Saying her daughter has a great personality is ignoring the obvious, massive emotional dysfunction. Whatever is going on in that family may certainly include love and conscious support, but also involves massive denial--if her daughter weren't fat, she wouldn't have been able to convincingly play a horrendously abused girl, said size one of the symptoms of that abuse. We can love people, accept their spirits...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Gabourey Sidibe 'Would Like To Lose Some Weight,' Says Mom
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Is calling her daughter's personality dysfunctional in public really supposed to help?
I thought you might be interested in this:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2008/03/02/a_smoking_snitch/?page=2
"...As a rule, subway riders shouldn't sit where there isn't enough space, unless they have a compelling reason to do so. If someone is impinging on your space – because of obesity, a puffy coat, a pregnant belly, a laden backpack, or an infant in a Snugli – you can say, 'Excuse me. You're in my space,' or you can get up and move. Neither option is particularly awkward; they just reflect the realities of crowded public transport.
"If my tone seems brusque, I apologize. But I know the kinds of letters that will be waiting for me on Monday morning because I dared not hate fat people in this response. Do you know that every time I suggest courtesy to the overweight, I get not just letters disagreeing with me, but actual hate mail? The general theme of which is, invariably: 'But if we treat overweight people with dignity, they will have no motivation to lose weight, and will continue to be _fat at me_!' Miss Conduct is not at home to that line of reasoning.
"Here's the thing about fat people, folks: They exist. And they have a right to do so. And a whole lot of them wrote sad, funny, insightful things to me when I posted this question on my blog, and you can read some of their responses yourself at boston.com/missconduct. Go read, go learn..."
BTW, "read[ing] some of their responses yourself" takes some more clicks. I clicked them for you and probably burned a calorie or two in the process:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/missconduct/2008/03/size_on_the_sub_1.html
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/missconduct/2008/03/size_on_the_sub_2.html
" or an infant in a Snugli"
Naw, that's two people! Baby gets it's own seat space.
"or an infant in a Snugli"
"Naw, that's two people! Baby gets it's own seat space."
Good point! :)
People carrying babies in Snuglis ought to use that ("you're taking up too much space!!!" "[baby's name] and I are two people, of course we can use two seats"). ;)
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