Posted on 02/25/2002 1:48:12 PM PST by hawaiian
The title says it all. There's a big to-do they're discussing on the Pete Wilson show right now about how this fat hippo woman is filing a lawsuit because this health club won't hire her to teach a jazzercise class. Apparently, she's fat as can be, but she says she can "do all the moves," and is filing suit because she says the health club is discriminating against her because she doesn't square with the health club's image.
Never mind, I'm speechless
Just wait 'til she sues to be the model wearing the thong bikini on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. I can feel my dinner coming up now... Blattt...
She's not a bad looking woman, IMHO. I may not flip around to check her out if she was walking down the street, but if she worked in the same office with me, I certainly wouldn't hide my eyes when I saw her coming.
Unlike some of you, I don't think beauty only comes in sizes 0-6, and some of the most wonderful women I have ever known are overweight.
As for her qualifications to do the job: It should be remembered that world-class female athletes whose stock in trade is physical strength do not look like supermodels. For every statuesque, long-legged runner like Mary Decker or lithe Teutonic blonde like Grete Waitz, there is a short, efficient, and unremarkable-looking running machine like Joan Benoit Samuelson. Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova are tennis legends. Jennifer Capriati, with her flat chest and larger-than-you-would expect posterior, is either the best or the second best female player in the world. OTOH, Anna Kournikova is a footnote, and will be forgotten like yesterday's news if she should ever get a little pudgy.
To be fair, we aren't talking about world-class athletes in this case. We are talking about fitness instructors, who have to do more than play the part; they have to look the part. The person who is shouting at you with disco music blaring to work like a beast of burden in order to lose your abdominal roll shouldn't have her own.
Like I mentioned in my previous post in this thread, this is a suit made possible by SF's constant meddling in business affairs in the name of multi-cultural-sexual-racial policing. Jazzercise has a right to their own look unless they are being unreasonable in their standards, and based on what I have read so far, I don't believe they are. Besides, Portnick already has her own deal going, but I guess she decided that if she couldn't fit into Jazzercise's suit, she would file one of her own, and get some free and frivolous publicity.
No need -- I saw a thing on *E* or Discovery, don't recall which, there's already a Babe Sumo League in America. Only two chicks, so far. (The demonstration video was gross, to say the least).
This woman wanting to teach jazzercise makes about as much sense as G. Gordon Liddy becoming the spokesman for The Hair Club For Men.
Pardek's Rule Of Life #12 -
For a woman to catch Pardek's eye, said woman's butt must be greater than or equal to the size of Pardek's butt.Call me old fashioned, but I've never gotten used to the "12 year old boy" look that's constantly pushed by fashion mags. Who wants to grab a woman's ass that's indistinguishable from one that belongs to some Junior High dude?
If you want more like her, move to Ohio. We've got plenty of them here.
As a conspiracy theorist at heart, here's my take - the vast majority of males who make decisions in the fashion/modeling industry are gay, and they have a skewed view on how a healthy woman should look.
There's a definite disconnect between the body shapes of the models who walk down the runway in Paris and those that entertain the dreams of Joe Six-Pack.
Askel, I flagged you because, IIRC, you're one of those who subscribe to my conspiracy theory.
This is how the artists of old pictured the "perfect" female:
That's no boy keister....
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