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Body Shaming

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  • #62
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Would you hand a stranger who was smoking a card which informed them of what a horrible person they are and how much you hate them?

    No.


  • #63
    PM me nudes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭PM me nudes


    I saw a fat person once.

    I vomited at the sight and continued with my day.


  • #64
    desertcircus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭desertcircus


    Saipanne wrote: »
    Because it's unhealthy. Eating like that is unhealthy, like smoking. It should not be encouraged.

    Except smokers don't get these cards handed to them. Neither do people carrying motorbike helmets. Or people who drink to excess. Fat-shaming is pretty much unique, and it tends to be heavily focused on women. It's nothing to do with a concern for someone's health and everything to do with vicious misogyny.


  • #65
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,566 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    That card is bone. And the lettering is embossed Silian Grail


  • #66
    Deep Six
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭Deep Six


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    Assault for words classy.

    If you intentionally set out to verbally upset or cause distress to someone close me, I'll ****ing dance on your head. There's no whataboutery about it. Mind your own business and there's no issue, set out to act the arsehole and we have a problem.


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  • #67
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    desertcircus wrote: »
    Except smokers don't get these cards handed to them. Neither do people carrying motorbike helmets. Or people who drink to excess. Fat-shaming is pretty much unique, and it tends to be heavily focused on women. It's nothing to do with a concern for someone's health and everything to do with vicious misogyny.

    Really they only targeted women ?


  • #68
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    desertcircus wrote: »
    Except smokers don't get these cards handed to them. Neither do people carrying motorbike helmets. Or people who drink to excess. Fat-shaming is pretty much unique, and it tends to be heavily focused on women. It's nothing to do with a concern for someone's health and everything to do with vicious misogyny.

    I couldn't give a **** about the cards. Cheers.


  • #69
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Deep Six wrote: »
    If you intentionally set out to verbally upset or cause distress to someone close me, I'll ****ing dance on your head. There's no whataboutery about it. Mind your own business and there's no issue, set out to act the arsehole and we have a problem.

    I wonder what the Gards would say about that.


  • #70
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Deep Six wrote: »
    If you intentionally set out to verbally upset or cause distress to someone close me, I'll ****ing dance on your head. There's no whataboutery about it. Mind your own business and there's no issue, set out to act the arsehole and we have a problem.

    Olly Olly olly, oy oy oy!


  • #71
    Foxtrol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,349 ✭✭✭✭Foxtrol


    Candie wrote: »
    When I weighed less than six stone, no one ever handed me a card or told me my weight was unhealthy. I even got compliments on my jutting collarbone.

    I wonder why nobody apparently cared about me being seriously underweight. I wonder.

    Probably because there isn’t a vocal group saying how healthy it is for you to be that way.

    If shaming overweight people is not right I don’t see why it seems ok to shame smokers, alcoholics, or anorexics for their unhealthy life choices.

    This is obviously a step too far but idea that overweight people are beyond reproach is stupid and enabling.


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  • #72
    Deep Six
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭Deep Six


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    I wonder what the Gards would say about that.

    You either understand the sentiment or you don't. I'm not going to indulge in pedantism with you.


  • #73
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    desertcircus wrote: »
    Neither do people carrying motorbike helmets.

    I was once on a bike run where an evangelical type tried to expound the importance of faith in a higher being due to the peril of our passion. Had a bible and everything he did...

    EDIT

    Spot the zealot


  • #74
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,030 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    A tweet from a single person, who hadn't posted on twitter in 2 years and at the time must have had 3 real followers, is picked up on by a edgy journalist, who is primarily friends with feminists, who magically sees the same card being handed out 1 day later, and then gets reported on by a edgy Irish journalist who is probably a intern. And a fair number of new followers for Thomas too I guess.

    People don't hand out Fat cards to people on crowded public transport. People do make up stories for exposure though. They would both be perfect for the Daily Mail.


  • #75
    Sigma Path
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭Sigma Path


    Deep Six wrote: »
    If you intentionally set out to verbally upset or cause distress to someone close me, I'll ****ing dance on your head. There's no whataboutery about it. Mind your own business and there's no issue, set out to act the arsehole and we have a problem.

    No you're not and it shows extreme immaturity to say you're going to commit a serious assault over something fairly trivial.

    Surely someone close to you has been insulted before. How many times have you "danced on someone's head" so far?


  • #76
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I knew it was the feminists fault. :(

    Knew it!


  • #77
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Deep Six wrote: »
    You either understand the sentiment or you don't. I'm not going to indulge in pedantism with you.

    What Pedantry, I was wondering what the Garda would say after one dances on a persons head for making a comment.


