I've been overweight my whole life (morbid at one point in high school) and I never got mooed at and I don't ever recall getting on a bus and people giving me dirty looks for no reason. And I sat with people at the lunch table without them getting up in disgust... this movie was made by a bunch of skinny people who have no clue. And shame on Kaley Cuoco for accepting this job... she now looks like a complete ass.
shareOh, and I never had a "hidden stash" of anything. What a cliché...
shareme either.
I have never been called fat or anything.
I dunno .. maybe its cause there are fatter people than me?
but this movie is cheesy.
Rest in Peace, Walt Disney & Severus Snape
I reside in Wonderland.
Yeah, but your just two of many, many fat people. I was fat as a kid. Not chubby, but obese. Fat. My first day of jr high at a new school people walked behind me and went "BOOM BOOM BOOM" and someone said'Hey, weren't the halls alot LIGHTER last year? yeah and didn't they smell alot nicer as well? huh, wonder WHY" I was moo'd at, had guys punch each other in the hall when they saw me coming and say"look Larry, here comes your woman" and they'd all get a chuckle out of embarassing the guy AND me. I've had pebbles thrown at me, some guys tried to pick me up in my desk in 7th grade WHILE I was in it, etc. This stuff really does happen. There are even adults that never grow out of being *beep* Before I lost a ton of weight i'd be out walking..you know TRYING to lose weight? and people at least in their 30s would go by and honk or or yell stupid things out their windows. I never had to have a stash of anything because I was like the boy in the movie, I was allowed to eat whatever I wanted.
shareAt my high school, the fat people didn't get made fun of. My cousin is obese and 2 years younger than me, she didn't get made fun of but you're right, she wasn't popular.
On the flip side, I was openly ridiculed for being skinny. It didn't matter what I ate, my ribs were visible and my hip bones were visible.
I will always remember being at the station one day and one of my cousin's (overweight) friends came up to us, she had never met me, and she said "Oh my God you're SO skinny! Are you anorexic?" and my cousin turned around and said "That's really horrible. Would you call me fat?" "No.... But it's not the same" my cousin responded "Yes, yes it is".
Any bullying is not OK. This movie brings to light one thing people are being bullied for, and that it's not OK.
Anything that brings to light any form of bullying for people to see is good in my book.
T.
www.tamsinhowse.com/blog
lol I occasionally have a hidden stash, and I'm not that fat!
I know a lot of overweight people who have a hidden stash =D
My wife and I have both been morbidly obese. We also don't recall daily tauntings and ridicule, although it occurred from time to time. Fat kids were mostly ignored in high school, same as anyone else who wasn't popular.
And there are plenty of things to cover about being fat that don't involve being able to wear nice clothes or enduring disgust and ridicule. There are things you can't do at all, or are simply too dangerous to do. I remember restaurants I couldn't go to, because I couldn't fit in their tiny booths or be supported by their flimsy outdoor chairs. I couldn't play some sports, not because I was clumsy, but because running became way too painful. You avoided convertibles and sports cars, because they were either too small, or positioned your body at such a low angle as to make any seating fairly miserable. Tying your shoes was a struggle. So was the occasional visit to a public bathroom.
You couldn't go mountain biking with your friends. Skating was painful on your back. Skiing, too. You wake up with headaches, your feet hurt all the time. So do your joints. You never have a good night's sleep because of the pressure on your lungs and the sleep apnea. You wake up tired, because you're insulin resistant and your cells aren't getting nourished. Your back and neck hurt. You sweat in areas most people don't, and you get rashes - a lot. You don't heal that fast.
You've probably lost more weight on diets than most people weigh, but regained it just eating what your friends eat - and the good friends still mother you with advice you don't need.
They did at least touch briefly on one thing, but not very much. At the end of the day, fat people can't take the fat suit off. At some point, they are resigned to the fact that it may NEVER change, or it will kill them before it does. And THAT is the misery of being fat - not the ridicule and scorn. It's the knowledge that it may well be a life sentence.
Great post, malkink. It's amazing how the real point of this movie has escaped so many people.
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