Post: #1

This is delicious fellow fat shamer's & truth tellers! The left is truly eating it's own down here right now in the wake of...


...this fucking thing...

...causing headlines after whinging about it's ordeal to appear at The Sydney Writer's Festival.

'Cruel and humiliating': Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay calls out treatment by Mamamia

Quote:Acclaimed feminist author Roxane Gay has called out her "cruel and humiliating" treatment by Mia Freedman and Mamamia, after a podcast recorded when she was in Sydney last month was released on Sunday.

The podcast, in which Gay discusses her new memoir Hunger - about her challenges with size and a culture that demeans and refuses to accommodate fat people - was introduced by Freedman who aired sensitive claims about how the author was accommodated.

It's your fault she doesn't feel included, bigot. The hunger is your fault too

Quote:"A lot of planning has to go into a visit from best-selling author, [US] college professor and writer, Roxane Gay," the podcast intro reads.

"Will she fit into the office lift? How many steps will she have to take to get to the interview? Is there a comfortable chair that will accommodate her six-foot-three, 'super-morbidly-obese' frame?"

In an accompanying article entitled "Why, for the first time, I have no photo from my interview with Roxane Gay" and which has since been removed from the Mamamia website, Freedman revealed "there were more than a dozen exchanges back and forth between my producer and her people and the details of them both broke my heart and opened my eyes."

Quote:Freedman then detailed this information, including requests for information about the lifts, stairs and chairs that the author would be seated in.

"I would never normally breach the confidence of what goes on behind the scenes while organising an interview but in this case, it's a fundamental part of her story and what her book is about," Freedman wrote.

"You see, Roxane Gay is ... I'm searching for the right word to use here. I don't want to say fat so I'm going to use the official medical term: super morbidly obese."

It was at this point the fat shame kicked in...

Quote:In a series of tweets, Gay slammed the use of this information and language to introduce the podcast. "I am appalled by Mamamia," she wrote. "It was a shit show. I can walk a f---ing mile."

Gay also maintained that she never asked about lifts and only requested a sturdy chair.

"It is cruel and humiliating," she added in response to a comment from Ijeoma Oluo, editor of The Establishment, who wrote: "This is not how you talk about another human being, especially your own guest. Nobody should have to tell @mamamia that this isn't OK."

After being contacted by Fairfax Media for comment, Gay said "I've said what I need to say. This situation is disgusting and shameful and frankly it speaks for itself."

She later addressed the controversy during a filmed interview with The Wall Street Journal's Book Club on Tuesday morning in the US, saying she felt "horrible" about trending on Twitter over the issue.

Gay said her interview with Freedman ended with the Mamamia founder telling her about how they had tried to accommodate her, and a request for a photo, which was denied: "I didn't want to take a picture with her, because I don't enjoy having my picture taken, and she took it really personally."

Quote:She went on to describe her total bafflement at Freedman's speculation about whether she could fit in an elevator or how many steps she would have to walk:

"As if I don't live in the world, as if I haven't been on a book tour for three years ... it was just bizarre. So she's being rightly excoriated for it."

Twitter went into meltdown over the comments by Freedman, who was appointed chair of the National Body Image Advisory Group in 2009.

Post: #2

That walking globe has bigger legs than my 34" waist.

Post: #3

Dupe sadly

Edit: Only kind of dupe

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Post: #4

(06-20-2017 08:14 AM)Sonoma Wrote:  Dupe sadly

Edit: Only kind of dupe

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She's so huge she needs more than one thread.

Whether she can fit in the lift (or potentially crash it) is a valid safety concern.