Comments on: People Who Want Punching: Chapter the First

By: Francesca

Francesca — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:03:04 +0000

Sniper-

The troll to whom you refer has been excused from this community.

By: Sniper

Sniper — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:27:05 +0000

Wow. I am utterly shocked that Mark hasn’t come back with the usual troll flouncy post. You know – “You people can’t handle the truth, so sorry I broke up your little lovefest, you’re all hypocrites and bigots and I regret I ever tried to share my sweet reason with you…” – that post.

By: Boy Named Sous

Boy Named Sous — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:29:05 +0000

I heard tiny screams in my head coming from all the brain cells suufering cruel deaths as I read that poetry. Although it does explain how Rya… er Mr. Trista… could be so dense as to think that “Uh, uh, uh!” is being supportive of a woman who obviously has some serious qualms about herself and her marriage.

golf-playing ang maid-banging… that killed me. I think I want a bite of plumcake….

By: Twistie

Twistie — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:47:16 +0000

Ah, Mark! I begin to see your problem. You seem to think that if we all just ate healthily, we’d ALL HAVE THE SAME SIZE BODY!

Perhaps it’s time to learn that different bodies are going to weigh different amounts, even if they’re consuming more or less the same diets. Also, coming on a plus-size blog and telling us we’re hypocritical and overindulgent? Is not a recipe for popularity.

Here at Manolo for the Big Girl, we do not chastise our readers for their dress sizes. We expect them to be adults who can make their own decisions as to what they will or will not eat. We encourage a positive self-image because it’s just as healthy a thing as eating balanced meals and getting exercise. Whether our readers do those things or not is up to them as individuals. What effect eating those meals and getting that exercise has on them is up to Mother Nature.

If you want to continue reading and perhaps even learn something, then you’re welcome to do so, of course. But if you keep just parroting back the same tired lines about how we’re all sitting here stuffing ourselves all day long and then complaining that we’re fat, don’t expect anyone to take anything you say as a useful criticism.

By: Sniper

Sniper — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:24:26 +0000

Starving yourself to get to a size 0 is just as bad as overeating your way to a size 18.

There is so much wrong with this sentence I don’t even know where to begin. It’s like one of those puzzles I had to dissect in Philosophy 101 in my heady undergrad days.

By: slownews

slownews — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:14:48 +0000

Marky, doll, we’re not skewering her. We are sorry for her, in her stupidity, poor self image, and slavery to the ideal this culture holds us to. And we’re angry at the editors who think her “problem” is newsworthy, and who are perpetuating the size 2 ideal for those kids or poor dears out there who haven’t figured it out yet. Now, when you’ve walked a few miles in our shoes, i.e., been the owner of a woman’s body through puberty, childbearing, and/or a few years into her 30s or 40s, then please do tell us all about being “healthy” or about weight/body image “issues.” Until then, please do everyone a favor and go post somewhere they care about your point of view.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:50:26 +0000

Hmmmm, you really don’t see the irony in skewering this poor woman? She’s got problems, of that I have no doubt, but none of you have any issues with the obese size 22 woman asking her to pass those cookies?

My point is, either they both have weight “issues” or they both don’t. Lambast her all you want, afaic she deserves it, but take a good look at yourself in the mirror and you just might see her reflection there, or they are two sides of the same coin, or … well hopefuly you get my point.

Look I don’t have problems with eating healthy and being a size 2 or a size 16, but there’s a line on either side that once crossed is signs of a problem. Starving yourself to get to a size 0 is just as bad as overeating your way to a size 18.

By: KateriBella

KateriBella — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:29:21 +0000

Mr. Trista’s (I like that name!) poetry would be likened to one around age 12 or 13, so full of angst, and wants to be seen as intelligent and and worldly and uses big words such as “plethora” and “pertaintly” in order to disguise the fact that he is 12 or 13 and has no more clue about anything than any of his little video-game playing friends (whom, by the way, would kick his angsty little ass if they knew what he was writing). For Mrs. Trista, however, fate will come around when Baby Trista comes home from his very prestigious grade school and asks, “Mother, why are you the same size as the skeleton model that hangs in the corner of our science room? Teacher says that those are our bones and that there is a layer of muscles, tissues, and skin that covers our skeletal system. Mother, were you born without the muscles and tissues? I shall discover a way to give them to you so that you can look normal; just like Tannim’s mom (KateriBella)! he he he he….

By: Plumcake

Plumcake — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:33:04 +0000

If Ann Coulter’s job was to write humorous essays? Absolutely.

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:33:25 +0000

Suggesting that Ryan and Trista deserve death because of this is just a touch extreme, no? Would you be okay with, say, Ann Coulter suggesting that the entire Democratic Party should go shower with hair dryers?