Additionally, I’m glad that you’re making the daily choice to focus on your desires, but I don’t think that “health, vitality, and energy” are only possible when you’re thin, and that “paralysis, futility, and hopelessness” are due to fatness. I think that diet culture reinforces that dichotomy.

I think she still has an eating disorder. Check out this article on her from the Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/may/24/meme-roth-obesity-nutrition

Okay, now that fashion’s out of the way, let me just say that we’re lucky to have you as a spokesperson to set the record straight on some of this nonsense. Something tells me that exercise lady used to have an eating disorder… The way she demonizes fat people who dare to think they’re “entitled” to have their money accepted in exchange for an airplane seat is shameful. I mean, are they only going to allow people with 6-pack abs and toned biceps on planes and all the unhealthy ones who don’t pass a physical pre-flight will just have to take Greyhound?

I’m sorry they made this story such a circus by using such a nut job as the spokesperson. It’s also too bad that they didn’t touch on the larger issue of America’s war on obesity and how it’s warping the focus that should be on well-being more than well-looking. Oy.

Love!

I don’t think anyone is against exercise. I like exercise. But exercise and eating well does not equal weight loss for most people.

I think that the seats should be bigger over all. No one is comfortable in those seats, no matter who they are. And I think it’s an invasion of privacy to have bigger seats for some people based on BMI.