Archive for October, 2010

Maura Kelly on Mike and Molly – Overweight Couples on Television – Marie Claire.

Whether or not this blogger feels this way isn’t really the issue in my mind. It’s why write this — who are you trying to help or empower? If being thin and healthy and skinny were that easy –EVERYONE would be. There is no snapping of your fingers, no magic pill and so many factors come into play when trying to figure out why someone is obese. Are there some that simply don’t want to get off their ass and do something about it? Yes — many actually, absolutely –  but perpetuating thoughts and discussions about intolerance and discrimination have no value. Sharing words of hate or intolerance no matter what the topic has no place in the world.

It’s not that much different than what happened with the stupid Ark. board member who posted that mean spiritied, hate filled anti-gay rant - Yes, you can think whatever you want in this great country of America and you can for the most part even share it –but that doesn’t mean you should.

Think about your intentions before you put something out there — I don’t think that Marie Claire blogger, Maura Kelly did at all.  People struggling with weight loss have enough media pressure, society pressures, self pressures –they don’t need to hear some random person with a public platform perpetuating more intolerance on their behalf.

The other day, my editor asked me, “Do you really think people feel uncomfortable when they see overweight people making out on television?”

Because I can be kind of clueless — I’m not much of a TV person — I had no idea what she was talking about, so she steered me to this CNN article, about the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly. As CNN explains, “the show centers around a couple who meet at an Overeaters Anonymous group [and] has drawn complaints for its abundance of fat jokes [as well as] cries from some viewers who aren’t comfortable watching intimacy between two plus-sized actors.”

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