Londeners react to fat-shaming with cards that say "you look great!"

[Thick Face Black Heart]

Leongsam - take note. The liberals have spoken.

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Fat-Shamers Hand Out Nasty Cards on Subway, So Plus-Size Company Has Awesome Response


By Rachel Lubitz December 01, 2015


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Over the weekend, the rudest man alive entered the London tube and handed a young woman, Kara Florish, a card.

Written across the top of the card was the name of his group, "Overweight Haters Ltd." Printed below that was a lengthy explanation of the organization, beginning with the charming sentiment, "Our organization hates and resents fat people. We object to the enormous amount of food resources you consume while half the world starves."

Florish immediately took to Twitter to call out the random act of rudeness and the card itself. The Internet soon took notice, with even more witnesses saying they'd seen other women handed the same card, prompting The Cut to ask, on behalf of all of us, "Can we abandon Earth now?"

But rather than accept that there are truly repulsive people in this world, one woman and a plus-size clothing company banded together to flip the organization's cowardly card tactic on its head.

Bethany Rutter, a plus-size journalist who runs the blog Arched Eyebrow, decided to take the concept behind the fat-shaming card and turn it into an empowering message. On Monday, she tweeted out a plan: to print out cards saying "You look great today!" and distribute them on the tube.

"I love giving and receiving compliments, and a random compliment from a well-intentioned stranger (not a creepy dude, obviously) has been known to make my day," Rutter told Mic. "I heard about this horrendous fat-phobic campaign of hate on the London underground and thought it was the perfect opportunity to get started on this!"

As Rutter's tweet started to get more attention, more stories from women who have been publicly shamed for their weight started rolling in.

 

[Leongsam]

Leongsam - take note. The liberals have spoken.

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Fat-Shamers Hand Out Nasty Cards on Subway, So Plus-Size Company Has Awesome Response

Handing a "You look great" card to a fat lump of turd is even more insulting. Every fatty on earth knows they look like shit. The last thing on earth they need is hypocrisy.

 

[mojito]

Handing a "You look great" card to a fat lump of turd is even more insulting. Every fatty on earth knows they look like shit. The last thing on earth they need is hypocrisy.

The truth hurts. Sometimes lies are ok if they make you feel good and stop worrying. That is why I vote for the PAP. Some skeletons are best left in the closet.

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

Obesity is just the way some people are.

Not every fatty got there through laziness or gluttony. Some people are just born to become fat.

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

As a fat positive activist my goal, first and foremost, is to advocate body love for all shapes and sizes. Instead, doing this as a fat woman, I am often subjected to accusations of ‘glorifying obesity’.
Thank the Lord, then, for the widely reported study this weekwhich found that obesity awareness may actually be causing people to overeat. The message is clear: put a laser focus on people’s bodies, talk about them constantly and frame their weight as a problem, and they will respond with stress activity. The widespread ‘awareness’ we’re all now supposed to have of our waistlines may actually be contributing to the so-called obesity crisis.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...ceptance-is-good-for-our-health-10440615.html

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Handing a "You look great" card to a fat lump of turd is even more insulting. Every fatty on earth knows they look like shit. The last thing on earth they need is hypocrisy.

That's the same as telling people they 'WON' silver or bronze. Truth is....they lost the gold.

 

[frenchbriefs]

fuck u guys and fat phobic haters,im going on a protest by walking around the streets naked in a jock strap.

u can all lick my man tits and suck my balls.

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

fuck u guys and fat phobic haters,im going on a protest by walking around the streets naked in a jock strap.

u can all lick my man tits and suck my balls.

I am with you on this.

 

[Leongsam]

Obesity is just the way some people are.

Not every fatty got there through laziness or gluttony. Some people are just born to become fat.

What utter rubbish. People get fat because they consume more calories than they burn. They do that because they lack will power. In other words they have inferior genes.

 

[yellowarse]

Not every fatty got there through laziness or gluttony. Some people are just born to become fat.

True. While many got fat through over-gorging and inactivity, there's a proportion of people who have fat genes, as a recent study has shown. Their bodies have difficulty burning calories and tend be very efficient in storing ingested calories as fat. Most of these will need bariatric surgery and an extremely low-cal diet of <1,000 Cals/day (as opposed to the average 1,500 Cals/d for women and 2,000 Cals/d for men).

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Fat genes are to blame for a fifth of obesity

The research is expected to fuel moves to categorise obesity as a disability and could change thinking in the NHS about how the condition is treated

About a quarter of adults and one in ten children in Britain are obese Photo: PA

By Telegraph reporter

9:33AM GMT 12 Feb 2015

Fat genes are to blame for more than a fifth of obesity meaning exercise and dieting are of little use to millions, a new study has found.

The landmark research, published in the journal Nature, is the most precise estimate yet for the percentage of obesity caused by DNA rather than lifestyle and is expected to fuel moves to categorise obesity as a disability.

It could change thinking in the NHS about how the condition is treated, experts suggest.

Current figures suggest about a quarter of adults and one in ten children in Britain are obese and up to £8 billion a year is spent treating obesity and related illnesses.

Researchers from the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits consortium analysed DNA from more than 300,000 people worldwide to complete the study.


Elizabeth Speliotes, of the University of Michigan, who led the research, told The Times the research clearly showed there was no single gene that drove obesity.

"The large number of genes make it less likely that one solution to beat obesity will work for all and opens the door to possible ways we could use genetic clues to help defeat obesity," she said.

