Letters to the Editor
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even without knowing a name a "personal history" generally overwhelms all capacity for rational thought
even more than the simple fact of disagreement (at least disagreement in any kind of pointed or effective way) does. I admit though that WITHOUT the personal element people are less inclined to participate, and trolls are a real problem although one woman's troll is another man's freedom fighter.
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Newsweek/MSNBC has an interesting article
about a woman who weighs over 200 lbs and is all upset that she must wear a fucking size 22 dress to the wedding. She is cheered when she loses 20 lbs to get to a size 20. What a crock of shit. She is still at or near 200 lbs and it is all about self control, she has none but expects us to feel sorry for her fat self. I don't.
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I just read that article
Are you on drugs? It's all about how she's started to incorporate total lifestyle changes in her eating and exercising. She's lost 30 lbs. so far. She will be very cute when she gets down to her ideal weight.
Why are you so disgusted with her? She seems to be all about newfound self-control. Sounds like you're just disgusted with her because she was ever fat in the first place. Try making sense occasionally, dude. Let me give you some advice, too--women like men who actually make sense and are not bitter, nasty and illogical.
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The woman has lost 20 lbs.,
by her own accounting (which means it is more likely 10 lbs, maybe) and pretty cute by whose standards? A hobo? She is fat, end of story. She will never break 175, on her best day. That is corpulent. Get with it.
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do you have a brain tumor?
Because you don't make any sense (in any of your posts, frankly, but particularly this "argument"). She is fat, she is losing weight, she describes in great detail the changes she's made and how she intends to keep going with them, and describes the results she's had so far, so again, what's your point? You complain about women not losing weight, and here's one who is, and you're still complaining. You demand that women lose weight, then say that they won't. You are amusing, though. Anyway, dude, lighten up.
And yes, as a guy I'll say she's got a cute face and I'm sure will be even easier to look at once she loses some more weight.
So remember, LIGHTEN UP, 'kay? Try to enjoy your life, doesn't sound like it's happening for you now.
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Debra is sad
Debra Dickerson has lost her mind. I truly feel her experiences as a black woman, and as a black woman desperate for some kind of literary fame or acknowledgment, have made her insane. I feel so bad for her kids. I'm biracial and cannot imagine the headtrips she's imposing on her poor, innocent children. I hope their father comes and rescues them from her. She is beyond self-loathing--she is a receptacle of hate that spews over whenever a paying gig comes calling.
Salon, can't you please find an intelligent, self-aware, talented black woman journalist who writes about all sorts of people, places, and ideas? Is this really too much to ask at this point in American history? Or are you too busy giggling about how Debra's gonna humiliate black people this week? Really base and sad and terrible. And something to stuff one's face over.
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Anonymous, as a guy, it just
demonstrates your low standards. She would look more appealing with an apple in her mouth.
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No, I have normal standards
and from your letters, you don't like any women at all, even from a pure physical standpoint. So: right hand or left?
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It is obvious that by your innate attraction
to corpulence you have a fat fetish.
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BRAVOOOOO!!
FINALLY! Somenone speaks up for the sisters who are not GYM-CHALLENGED! I live in the South and have to deal with all the BS about being "thick" or "phat" as an excuse for fat, unhealthy, cellulite-ridden obese sisters for YEARS!
As someone who owns two gym memberships, plays volleyball every week and keeps my HAIR DONE, there is no excuse for this video-whore mentality of what a REAL black woman should look like. If the look is fat and unhealthy, with bald patches from weave-damage then FORGET IT!
I am so sick of sisters who think that a size 16 is acceptable, or that "a man needs somehting to hold on to", or that using the hair salon as an excuse to skip the gym is OK. Come ON, black women!
I'm 32 years old, 5'7, 148 lbs and based on gym memership, decent eating and a will to want to live a LOOOOONNNNGGG time, I give these 20 year-olds a run for their money every day!
We need to understand that the author is not HATING on obese sisters, who are so quick to call out skinny bitches whenever someone has the AUDACITY to question unhealthy lifestyle choices.
She's simply saying that the "thick" mentality is played like an 8-track. Black women: Get a GYM MEMBERSHIP, put the POPEYES CHICKEN down and leave the YAKY #58 alone. Trust, your life will be better for it!
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Anonymous, normal standards by whose definition
a drug addict, a fat grease monkey in an auto body shop, a ditch digger, a man who likes women in a coma? Your standards are very low, but you get what you can can and can afford, so it makes sense your standards are low.
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Healthy,my ass
First, let me remove a point for a possible argument here. I,m a black man who has to get up early every day and workout. If I don't, I get fat. Not big, just fat. Just like those fat, not big women. I,ve just celebrated my 53th birthday. According to the experts, I will drop dead at 55 from hypertension and high blood pressure. Buuuulllllshit!!!!!!! Oh yeah, one more point to remove. To the suprise and delight of my wife of 28yrs I cured my ED problem by running every other day. I had the fancey runing shoes already, I just used them for what they where designed for. Simple cure, no drugs needed. Just one more issue, Your body will only use the food it needs to fuction. the rest of the stuff is stored as fat. There is not other reason. You over eat, you get fat.
What I have a problem with here is the body image issue. Why are so many back women fat (78%)? Why are they so at ease with it?
To be fair here I must admit I feel we are the most blessed men on the planet when it comes to having the most shapley women. They don't need to pack on extra fat on their natural bone/muscle structure to look sexy.
I've also dealt with the being black and all the stress that goes along with it, argrument. So you need to over eat all of that useless fattening feel good food to feel better, but in fact are actually killing yourself. Been there done that. It wasn,t working for me either. Time to try some thing else.
Just one last thing. I'm not rich, so I don't have a fancy gym in my home. I don't have the exta money or time to deal with a fancy health club. I do have a clear space on the floor. I know how to do a push-up, I did spend 6.72$ at Wallmart to buy a jumprope. IF I can,t run I walk. The bottom line for everyone is simple,you get out of life what you put into it. It is much safer to build muscle on your backside than to poison it with junkfood and fat.