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	<title>Comments on: PETA: Fat Shaming and Consequences</title>
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	<description>In defense of the sanctimonious women&#039;s studies set.</description>
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		<title>By: Oplease</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/18/peta-fat-shaming-and-consequences/#comment-270978</link>
		<dc:creator>Oplease</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>greatly improved survival and recovery from cardiac events by fat persons when compared to non-fat persons.


That&#039;s rich! Being fat makes a person much more likely to suffer a cardiac event in the first place. But just keep lying to yourself about fat being healthy. Since the world is grossly overpopulated I wouldn&#039;t mind if sickly fat people just rolled over and died. They don&#039;t though - they just cost a fortune in medical bills. Another resource overconsumed by fat people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>greatly improved survival and recovery from cardiac events by fat persons when compared to non-fat persons.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s rich! Being fat makes a person much more likely to suffer a cardiac event in the first place. But just keep lying to yourself about fat being healthy. Since the world is grossly overpopulated I wouldn&#8217;t mind if sickly fat people just rolled over and died. They don&#8217;t though &#8211; they just cost a fortune in medical bills. Another resource overconsumed by fat people.</p>
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		<title>By: chava</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/18/peta-fat-shaming-and-consequences/#comment-270844</link>
		<dc:creator>chava</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes Maria.  And all the people listing their experiences with weight upthread are LIARS.  And IMMATURE, because sticks and stones may break my bones, but giant billboards making fun of my ass shall never hurt me.

We all know that the fat fat fatties sit on their butts all day whilst eating baby flavored doughnuts.   

Sigh.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes Maria.  And all the people listing their experiences with weight upthread are LIARS.  And IMMATURE, because sticks and stones may break my bones, but giant billboards making fun of my ass shall never hurt me.</p>
<p>We all know that the fat fat fatties sit on their butts all day whilst eating baby flavored doughnuts.   </p>
<p>Sigh.</p>
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		<title>By: Maria</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/18/peta-fat-shaming-and-consequences/#comment-270841</link>
		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh Lord people.  Relax.  It&#039;s funny.  As far as the RIDICULOUS sarcastic comment as to it being so impossible for there to be legitimate reasons for being fat, how about you explain why exactly obesity rates have shot up like they have since a few decades ago?  I&#039;ll save you some time and say that most of it is due to changes in our society and the need to do many physical activities has been eliminated.  That&#039;s why people are fatter.  Because they&#039;ve stopped moving.  Also, awful eating habits plays a good role...  So PETA&#039;s of course, not right on the mark, as much of a surprise as that isn&#039;t, but the crazy claims you make are more off.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh Lord people.  Relax.  It&#8217;s funny.  As far as the RIDICULOUS sarcastic comment as to it being so impossible for there to be legitimate reasons for being fat, how about you explain why exactly obesity rates have shot up like they have since a few decades ago?  I&#8217;ll save you some time and say that most of it is due to changes in our society and the need to do many physical activities has been eliminated.  That&#8217;s why people are fatter.  Because they&#8217;ve stopped moving.  Also, awful eating habits plays a good role&#8230;  So PETA&#8217;s of course, not right on the mark, as much of a surprise as that isn&#8217;t, but the crazy claims you make are more off.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/18/peta-fat-shaming-and-consequences/#comment-270284</link>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I gained ALL my extra weight when I was 16 years old. I have ALWAYS been 275 lbs for the past 23 years. I just noticed the other day that I weighed 235 lbs and was not only surprised but scared. WHY am I losing weight? Do I have a disease? Damn you idiots that made fun of me in high school and damn you NOW those that still do!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I gained ALL my extra weight when I was 16 years old. I have ALWAYS been 275 lbs for the past 23 years. I just noticed the other day that I weighed 235 lbs and was not only surprised but scared. WHY am I losing weight? Do I have a disease? Damn you idiots that made fun of me in high school and damn you NOW those that still do!</p>
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		<title>By: Renee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Renee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Jane