Alistair Hall, professor of medicine at the University of Leeds, who contributed data to the study, added that exercising and eating healthily were still the best protection against becoming fat, but the discovery "could help many people born with a disposition to put on too much weight".

A companion paper, also published in Nature, claimed that women are much more prone than men to genetic quirks that cause fat to accumulate around the waistline rather than the hips, exposing them to a greater risk of type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular trouble.

Out of the 20 areas of DNA linked to fat distribution that affect one sex more than the other, 19 have a stronger effect on women.

The authors suggested that the disparity could be explained by sex hormones.

 

[yellowarse]

What utter rubbish. People get fat because they consume more calories than they burn.

We had that argument before. Yes, fat people consume more calories than they burn. But some fat people are genetically predisposed to burning very few calories so they'd have to go on an insanely deficient low-cal diet to lose weight, the kind of diet that normal people like you and me can't stick to, unless we had 3/4 of our stomach removed.

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

What utter rubbish. People get fat because they consume more calories than they burn. They do that because they lack will power. In other words they have inferior genes.

You are contradicting yourself if you admit that some fat people have poor genes. Genetics is beyond your control - regardless of willpower.

 

[Leongsam]

You are contradicting yourself if you admit that some fat people have poor genes. Genetics is beyond your control - regardless of willpower.

No I'm not because will power can be acquired. It's a mindset.

 

[Leongsam]

We had that argument before. Yes, fat people consume more calories than they burn. But some fat people are genetically predisposed to burning very few calories so they'd have to go on an insanely deficient low-cal diet to lose weight, the kind of diet that normal people like you and me can't stick to, unless we had 3/4 of our stomach removed.

Surely we're not going through this same crap again. I already destroyed your claim in the previous thread on this subject.

 

[Leongsam]

True. While many got fat through over-gorging and inactivity, there's a proportion of people who have fat genes, as a recent study has shown. Their bodies have difficulty burning calories and tend be very efficient in storing ingested calories as fat. Most of these will need bariatric surgery and an extremely low-cal diet of <1,000 Cals/day (as opposed to the average 1,500 Cals/d for women and 2,000 Cals/d for men).

If this were really the case why were there so few fat people in photos taken in the 50s and 60s.

Google for images of blacks taken during the civil rights movement of the 60s. You'll hardly see a single overweight negro.

Compare it with images of blacks today where nobody takes personal responsibility for anything anymore.

 

[yellowarse]

Surely we're not going through this same crap again. I already destroyed your claim in the previous thread on this subject.

Destroyed? LOL.

It's all mathematics, dickhead. If you body burned only 500 Cals/day, you'd have to go on a 400 Cals/day diet to be on a 100 Cals/d deficit to lose about 1 kg a month.

Try going on a 400 Cals/d diet. That's one mee soto a day. You'll go crazy, I assure you. That, or you'll feel faint throughout the day from hypoglycemia. Still think you can get your bike for a 100 km spin?

 

[Leongsam]

Fast forward to 2015

 

[Leongsam]

Destroyed? LOL.

It's all mathematics, dickhead. If you body burned only 500 Cals/day, you'd have to go on a 400 Cals/day diet to be on a 100 Cals/d deficit to lose about 1 kg a month.

Try going on a 400 Cals/d diet. That's one mee soto a day. You'll go crazy, I assure you. That, or you'll feel faint throughout the day from hypoglycemia. Still think you can get your bike for a 100 km spin?

Rubbish I ride regularly with guys who have lost 30 kg or more within a year of getting on a bike. One guy has lost a whopping 80kg.

It's all about discipline and will power. When you're extremely overweight you start off gradually and build up as the weight comes off.

 

[yellowarse]

If this were really the case why were there so few fat people in photos taken in the 50s and 60s.

These are anecdotal photos. I could show you another picture in the '50s of a fat family (fat genes are inherited). Certainly, those days there were far fewer fat people – healthier food, less sedentary lifestyle. No argument about that.

No one said that all fat people are genetically programmed to be fat. A significant proportion, maybe 10-20%, are. These people need help, not derision.

Short of starvation, go to any wealthy nation in the '50s & '60s (US, Europe) and you'll still see obese people, but in much smaller numbers. Check out why they are obese and you'll find the the vast majority don't eat more than you or me, but they got fat nonetheless. For them, it's genetics.

 

[Thick Face Black Heart]

These are anecdotal photos. I could show you another picture in the '50s of a fat family (fat genes are inherited). Certainly, those days there were far fewer fat people – healthier food, less sedentary lifestyle. No argument about that.

No one said that all fat people are genetically programmed to be fat. A significant proportion, maybe 10-20%, are. These people need help, not derision.

Short of starvation, go to any wealthy nation in the '50s & '60s (US, Europe) and you'll still see obese people, but in much smaller numbers. Check out why they are obese and you'll find the the vast majority don't eat more than you or me, but they got fat nonetheless. For them, it's genetics.

Yes, no one is claiming that all the fat people or even a majority of them are caused by genetics. But certainly medical science has proven beyond reasonable doubt that genetics plays the key role in many cases.

Photographic evidence is not the way to conduct a proper debate. Nutrition and economic conditions were different so naturally thin people would dominate in the old photos. We are talking about science here. If you want to talk about photo evidence, look at medieval times where artists drew people being fat. I wonder what Leongsam to say about that sort of artwork.