Some people posted lovely supportive comments under the article online.
Some other people posted some extremely mean, judgemental, callous and arseholey comments under there, judging her on her mothering skills, her appearance, and mostly her weight. I'm not going to link to the article here. Don't feed the beast.
Chrissie Swan, you didn't deserve any of that judgement. Nobody does.
The wonderful Mrs Woog, and equally fabulicious BigWordsBlog blogged about this appalling turn crap. Then got their own fair share of nasty weight-ist comments as well.
Of course, all these keyboard heroes posted using anonymous handles. And they all said that weight was a health issue, costing us blah blah per year as a community, responsibility to our children to be healthy, blah blah wanky smug blah.
Fuck that shit.
To all the cowardly weight-ist anonymouses...
Before you get too smug about science, science tells us that people who are overweight have higher life expectancy than the under or "healthy" weight people out there.
Fitness impacts life expectancy far more than fatness.
So let's not hide our prejudice behind the great god of science, OK?
Let's get real here.
Being "fat" is an aesthetics issue, hiding like a coward inside a simpering faux-caring costume of health.
Being over size 12/14 is not currently within that narrow, ever-changing FASHION of how we're supposed to look to be attractive - to be ACCEPTABLE.
A couple of hundred years ago, plumpness was the epitome of sexy for women. But, fashion is a fickle mistress and a complete bitch to boot.
People are too scared to admit that they've been conditioned to not like looking at people over a particular size. It disgusts them. But saying "you disgust me" isn't very nice, is it?
So they hide their mean-ness, their shallow conditioned prejudices in talking about what's "good for us".
In the same way we should stop telling women what to wear to be pretty/age appropriate/safe we need to stop telling people what size they should be.
Be who you are.
Diet if you like, or not.
Exercise if you like, nor not.
It's your responsibility, not mine, what you choose to be.
Weight - like age, gender, race and sexuality should never be used to put people down, as a way to make you feel superior when you look at another person.
Frankly, I'd rather look at a nice fat person, than a healthy-weighted judgemental arsehole. And that includes looking in the mirror.
Who do you see when you look in yours?
In the previous edit of this post I had a picture of Nigella Lawson and a picture of Gillian McKeith. Nigella is, as most of us know, a food writer/chef. Gillian makes her living telling other people what they should eat. I juxtaposed the two photos, stating which person I would rather be. In light of comments made - rightly - about the unintentional inferences this made about appearance, I've removed that piece of this post.
Keyboards breed cowards. But that's a subject for another post.
So come on, all you keyboard cowboys, disagree with this post? Tell me.
I'm an angry, fat, 44 year old woman with a severe cold and the first day of the first period I've had in 10 months.
Bring. That. Shit. On. I dare you.
