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In reply to the discussion: Bully calls news anchor fat, news anchor destroys him on live tv [View all]PossumSqueezins
(184 posts)45. She's a GREAT role model
I would hazard to guess that a great many of her viewers are in the same boat especially if she's anywhere near the midwest. She's smart, attractive, well-dressed and comes across as genuinely kind and concerned about others. She's proof to an overweight kid that not all women on television are super model thin.
I would be more concerned about the health ramifications of young girls in the community who idolize a thin reporter with a body that is unattainable for them and choose anorexia or bulemia.
People can argue about whether it is unhealthy to be fat but I have a friend who likes to point out that she knows plenty of thin people on blood pressure medications.
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Powerful message. I know as a fat person myself and had somewhat of an experience that
southernyankeebelle
Oct 2012
#18
Bullying is every where. At your job, at school at social organizations and even here in DU. nm
rhett o rick
Oct 2012
#17
Truth: She IS fat. Far BIGGER truth: He needed that can of Whoop ASS (TM).
kestrel91316
Oct 2012
#20
As long as diabetics, cancer survivors, hair transplant recipients, arthritis sufferers, eczema
nolabear
Oct 2012
#23
When anorexic models and actresses are no longer lionized, and when fat men aren't governors,
WinkyDink
Oct 2012
#26
If you don't mind not talking about it, you can hide easier than gender, size or color.
freshwest
Oct 2012
#60
The world is, and always has been, a dangerous place. Civilization is only skin deep.
freshwest
Oct 2012
#69
I disagree with you. I see bullying in lots of places. Some is blatant and some is subtle.
rhett o rick
Oct 2012
#65