’m not saying everyone who is obese over eats, but I’m sure it happens. I’m all for accepting people of every size as valid and worthy human beings, but I don’t think a body image that is potentially dangerous should be simply accepted as a norm in the name of equality. To me, its just as disturbing and unpleasant to see someone who is far past the point of just being simply over weight as it is to see someone who is malnourished and anorexic.

By: Jasmine Marie

Jasmine Marie — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:17:47 +0000

I thought this website was anti-weight loss and body acceptance?

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:10:26 +0000

I think the author of that post may have been let go. There’s no announcement of it on the blog, but there also have been no entries since Oct. 29. I think it’s a daily, M-F blog, so the lack of entries, following all the negative publicity, smells like a result… just not a result that anyone (Marie Claire) wants articulated, as that would surely stir the pot again.

By: Bee

Bee — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:18:01 +0000

I actually think that Kelly has a valid point. She didn’t phrase it too well, but I don’t think its just her ‘using her personal issues to attack fatties’.

Society IS promoting obesity. For as much as fat people get abused, they are also being soothed and uplifted and comforted with this idea that fat is ok. Every day there is a new study linking obesity to something genetic, something environmental, something cultural….we’re losing track of personal responsibility, of culpability. ‘BEING FAT’ isn’t the problem – thats an aesthetic thing, and we do need to stop focusing on how people look. But the reason BEHIND being fat? Usually, its poor diet and lack of exercise. (Yes, I know you will all hate me instantly for saying that, and I’m sorry).

But its true. Its just the basics of how the human body works – you put more calories in than you put out, you gain weight. This isn’t to say that its necessarily BAD – people, particularly women, are naturally much heavier than the images we see on magazines and television. But what IS bad is this fanaticism that ITS OK TO BE FAT! Nobody worry! Lets bond together and just support each other! Its everybody elses problem that they don’t like that we’re fat!

For MOST of americans/brits/aussies, being fat is an indicator that you are in poor health. And we shouldn’t say ‘thats ok! people come in all sizes!’ Just because it happens, because you are that different size, does not make it healthy. Just as we don’t want to, and shouldn’t, raise our kids to believe that all women should weigh 90 lbs and all men should have six pack abs, we shouldn’t raise the next generation to think that its ok to become morbidly obese. Its not healthy. (And please, please…..I know that some of you are raw vegans and bike everywhere – you are the exceptions. You are the educated minority. John Smith down the block is not the exception, he is the rule. I really don’t want to hear that I’m pulling this ‘its not healthy’ thing out my ass, I’m not. Its a fact.)

By: littlem

littlem — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:03:39 +0000

Yeah, I thought that. I thought “Is this the first time we’re going to get to see the inimitable ‘Some of my best friends are …’ ” statement rescinded and revised to past tense in print and in real time?

*headshake*

By: littlem

littlem — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:01:59 +0000

"I’m sure that a lot of people think the same way just because they don’t know any better, and it’s articles like these that perpetuate the whole cycle and drum these ideas into the general public." Nail. Hammer. Bang.

By: Layla

Layla — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:53:05 +0000

I’d feel bad for her if she wasn’t taking her own issues out on the rest of the world. As it is, I just think she’s a grade A asshole. Hating yourself does not give you a free ticket to hate on others. Moreover, I’d argue that making a conscious effort to NOT continually judge every single out of place hair on everyone else’s head will actually provide a lot more room for self-love and acceptance.

But what am I saying? Self-acceptance would mean accepting yourself even if you were, or got OMGFAT! And everyone knows that’s gross! Gah, I just can’t even – this article still makes me turn into flames of fury.

By: Shishkani

Shishkani — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:19:51 +0000

There’s one part of all of this I find funny – imagining the sheer astonishment she must feel at the fury she has unleashed. I would guess that she had no idea of the backlash she would provoke, when she first posted the article.

I imagine her going to check if there have been any replies to her new post, and finding hundreds of angry ones having cropped up; a red, fiery glow from the screen on her face, while an expression of horror dawns across it as she realizes what she’s done to her career. Mean-spirited as it is, this scenario makes me laugh. Anyone who put something asinine on the internet and never realized what kind of flak they were going to get for their own stupidity – not just at having these thoughts, but at sharing them with the world – I have absolutely no sympathy for.

By: Smaug

Smaug — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:39:29 +0000

Though I firmly believe that everyone’s entitled to their opinion- this woman is truly insane! what on earth prompted her to make these outrageous comments!? it’s almost hysterical, if it wasn’t so offensive.