I fully understand that PeTA uses the acronym PETA.  I do not feel that they are an ethical organization and to illustrate that point I purposefully use a lower case e.</description>
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<p>I fully understand that PeTA uses the acronym PETA.  I do not feel that they are an ethical organization and to illustrate that point I purposefully use a lower case e.</p>
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		<title>By: Weekly News Round-Up, 8/23/09 &#171; Women&#8217;s Health News</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/18/peta-fat-shaming-and-consequences/#comment-269956</link>
		<dc:creator>Weekly News Round-Up, 8/23/09 &#171; Women&#8217;s Health News</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] of Womanist Musings has been guest blogging at Feministe, and has this commentary there on PeTA&#8217;s latest appalling ad campaign. Kate Harding also covers the campaign at Shapely Prose. I usually try to ignore PeTA altogether, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] of Womanist Musings has been guest blogging at Feministe, and has this commentary there on PeTA&#8217;s latest appalling ad campaign. Kate Harding also covers the campaign at Shapely Prose. I usually try to ignore PeTA altogether, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: NuVegan.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Not Just Skin Deep</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/18/peta-fat-shaming-and-consequences/#comment-269770</link>
		<dc:creator>NuVegan.com &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Not Just Skin Deep</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] where I&#8217;m confused: The billboard was originally announced August 7th. Why all the outrage about it nearly two weeks [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] where I&#8217;m confused: The billboard was originally announced August 7th. Why all the outrage about it nearly two weeks [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Not Just Skin Deep</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/18/peta-fat-shaming-and-consequences/#comment-269768</link>
		<dc:creator>Not Just Skin Deep</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] where I&#8217;m confused: The billboard was originally announced August 7th. Why all the outrage about it nearly two weeks [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] where I&#8217;m confused: The billboard was originally announced August 7th. Why all the outrage about it nearly two weeks [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Jane G.</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/18/peta-fat-shaming-and-consequences/#comment-269694</link>
		<dc:creator>Jane G.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good post. Two little things:

1.) I&#039;m pretty sure it&#039;s &quot;PETA&quot; not &quot;PeTA.&quot; Why do you say &quot;PeTA&quot;? It&#039;s People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals&quot; - adjectives, like nouns and verbs, are capitalized in titles. It says &quot;PETA&quot; on their website.

2.) In response to some comments: Personally, I don&#039;t think anyone has a moral obligation to be healthy, and I think it&#039;s completely hypocritical to suggest that some tortured idea about the social cost of obesity is behind cruelty to fat people. Cruelty is cruelty. To call it &quot;concern&quot; is concern trolling. To call it in the public interest is just reaching for a convenient cover for being a bigot. Fat people are people. I&#039;m kind of fat but not very fat - I&#039;m not sure whether to say &quot;they&quot; or &quot;we,&quot; but either way, we humans (or, to do it PETA style, we sensitive beings) deserve to be treated with respect. The fight shouldn&#039;t be about whether fat is unhealthy. I have multiple sclerosis. That&#039;s unhealthy. You want to pick on me about it? What if I couldn&#039;t afford treatment, which is very expensive. Wouldn&#039;t the consequences to my health be punishment enough? There is NO NO NO NO fucking excuse for this shit. It makes me furious.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good post. Two little things:</p>
<p>1.) I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s &#8220;PETA&#8221; not &#8220;PeTA.&#8221; Why do you say &#8220;PeTA&#8221;? It&#8217;s People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals&#8221; &#8211; adjectives, like nouns and verbs, are capitalized in titles. It says &#8220;PETA&#8221; on their website.</p>
<p>2.) In response to some comments: Personally, I don&#8217;t think anyone has a moral obligation to be healthy, and I think it&#8217;s completely hypocritical to suggest that some tortured idea about the social cost of obesity is behind cruelty to fat people. Cruelty is cruelty. To call it &#8220;concern&#8221; is concern trolling. To call it in the public interest is just reaching for a convenient cover for being a bigot. Fat people are people. I&#8217;m kind of fat but not very fat &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure whether to say &#8220;they&#8221; or &#8220;we,&#8221; but either way, we humans (or, to do it PETA style, we sensitive beings) deserve to be treated with respect. The fight shouldn&#8217;t be about whether fat is unhealthy. I have multiple sclerosis. That&#8217;s unhealthy. You want to pick on me about it? What if I couldn&#8217;t afford treatment, which is very expensive. Wouldn&#8217;t the consequences to my health be punishment enough? There is NO NO NO NO fucking excuse for this shit. It makes me furious.</p>
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		<title>By: Dear PETA: Everyone Is Tired Of Your Bullshit &#124; The Angry Black Woman</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/08/18/peta-fat-shaming-and-consequences/#comment-269615</link>
		<dc:creator>Dear PETA: Everyone Is Tired Of Your Bullshit &#124; The Angry Black Woman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] are plenty of people out there talking about the reasons why this shit is unacceptable. Even vegans cannot countenance [...]</description>
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