There’s nothing worse than skinny people being offended by proxy in the name of how they feel others feel.
He wrote it.
They published it.
A Virtue Signaling Posse.
The article.
Then why did the morons publish it?
Stupid writer writes stupid article. Which they published.
So, why don’t they just let him answer the phone and deal with the complaints for a day, and then counsel him to be a bit nicer in future?
Why do they have to make a big show of sacking him? Can’t he just write a mea culpa column and get on with it?
Last night my son told me that the average weight of American women has just reached the average weight of American men in the 1960’s (160#). He stated that the current “body acceptance “ trend is killing women as obesity is very unhealthy.
The reaction to what was supposed to be a humorous piece just proves that people have no sense of humor anymore.
Sounds like a great opportunity for selling ads for pie and cake stores. Not so muck for fitness centers.
So I just read the article-he was poking fun at southerners more that he was at fat people. No one jumped to the defense of those who speak with a southern accent.
Fat shaming is a very POSITIVE thing to do. Fat is dangerous and ugly. It’s as bad as telling an anorexic person that she looks great.
OK, I broke tradition and actually read the article.
I still say, the guy wrote for them for 30 years and they fire him for one silly article? Really? And he was an unpaid columnist, they never paid him in all that time... and they fired him?
Self-righteous prigs.
People are too fat these days. Some can’t help it but most can.
The guy behind me on an airline flight screamed at me to “stop moving!” on one flight. He was so big his knees stuck into my seat back. Flight attendant broke it up.
Is the firing of an unpaid humor columnist from a tiny community newspaper in Fergus Falls MN —— considered national news?
More space for Hotdish recipies
“Not only did this offend many of our readers, it offended us,” the editorial said. “Bullying others is not OK. Body shaming is not OK. … The list goes on, but you get the picture. Let’s debate the issues, not make personal attacks on people.”
I’m betting the paper has no problem accepting Trump-bashing articles.
I was placed between two over 300 pounders flying standby between Chicago and Seattle. The plane was completely full. The flight attendant guided me to my seat. The guy was sitting in the window seat and his beautiful bride was sitting in the aisle seat.
It would have been like the scene when Forrest Gump first tried to ride on the school bus (you can’t sit here) if it hadn’t been for the flight attendant who insisted they slide together or let me sit in the middle seat. One might think that since they were married that they would cuddle up together and let me take the aisle or window seat, but they preferred that I sit between them.
There was virtually no chance that the seat dividers would go down. Even the food trays that come down from the seat backs ahead were a problem.
Both were extremely unhappy about my presence and made it no secret that they blamed me for the intrusion. They had strong BO and sweated profusely during the entire 4 hour flight. My pants and shirt were soaked when I got off the plane.
Fortunately, I had some ear buds and was able to listen to music and read a book using my phone which made the time go by more quickly. It took a couple of runs through the laundry before their scent came off my clothing.
It is surprising to me that people choose to live their lives morbidly obese, but I have irrational behaviors myself. But it is a choice... no one is forcing others to consume far more calories than their body can use, that I am aware of. It is especially amazing to me the number of celebrities whose looks are important to their careers who also have become super fat. I am speaking of people like Brendon Fraser, Russell Crowe, and so many formerly good looking female stars. It is especially crazy when your livelihood depends on your appearance.
See Hillary still has some pull.