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(Anonymous)
2010-10-27 05:37 am UTC (link)

http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/dating-blog/overweight-couples-on-television

If the link doesn't give you a hint to what it's about, the title: Should "Fatties" Get a Room? (Even on TV?)

Wank (reasonably) explodes in comments and the author makes an apology.

Some prize quotes:

"So anyway, yes, I think I'd be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other ... because I'd be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything. To be brutally honest, even in real life, I find it aesthetically displeasing to watch a very, very fat person simply walk across a room — just like I'd find it distressing if I saw a very drunk person stumbling across a bar or a heroine addict slumping in a chair."

"I have a few friends who could be called plump. I'm not some size-ist jerk."

"I would like to reiterate that I think it's great to have people of all shapes and healthy sizes represented in magazines (as, it bears mentioning here, they are in Marie Claire) and on TV shows--and that in my post, I was talking about a TV show that features people who are not simply a little overweight, but appear to be morbidly obese"

	(Anonymous) 2010-10-27 01:21 pm UTC (link)
	It gets a little crazy over here when Jennifer Armintrout weighs in on the article on her blog: http://jenniferarmintrout.blogspot.com/2010/10/maura-kelly-i-will-kick-your-boney-ass.html And the next day calls her commenters on some creepy stalker shit: http://jenniferarmintrout.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-fuck-guys.html (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Anonymous)
2010-10-27 09:11 pm UTC (link)

Fasionista post: http://www.fatshionista.com/cms/index.php?option=com_mojo&Itemid=69&p=579

And the Marie Claire editors respond: http://fashionista.com/2010/10/exclusive-marie-claire-eic-joanna-coles-responds-to-controversial-fatist-blog-post/

“Maura Kelly is a very provocative blogger,” Coles told us. “She was an anorexic herself and this is a subject she feels very strongly about.”

Coles said the mag has received over 28,000 email responses to the piece, and that Kelly was “excited and moved by their responses.”

http://fashionista.com/2010/10/fat-hating-marie-claire-blogger-struggled-with-eating-disorder/

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	(Anonymous) 2010-10-28 12:04 am UTC (link)
	And a lovely post from Cleolinda: http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/921195.html?style=mine#cutid1 (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2010-10-28 03:39 pm UTC (link)
	Picked up by msnbc: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39868583/ns/today-today_health/ (Reply to this)(Parent)

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