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Female news anchor on viewer's comments about her weight

crys_aintgivingup
crys_aintgivingup Posts: 115 Member
edited February 18 in Chit-Chat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUOpqd0rQSo

I'd be very interested to know what fellow MFPers think of her speech. Of course, the guy who sent the email was ridiculous - judging that she had 'chose to be obese' without even knowing her. On the other hand, though, I feel slightly strange about the fact that she seems to put obesity/overweight issues with things like sexual orientation/skin colour, which seems to make obesity/overweight issues completely fine and the people who try to point out that it's unhealthy are actually discriminating. I'm not saying that people deserved to be called 'fat' in a rude or bullying manner, of course. but i feel that we should be able to acknowledge that obesity/being overweight IS a problem of health, and not just something that simply makes us different (like sexual orientation or the colour of our skin).

what do you guys think?

disclaimer: i'm overweight myself, so i'm really not trying to shame overweight people.
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