Comments on: Please sir, may I have a smaller plate? http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2008/02/04/please-sir-may-i-have-a-smaller-plate/ News, but not the serious kind Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:58:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Shawn Hendricks http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2008/02/04/please-sir-may-i-have-a-smaller-plate/#comment-337774 Shawn Hendricks Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:05:50 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2008/02/04/please-sir-may-i-have-a-smaller-plate/#comment-337774 Having lived in countries other than the US, I can state beyond with confidence that America has an unhealthy attraction to complacency. We let ourselves go fat and then pretend that folks who are thin have an unhealthy body image. Wake the fuck up, people. Every meal should not be a feast. Eat what you need and stop before you become stuffed. We men are obsessed with beautiful women and if you are a fat slob of a woman, expect repulsion to be reflected in our reaction. Let me refrase. Expect repulsion to be reflected in my reaction to you, although I have learned to mask it fairly well. Get up from the table and burn up some calories cleaning the house, putting on makeup, doing your hair, taking the kids out the the playground, studying for school (keep awake by walking as you read) or walking down the street to visit friends. Having lived in countries other than the US, I can state beyond with confidence that America has an unhealthy attraction to complacency. We let ourselves go fat and then pretend that folks who are thin have an unhealthy body image. Wake the fuck up, people. Every meal should not be a feast. Eat what you need and stop before you become stuffed. We men are obsessed with beautiful women and if you are a fat slob of a woman, expect repulsion to be reflected in our reaction. Let me refrase. Expect repulsion to be reflected in my reaction to you, although I have learned to mask it fairly well. Get up from the table and burn up some calories cleaning the house, putting on makeup, doing your hair, taking the kids out the the playground, studying for school (keep awake by walking as you read) or walking down the street to visit friends.

]]> By: Charlene http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2008/02/04/please-sir-may-i-have-a-smaller-plate/#comment-337471 Charlene Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:11:11 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2008/02/04/please-sir-may-i-have-a-smaller-plate/#comment-337471 Dee T, keep her away from websites catering to young guys. There was a guy on one of those sites recently who was complaining that he was sick and tired of his "obese" girlfriend who at 5'8" wore size eight, and was about to trade her in for someone who wasn't, and I quote, "a hambeast". Three hundred men agreed with him, one saying that any woman above size 4 was letting men down. (For reference, Angelina Jolie claims to wear a size ten.) And then men wonder why women are so obsessed with weight and size! Dee T, keep her away from websites catering to young guys. There was a guy on one of those sites recently who was complaining that he was sick and tired of his “obese” girlfriend who at 5′8″ wore size eight, and was about to trade her in for someone who wasn’t, and I quote, “a hambeast”. Three hundred men agreed with him, one saying that any woman above size 4 was letting men down. (For reference, Angelina Jolie claims to wear a size ten.)

And then men wonder why women are so obsessed with weight and size!

]]> By: Dee T http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2008/02/04/please-sir-may-i-have-a-smaller-plate/#comment-337380 Dee T Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:14:27 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2008/02/04/please-sir-may-i-have-a-smaller-plate/#comment-337380 Bob, dude, I hate to do this, but I have to tell you - this kind of nonsense is actually not funny. This is why my beautiful 16 year old daughter, who wears a size 5, now complains she is too "fat." The nincompoops who dictate fashion better watch their backs, because if I ever get within 100 yards of Anna Wintour, or Galliano, or their ilk, I will go Redneck Commando and slap them as hard as possible across their pinched, emaciated faces... Bob, dude, I hate to do this, but I have to tell you - this kind of nonsense is actually not funny. This is why my beautiful 16 year old daughter, who wears a size 5, now complains she is too “fat.”

The nincompoops who dictate fashion better watch their backs, because if I ever get within 100 yards of Anna Wintour, or Galliano, or their ilk, I will go Redneck Commando and slap them as hard as possible across their pinched, emaciated faces…

]]> By: Lady Weasel http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2008/02/04/please-sir-may-i-have-a-smaller-plate/#comment-337379 Lady Weasel Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:12:13 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/2008/02/04/please-sir-may-i-have-a-smaller-plate/#comment-337379 I think she snuck it and got caught. I think she snuck it and got caught.

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