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Shamed, Flamed, Harassed: What It’s Like To Be Called Fat Online
New York Times ^

Posted on 10/03/2014 10:29:24 AM PDT by BJ1

Search for the word “fat” on Twitter and you’ll likely find a torrent of criticisms, insults, and jokes at overweight people’s expense. Now researchers have undertaken such an experiment in a much more systematic way, across a variety of platforms — and what they’ve found may give the public health community a look at the reality of being overweight online.

(Excerpt) Read more at op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: bbwmeme; fat; fatshaming; feministrant; healthczars; obamunism; obesity; pc; psychobable; socialmedia; waronwomenmeme
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To: BJ1

The one thing that the article does not mention is the way liberals associate fatness with conservative middle America. They are constantly sneering at “fat” Red State yahoos. They are the ones who started calling attention to fat shoppers at Walmart and ridiculing them. Any time you see some Lib cartoon attacking conservatives, they almost always depict the conservative as a fat, ignorant, Southern redneck. In the minds of liberals, “fat” goes hand in hand with stupid and conservative. That is why there is such hatred and why it is as accepted as it is.


21 posted on 10/03/2014 10:41:45 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: BJ1

So fat people have thin skin?


22 posted on 10/03/2014 10:42:57 AM PDT by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: BJ1
It's even worse when someone posts your picture online.


23 posted on 10/03/2014 10:44:54 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: dead

Poor doggie.


24 posted on 10/03/2014 10:46:21 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: BJ1

“a look at the reality of being overweight online.”

As opposed to being overweight offline?

Remember, no one’s fat at an online dating sight. Some are merely “Ruebenesque”.


25 posted on 10/03/2014 10:47:17 AM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo Man is always intense.)
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To: BJ1

Wow, this article is backwards:

“Ms. Chou noted that psychological research has documented the ill effects of weight stigma”

Ms. Chou, whatever those effects are, they pale in comparison to the ill effects of being overweight! “Weight stigma”, as you call it, is a healthy societal shaming mechanism that is intended to motivate people to both lead a healthier lifestyle and be better contributors to society.

Some take it too far, no doubt, but if we rid ourselves of it entirely, we would be doing fat people no favors.


26 posted on 10/03/2014 10:48:27 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I will be the one contrasting what actually happened in the world with what the Bible says: The Arabs named the stars, not God....However they ignore 95% of 75% of their base voters.


27 posted on 10/03/2014 10:50:08 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: DemforBush

Well, the “ruebenesque” ones probably have a college degree, or at least own a thesaurus. Most are “full figured” or “curvy” or “big & beautiful”.

I don’t know if there is some scale that you can use to interpret those in a meaningful way, or if they are all equivalent. Actually, come to think of it, I am not really interested in finding out!


28 posted on 10/03/2014 10:50:48 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I will be the one contrasting what actually happened in the world with what the Bible says: The Arabs named the stars, not God....However they ignore 95% of 75% of their base voters.


29 posted on 10/03/2014 10:51:01 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Disambiguator

You see: Any size shorts can fit because they squeeze the fat out of the way.


30 posted on 10/03/2014 10:52:29 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama Will Say 'War on Women' But Not 'War on ISIS)
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To: BJ1

After 20 years of working in a prison, I am immune to name-calling. I am overweight, and that’s usually what the convicts go for first (because, of course, they’re idiots). I usually follow up the insult by saying “yep, fat but free!” or “I’ll be thinking real hard about your insult when I get HOME and open that BEER” or “pfft, amateur!” and walk away smiling. My fellow officers ask me why I don’t write the convicts up. It’s simple: every convict I’ve ever met would rather let me get in a “free shot” than deal with tickets, which take away privileges and affects their paroles. So it’s a big game really. The few times when I’ve run into people insulting me in the real world I’ve done something similar, and the insulter has walked away, baffled. People (especially liberals) are so thin skinned these days.

CC


31 posted on 10/03/2014 10:53:05 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: Disambiguator

That creature has only itself to blame ...


32 posted on 10/03/2014 10:56:37 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Ray76

>> How would anyone know your weight unless you tell them?

They see a picture of you on Facebook putting away fried chicken?


33 posted on 10/03/2014 10:56:42 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed is his demon)
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To: BJ1

I’m in shape. Round is a shape.


34 posted on 10/03/2014 10:57:29 AM PDT by dware (3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
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To: Vendome

Them there posters is funny. Especially the “it’s the law” one.


35 posted on 10/03/2014 10:58:13 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed is his demon)
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To: Disambiguator

I must say, I’ve never seen Daisy Dukes look like a tourniquet before.


36 posted on 10/03/2014 11:00:55 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: JimRed

I wonder what’s wrong with your looks since you get so easily disgusted by other people’s physical faults. Of course, I found your post quite unattractive for starters...


37 posted on 10/03/2014 11:13:15 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: Disambiguator

Her shorts are about to burst.


38 posted on 10/03/2014 11:14:45 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: BJ1
I've been fat all my life. There was a time when insults about my weight used to bother me. Today, I let it all roll off my back. If you don't like me as I am, then it's your problem, not mine.

One thing I don't need is to have the insults classified as hate speech. Why would I need “government” to label those insults as hate speech and make them a crime?

We have become a nation of whiney wusses looking to government for protection.

39 posted on 10/03/2014 11:42:10 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: BJ1

40 posted on 10/03/2014 11:58:10 AM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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