  • #78
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    Assault for words classy.

    One of the easiest ways to get a solid punch to the face is to insult a man's other half.

    If you can't handle the outcome then don't be saying certain things. It's that simple.


  • #79
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Saipanne wrote: »
    French vegans face trial after death of baby fed only on breast milk

    http://gu.com/p/2z4bd

    Vegan Shaming?


  • #80
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    One of the easiest ways to get a solid punch to the face is to insult a man's other half.

    If you can't handle the outcome then don't be saying certain things. It's that simple.

    And it's an easy way to bate the less intelligent into an assault charge.


  • #81
    Deep Six
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭Deep Six


    Sigma Path wrote: »
    No you're not and it shows extreme immaturity to say you're going to commit a serious assault over something fairly trivial.

    Surely someone close to you has been insulted before. How many times have you "danced on someone's head" so far?

    Something trivial? It's a provocation if anything. Let's put this scenario to you - you're in town on a Saturday night and some asshole says to your woman "you're an ugly bitch". Do you stand by twirling your moustache and say good day sir, or do you slap that guy a punch so hard his father will feel it?


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  • #82
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Saipanne wrote: »
    If I had a friend who was dangerously underweight, I would say something.

    And would you hand a card to a complete stranger on public transport telling them they're so thin they're disgusting and that you resent the cost of their medical treatment?


  • #83
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Violence is never the answer, goys.


  • #84
    RDM_83 again
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    Penny Tration wrote: »
    You don't wonder :P it's because underweight with jutting bones is socially acceptable and dare I say it, something that some people think is an acceptable level to strive for.

    Nobody gives a Damn about overweight peoples' health. They don't like how overweight people look, that's it.

    I disagree fairly strongly, maybe among teenagers it is but IMO its sociably acceptable the same way being overweight is socially acceptable nobody thats not a prick goes out to shame somebody else and that goes for either way*.
    Myself and the guys I work with have noticed the woman we work with isn't eating enough and getting seriously skinny, we've passed a few comments about her small lunches and that maybe she should be eating more at the breaks to keep her strength up, there is no way if she was putting on weight that we would say she should pack a smaller lunch.

    *On the gender thing, women tend to carry weight more obviously and you can make a comment about guys weight a hell of a lot safer than you can a womans, to my mind thats why these comments come out more online because they can't be said in real life - also sites like boards have a male majority, we look at women with an "attention" we don't to men.


  • #85
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    And it's an easy way to bate the less intelligent into an assault charge.

    Many a man has hid behind the law only to be caught on his own, off the side, where it's just your word versus his.

    Fact is don't say hurtful things then argue with the outcome.


  • #86
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Sounds like dickish behaviour with the thinnest of bullsh!t disguises that it is some kind of well-meaning and worthwhile tough love which tells them what they need to hear.


  • #87
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    People don't hand out Fat cards to people on crowded public transport. People do make up stories for exposure though. They would both be perfect for the Daily Mail.

    Ding ding ding!

    Surely if the police were looking for someone, there'd be CCTV on the underground?


  • #88
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Candie wrote: »
    And would you hand a card to a complete stranger on public transport telling them they're so thin they're disgusting and that you resent the cost of their medical treatment?

    For the THIRD TIME......no.


  • #89
    Sigma Path
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭Sigma Path


    Deep Six wrote: »
    Something trivial? It's a provocation if anything. Let's put this scenario to you - you're in town on a Saturday night and some asshole says to your woman "you're an ugly bitch". Do you stand by twirling your moustache and say good day sir, or do you slap that guy a punch so hard his father will feel it?

    Have you ever seen anyone killed in the course of an assault? I have and it gives you a very different perspective on the use of violence.

    How many times have you punched someone that hard over an insult?

    You really seem like you have something to prove.


  • #90
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Many a man has hid behind the law only to be caught on his own, off the side, where it's just your word versus his.

    Fact is don't say hurtful things then argue with the outcome.

    True but it would be a little hard to explain dancing on someone head away if they did not fight back.


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  • #91
    Deep Six
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭Deep Six


    Sigma Path wrote: »
    Have you ever seen anyone killed in the course of an assault? I have and it gives you a very different perspective on the use of violence.

    How many times have you punched someone that hard over an insult?

    You really seem like you have something to prove.

    I have nothing to prove at all. My point is that if you are man enough to unfilter your mouth and run it without care of what distress or upset you cause, dont be surprised when someone shuts it with a fist. And yes, I have knocked out a couple of people over the years who didn't know when to stop talking and digging holes for themselves. Not proud of it but I won't let any ****head condescend or badmouth to people close to me without a response.


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