Heavy Woman Doing It For Attention
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I blame Paris Hilton.
On the topic though, this kind of thing should be discouraged strongly. As strongly as people who try to lose weight in unhealthy and dangerous ways or stay at unhealthily thin levels.
Another question comes to mind: What happened to responsible reporting? This isn't news, it's not something that should be promoted but that's exactly what the news is doing. And they do it for things far worse than some woman with a mental condition.
Hasn't exsisted since cable news entered the field.
It actually happened before there was even television but then at that time journalism also had far more hacks in it. I guess I've become more aware of just how pathetic the news media and media in general have gotten. Integrity used to mean something to serious journalists and reporters, now it's just find the most outrageous story and promote it for ratings.
Your last sentence, specificly the portion after the comma, nails it. I, as in my above post, blame the cable news networks they make the broadcast networks more competitive for ratings and even the cable news networks fight with one another for the all important viewer and dollar.
So, hey, if a half-naked humanoid dwarf planet brings in the viewers then go for it!
Me? I'm still throwing up.
I agree, and unfortunately I don't think it will ever end as long as people are interested in this stuff. It's called sensationalism, and unfortunately it's what a lot of networks report these days instead of real news. I put it in the same category as reality shows. Most of them are trashy, but they keep making them because it's cheap and there's a market for them.
Angela 0077
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i have to agree with you here.
She would be having medical problems to a extent plus if she did get sick they usaully have to use cranes to move them
There was a guy who got sick and had to be mved this way and it caused him such embarrassement.
I like Shallow Hal, but I think its message is muddied in a couple of ways.
First of all, the movie gives us the "premise" that all 'ugly' people are really beautiful on the inside and all "beautiful" people are really ugly on the inside. Rosemary, his boss' wife, the two guys in the Peace Corps Rosemary knew, the children in the hospital, the girls in the bar, the girl in the cab, the hostest at the restaurant all appeared to Hal as being "beautiful" -as he was seeing a physical representation of their personality. But the other nurse at the hopsital was seen as being ugly. Because, you see, she was beautiful on the outside so, obviously, she was ugly on the inside! Granted, IIRC, we only see one instance of the beautiful=ugly, but considering all of the "ugly" people Hal saw had "beautiful" personalities...
Secondly, and this is the big one, Hal didn't come to realization that his views were wrong until after his friend broke the spell. He only approached Mary because she was hot, infact he went up to her and insulted the large undies she was buying. If he had seen the "real" Mary he would've never gone up to her (for the sake of argument we'll say he's not a complete ass and he wouldn't of made the undie comment to her) if he saw the real her. He only "defended her" when they left the diner because he thought he was being insulted. He only made her feel good about wearing revealing clothing because he wanted to see her in hot clothes becuase he saw her as being hot. Nothing he does from the moment he gets the spell to the moment it's broken is done because he's seeing the "real person" it's all being done becuase he's a misogynistic asshole who's just chasing tail. He didn't share the cab with the girl because she had a beautiful personality, he did it because he thought she was hot!
He wasn't dating Rosemary, at first, because he loved her personality he did it because he thought she was hot! Now, granted, when the spell is broken Hal realizes the whole "real love" thing and makes the right decision -and doesn't dump her for being fat- but all of his motives up to that point were only done because he was seeing the "ugly" women as being hot. Because, again, all ugly people have beautiful personalites on the inside.
And, frankly, Rosemary was morbidly obese. It's one thing if a woman is on the healthy side, a bit heavy or whatever I'm hardly one to only drool after skinny super models. I like my women with some meat and stuff to them. Hell, to this day I defend Monica Lewinsky as not being totally "fat" and perfectly "do able" during that whole Lewinsky-gate thing. She was plumbishly cute.
But there's a difference between being a woman with a few extra pounds and being a woman who orders an entire meal for several people for herself (as Rosemary does in the movie). There's not having metabolism and there's just eating too damn much.
Some people are overly obsesed with being with someone to meet a "perfect" type, ignoring perfectly average , normal, or hardly obese people for the sake of the magazine cover.
But this woman isn't one of those. This woman is way, way past that line well into being just obscene. She's putting her health at risk, her life at risk, and her children's lives at risk all in the name of fame. She's eating 10,000 callories a day and doing minimal activity. And she claims she's healthy. She's not some beautiful-on-the-inside fat person being picked on needlessly because she has a few extra pounds, she's a woman who weighs 600lbs and aims to way almost double that. She's a woman who can't simply stand up without using all of the efforts of her bones and muscles. I don't care who you are, that's not healthy.
And, yeah, the risks associated with being heavy sway both ways, some people are "healthier" being heavy than they are thin, but this woman is pushing her body to the limit, she's not someone who's dieting and eating right and "just can't lose weight" she's someone who's testing every organ in her body to see how much they can take. A heart can only pump so much of her pancake-batter thick blood through her veins so much it's a muscle like any other, it works harder than any other muscle in your body, and sooner or later her's is going to get strained.
This woman is doing herself a great dis-service and a great dis-service to all of the women out there who do have real eating-disorders and those out there who do try and eat right to lose weight and just can't. Vast differences between this woman and, say, your average Jenny Craig club member.
And Shallow Hal's message is very, very shallow. Hal wouldn't of given Rosemary a second look or thought if he saw the "real" her. He only went after her because she's hot, only got to know her because she's hot and it took him practicaly forever to realize how much he "really" loved her once the spell was broken. Good, movie. Funny, but the message is shallow.
IMO, this is just plain sad. Pathetic and sad.
There are people out there with crap metabolisms - I myself have to run about 20 miles a week, spend some time on the elliptical, lift a few weights and eat about 1,400 calories a day, just to keep my weight in the ballpark of 'normal' and my fitness levels reasonable.
And someone like this makes people who struggle look bad, because the assumption is that everyone who has a running battle with their weight simply has 'no control' like this woman.
I don't really know what her deal is - if she finally just gave up and decided to eat herself to death or what. But when I read that article, all I can feel is sadness and pity. Because she is sure to die very young...and she will have no one to blame but herself.
There are people out there with crap metabolisms - I myself have to run about 20 miles a week, spend some time on the elliptical, lift a few weights and eat about 1,400 calories a day, just to keep my weight in the ballpark of 'normal' and my fitness levels reasonable.
And someone like this makes people who struggle look bad, because the assumption is that everyone who has a running battle with their weight simply has 'no control' like this woman.
I don't really know what her deal is - if she finally just gave up and decided to eat herself to death or what. But when I read that article, all I can feel is sadness and pity. Because she is sure to die very young...and she will have no one to blame but herself.
On the plus side (pun not intended, but I acknowledge it's there) with a spare tire that big and droopy, she could probably go outside without pants and not get arrested.
If you don't get why, it's because it's like a flesh moo-moo.
Oh, and once you've read that, you can't unread it. Mua-ha-ha!
If you don't get why, it's because it's like a flesh moo-moo.
Oh, and once you've read that, you can't unread it. Mua-ha-ha!
Rii
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Or maybe it has nothing to do with you whatsoever.
Well, nitpickings aside, I think it had a great message, and like I said before, it actually had guts to say it in a world where the media pushes woman to have unrealistic and unreasonable porportions. Sure, it might not be perfect, and I know that, just like you do, but at least it goes in the right direction. I'm overweight, and so I appreciate what the movie had to say. He did realize he was being shallow in the end afterall. That's what counts.
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