By Sarah Aarssen
“You should quit guzzling soda.”
“You just wolfed down a biggie burger and fries.”
“You must be shoveling in the twinkies to weigh that much.”
“Chow down wide load!”
Fat stereotypes really piss this girl off. Get the full story, right here.
I never read the advice “you should guzzle at least 8 glasses of water a day.”
I’ve never read that some Hollywood star was “wolfing down” anything unless they were talking about Kirstie Alley, Rosie O’Donnel or some other un-thin celebrity. Nobody’s photo is unknowingly snapped while “wolfing down a salad”!
I guess I find it so irritating because it draws a really disgusting picture of what overweight people are doing.
It paints a portrait (at least for me) of some unkempt slob sitting on the couch with his/her TV tray pulled up next to his/her belly which is protruding out from under his/her too small t-shirt with his/her bucket of KFC next to him/her and about 6 cans of Coke strewn about.
Read More--Portrait of an Unkempt Slob: Why Fat Stereotypes Suck
“You should quit guzzling soda.”
“You just wolfed down a biggie burger and fries.”
“You must be shoveling in the twinkies to weigh that much.”
“Chow down wide load!”
Fat stereotypes really piss this girl off. Get the full story, right here.
I never read the advice “you should guzzle at least 8 glasses of water a day.”
I’ve never read that some Hollywood star was “wolfing down” anything unless they were talking about Kirstie Alley, Rosie O’Donnel or some other un-thin celebrity. Nobody’s photo is unknowingly snapped while “wolfing down a salad”!
I guess I find it so irritating because it draws a really disgusting picture of what overweight people are doing.
It paints a portrait (at least for me) of some unkempt slob sitting on the couch with his/her TV tray pulled up next to his/her belly which is protruding out from under his/her too small t-shirt with his/her bucket of KFC next to him/her and about 6 cans of Coke strewn about.
Read More--Portrait of an Unkempt Slob: Why Fat Stereotypes Suck
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