Posted on 08/12/2022 5:07:15 PM PDT by simpson96
Iraqi actress Enas Taleb is taking legal action against The Economist magazine after it used her image as a cover photo for a story about obesity among women in the Middle East.
The British weekly's story — Why women are fatter than men in the Arab world — argued that social barriers and a lack of access to jobs were keeping women indoors and preventing them from going to gyms or playing sport in public areas, leading to an obesity crisis.
At the end of the article, the magazine quoted some women as saying that one of the widespread social norms in Arab countries is that many men prefer them “to be Rubenesque”.
The magazine did not interview Taleb, but its story concluded with the line: “Iraqis often cite Enas Taleb, an actress with ample curves, as the ideal of beauty."(snip)
Earlier this week, she told the Arabic news channel, Al Arabiya, that the article was “a great insult to the Arab woman in general and the Iraqi woman in particular”.
The mother of two claimed that she is not as large as the photo depicts her, accusing the magazine of “manipulating and distorting” it.
“I have been facing bullying and offensive comments,” she told the station from Amman, Jordan, where she resides. Taleb is seeking compensation for emotional, mental and social damage.
She did not provide details about the lawsuit.
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OH yeah i can see how she’d be sensitive to that.
Pleasingly plump?
Damn she’s skinny by Wally world and DG Standards in USA
She be fatish
Every now and then those burqa thingies kind of make sense.
She be fatah.
Don’t want people to notice you’re fat, lose the extra fat.
Captain! Thar be whales!
—Montgomery Scott
Fat. Obese. She should divert her legal monies toward getting more healthy. Or not. Her choice.
what a tub of goo
Fatwa
Lady, you are fat.
she’s what used to me called a fullbody...
She fat.
Well, the story did call her condition “the ideal of beauty.” Got a page missing from my book. But I’m reminded of the DC Redskins Hoggettes shopping for clothes: “does this tablecloth make me look fat?”
There are, as most likely know, specific numerical criteria for obesity. If you are at or above a specific BMI (body mass index) you are obese. If she falls into an overweight or obese BMI category I don’t know how she can successfully sue someone for making an accurate remark. I don’t support fat shaming people, but she is the one filing a suit, so she’s putting herself out there for more scrutiny.
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
*ping*
I don’t think she has a case.
On the bright side, cows are halal
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