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I just sent an electronic post to the Chicago Tribune, which I believe syndicates "Dear Abby". Delayed reaction to a column from a while back:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ucda/20060303/lf_ucda/eyecandyholdsnobeautyforoverweightreceptionist ;
This is not the first time I've seen Jeanne Phillips use the word "overweight" in a letter as a pretext to offer unsolicited advice about someone's size while refusing to answer the question she was actually asked. IMHO, Pauline's daughter is bigoted on this issue. I don't see why she insists on using her mother's moniker, but I can't imagine her mother repeatedly displaying her own prejudices in such a high-handed manner, or her readers putting up with it. But after all, who's she enabling? Only some boss who's needling a fat person who wants the candy dish out of arm's reach. Not like he's hurting anybody who Really Matters...
Enough is enough.
I'm not a banner-waver for NAAFA because I think they go a bit too far the other way, attacking the mountain of research linking multiple diseases to avoirdupois. But I can see all too clearly the pervading attitude leading to the frustration leading to people joining NAAFA. I once had to strangle the impulse to strangle a co-worker who patted itself (gender-neutral identity protection 8) on the back for telling its child how fat he/she was. "Because they don't know, you have to tell them."
This tsunami of dysfunction actually didn't understand the estrangement of said child.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ucda/20060303/lf_ucda/eyecandyholdsnobeautyforoverweightreceptionist ;
This is not the first time I've seen Jeanne Phillips use the word "overweight" in a letter as a pretext to offer unsolicited advice about someone's size while refusing to answer the question she was actually asked. IMHO, Pauline's daughter is bigoted on this issue. I don't see why she insists on using her mother's moniker, but I can't imagine her mother repeatedly displaying her own prejudices in such a high-handed manner, or her readers putting up with it. But after all, who's she enabling? Only some boss who's needling a fat person who wants the candy dish out of arm's reach. Not like he's hurting anybody who Really Matters...
Enough is enough.
I'm not a banner-waver for NAAFA because I think they go a bit too far the other way, attacking the mountain of research linking multiple diseases to avoirdupois. But I can see all too clearly the pervading attitude leading to the frustration leading to people joining NAAFA. I once had to strangle the impulse to strangle a co-worker who patted itself (gender-neutral identity protection 8) on the back for telling its child how fat he/she was. "Because they don't know, you have to tell them."
This tsunami of dysfunction actually didn't understand the estrangement of said child.
