We report, you decide
ET correspondent puts on the fat suitMust be a trend! Is it time for the sit-com featuring the 350-lb star?
Last week it was Tyra’s turn to play a 350-lb fat woman on TV. Now whether this was a case of copycatting or serendipity (?) I don’t know, but ET has the same plotline with their correspondent, Vanessa Minnillo (pictured).
Again with the pretty girl who is shocked by the different treatment:
The men who usually whistle and screech at any woman who walks by were not only silent — they practically broke their necks turning away from me.
Hey, that’s the world I want! A world where construction workers cat call at us really fat people too!!
Big Fat Blog notes that at the end, Vanessa actually comments that when she started acting differently (a la “more like myself”), people responded better.
Anyways, I know they are well meaning. But maybe I’m just a little pissy, as I caught this at the tail end of yesterday’s 60 Minutes:
Beginning Monday, the CBS Evening News goes back on the road again for a new series entitled “The Road to Ruin: Fighting Obesity.” Correspondent Mika Brzezinski will travel from Houston to Minneapolis looking at obesity in America and report on some of the everyday issues facing overweight Americans.
That’s an interesting way to spin it.
I got Fat Politics over the weekend and am working on a post about it. It’s quite interesting (and got a thumbs up from Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt) and very timely given the increased media fascination with all things obese.