Khadija Khatab, sans niqab.
Your thoughts on Egyptian Television's "no fat chicks" policy?
Posted on 08/18/2016 12:26:17 PM PDT by Loyalist
Egypt’s state-run television has suspended eight of its female presenters for being overweight — telling them they can return to the air only after they go on a diet.
The move sparked outrage among women’s groups and members of parliament but state television authorities show no sign of backing down.
The presenters were given a month to lose weight and told they will not be allowed back on screen until they have an “appropriate appearance,” according to the Youm7 newspaper.
The decision was made by Safaa Hegazi, the female chief of Egypt’s ERTU public broadcaster.
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Khadija Khatab, one of the women taken off air, said the decision was “humiliating and even scandalous.”
“It is just an attempt to get rid of the successful [presenters] and retain others who present programs that have no strong content,” she told the al-Watan newspaper. But Majdi Lasheen, a state television official, defended the move and said it should sound “the alarm for all TV presenters that they have to pay attention to their appearances, including body weight.”
“This is the beginning of a plan to apply discipline and regulations designed to restore the beautiful image of all official TV stations,” he said.
“The decision to suspend the eight presenters is aimed at giving them a chance to change their looks in order to fit appearance on television.”
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Khadija Khatab, sans niqab.
Your thoughts on Egyptian Television's "no fat chicks" policy?
WHERE’S THE NAG GANG??????
You know what might be helpful here. Some kind of garment that would cover the face and body and maybe just leave the eyes exposed.
I wondered where Gretchen Carlson was working these days.
That’s a chick? Looks trannyish.
Candy Crowley!
Sorry, diet ain’t gonna help.
They just don’t want their set to collapse.
Reminds me of a scene in a sitcom (can’t remember it’s name) where the main guy was squeezed in a car full of fat ladies, and a police car siren was heard.
He said that they probably went past a truck weigh station without pulling into it.
I gotta lot of problems with Gretchen, but her looks ain’t one of ‘em.
I’m reading FR’s snarky comments and would bet my last dollar not one of you is the high class model of beauty you make yourselves out to be. There’s nothing wrong with the broadcaster who looks like an average everyday person.
I was gonna make a comment about the current crop of “weather chicks” in the Sacramento area, but I am already on thin ice with the respected FR “admins...”
You would lose that bet.
I am the ugliest "high class model of beauty" you could ever see.
I'm a guy.
“There’s nothing wrong with the broadcaster who looks like an average everyday person.”
Except average everyday people do not get gigs as broadcasters. It’s inherent in the nature of the business that you have to be good looking, because YOU are partly the product that tv stations are trying to sell, and in order to sell it, they need people to want to look at you.
they could have major surgery on their faces and become nearly unrecognizable
Uhhh, what was this thread about again?
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