CBS poll asks if woman is too fat to cheer

hungryhobbit1

This is why so many women are so screwed up about weight and moral judgments that they're terrified to eat more than 1200 calories a day.

http://www.blogher.com/too-fat-be-cheerleader-cbs-houston-polls-readers-weight-okc-thunder-girl

And a cached version of the original story, which has now been taken down:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kR7SlBTH7XkJ:houston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/22/is-this-girl-too-chunky-to-be-an-okc-thunder-cheerleader/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

If someone who can pull off those shorts is subject to ridicule by a major media organization, why is anyone shocked that women with 60-100 pounds to lose don't want to go for a run outside?

Anyway, that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to things this article makes me sad about, not to mention the sad state of journalism in a pay per click era.

olDave

Someone once said "Life is hard, then we die."

TwinkieDong

I am not much of a sports fan though I live in Oklahoma. It seems to me that our team is doing so well, Texas has nothing to talk about besides that. It is a rivalry coupled with ugliness.

Is she too fat in my opinion? No, but does she fit into the traditional mold in the one picture posted in the article? No. There are more serious things to talk about that how fat a cheerleader is.

SerenaFisher

Eh, like the above poster said she doesn't fit with the others. I do not think she's fat, but she is definitely larger than the other girls and does stand out.

I think people need to stop comparing themselves to what others appear as anyway, personally if you do not think you are fat and you embrace your body who cares what CBS, or any large commercial television corporation, or ANY person on this planet thinks? It starts with you.

_DaniD_

Reading the article and looking at the poll results, I don't see the problem.