Should "Fatties" Get a Room? (Even on TV?)

Should "Fatties" Get a Room? (Even on TV?)

As I arrived to work this morning.. I am greeted by my co worker who is telling me about this article written by Maura Kelly for marieclaire.com so I went over to read it.

You can take a look and read it just follow this link-- but maybe that's not such a good idea.. we will just be giving them more hits on their website =b.. ugh and I really don't want to do that.. but in case u r interested..  http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/dating-blog/overweight-couples-on-television

First let me tell you that I watch Mike and Molly and I have been doing so since the first Episode and I love it. I was excited to finally have a Show that has a Heart and shows feelings and can be relate able. The characters are great, and so down to earth and not fake and materialistic like other shows. I love Molly a School Teacher , played by the super adorable Melissa McCarthy (who played Sooky St James in Gilmore Girls and Dena in Samantha Who? ) and Mike one of Chicago's' Finest a Police officer who is played by Billy Gardell. I Love the characters and the Actors who portray them and to write something that undermines their work and their persons  is just so petty.

The show is about them finding each other and the struggles they endure some of them are in regards to their weight but mostly the show is about their blooming relationship and about the relationship they have with the people around them. I love the show because its a show that is Funny and has contents and its not a superficial show where every one is a size 1 and living in a penthouse or on the hills.

It's also more than a show about 2 people who are struggling with their over eating eating/weight. Its a show about Love and how two people who feel insecurities about themselves, finally take the leap of faith and put their fears to the side and take a chance on Love and on each other.  Something that we can all relate, because lets be honest we all have something that makes us insecure, that's what makes us human and I can empathise with others.

I am personally not offended by seeing two people who love each other kiss on TV or in public and I am not offended by seeing people who might not be what society thinks as perfect or beautiful show Public Displays of Affection. Love is Love and its a blessing to find it.

And I also understand that being overweight is not a good thing for health reasons. But no one has the right to criticize and make mean comments about other people and their appearance and say that they look disgusting.

However I am DISGUSTED by the Article written for marieclaire.com by Maura Kelly. I find that Article, the writer and specially marieclaire.com offensive for allowing this writer to write all that garbage.

I don't know about the rest of you, but to me by allowing this article to be posted on their website, it means that marieclaire.com supports this offensive view of overweight people.

To write about our opinions is one thing to blatantly state the following (straight quote from her article) is another.

"So anyway, yes, I think I'd be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other ... because I'd be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything. To be brutally honest, even in real life, I find it aesthetically displeasing to watch a very, very fat person simply walk across a room "—Should "Fatties" Get a Room? (Even on TV?) October 25, 2010 9:00 AM by Maura Kelly

You would think that this type of article would not have been written, specially in the wake of all the bulling that has been taking place and after a flood of all those Public Service announces calling for tolerance.

We need to remember that tolerance applies to every one who feels picked on for what ever reason be it that you are having issues with they way you look, your weight, sexual orientations, color or Race.
There was even one from President Obama calling for Tolerance and To Stop Bullying.. obviously this does not apply to certain people who think that because they look a certain way or have a certain job or position , they have the right to say offensive things and dictate what they think is beautiful, or acceptable in society.

If you are blessed to be in a position to get your voice across to the masses.. be responsible and let that VOICE be heard and used for goodness to uplift and help others , and not to criticize and beat someone down.

xoxox sea

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PS... To learn more about the writer you can google her name or take a look at her bio below according to it she herself has has suffered from an eating disorder.. and maybe she is experiencing self loathing and is projecting her discomfort. I can only pray for her and hope that she learns from this and is able to learn to love herself and others.

***Her Bio from marieclaire.com
Maura Kelly

Maura Kelly is a freelance writer who is working on a novel. Some of the things she loves: indie rock, peanut butter, Fellini films, the Brooklyn Bridge, running (slowly) in Prospect Park (always wearing New Balance sneakers) and The Brothers Karamazov. And definitely her friends, too; her tight circle includes a fashion designer, a hard news journalist, a couple magazine editors, a bike messenger-turned-lawyer, a professor of philosophy and an aspiring screenwriter. On her dating resume, there's an unusual number of visual artists, a couple of jazz musicians, and one guy named Thor. Though she's in her thirties, she's never been in love before - and has started to wonder if she ever will be. She's decided she has to start making dating her job if it's ever going to happen. Hence, this blog. Her personal essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Times, The New York Observer, The Washington Post, New York Press, Glamour, Salon, "Before and After: Stories from New York," and "Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Denial and Overcoming Anorexia," to name a few.

Twitter.com/MauraKellyBlog

14th Amendment / Who Is a CITIZEN...???

On Birthright

WOW .. I am amazed at the ignorance and at the stuff that some of the Nations representatives come up with. Is it "Target a Latino Decade"?


First Arizona wants to profile and deport all Non Caucasians .. Now we change focus and they are calling for a revision on the 14th Amendment.. Which gives citizenship to ALL PERSON BORN ON THIS LAND .

Let's take a look at this, new proposal.. If we are to change the Constitution and not allow children who are born in the US to illegal Parents Citizenship.. Then that means that the entire population of the United States with the exception of the Native Americans would all be {excuse the term don’t mean to offend just make a Point) WEtBACKS!!

Whether you arrived here on a Ferry, Train, Boat , Ship ,Plane, Land, with Visa or not… we as well as all the children would all be Wetbacks..

Because every one knows that this land belonged to the Native Americans and none of them gave any one permission to invade and settle in their land.

How ignorant can they possibly get.. Both the Republicans and Democrats are not here to help any one but themselves.. Now you shift gear and zero in on defenseless children.

If America wants to ensure that it's Future as a world power and a Great nation is not a bright one.. This is exactly the way to do it.

Instill fear on your Future Generations and start persecuting new born babies.. Start doing Raids in the Hospitals Maternity Wards and send ICE to all the Day Care centers, Elementary Schools.. And let's not forget to stop at the Middle and High Schools and deport all of your Citizen.

That’s to me is called DISCRIMINATION And its Unconstitutional.

Hunt and persecute children.. WOW . Those in power are making the Good old Red White and Blue a Mockery.


I only pray that someone comes along who has the sense to put a stop to all this nonsense. I guess the Politicians got tired of starting wars and persecuting other countries, and have decide to persecute their own citizens.

To many this might sound like such a great Idea.. Specially since it does not effect them or their loved one.. But lets just think about this a bit.. If the Senators think that they have a valid claim to Modify and edit the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution.. And Deny Citizenship to what they refer to as "Anchor Babies".. (Which the majority of the babies born here to Illegal's are not.. In order for a Child to be called or termed ANCHOR baby that would imply that all these illegal women.. Crossed the border or came to the US already pregnant.. And solely came to the States just to give birth, which I am pretty sure that is not the case.)

Anyways back to my point, if the Minority of the people in power decide that the
14th Amendment can be changes and deny citizenship to Children who are born to illegal parents.. They can also go down the line and Decide that after the taking away citizenships from the Latinos. they can move down the list and maybe modify or edit.. Or even eliminate both the 13th and the 15th Amendment and deny Blacks/ African American Freedom and the right to vote… and they will probable argue that Many don’t exercise this right to begin so they won't miss it.

And Women once Men of color start loosing their freedoms and right.. We are not safe either. The Big Boys might even say that some of us lack intelligence to make accurate decisions and maybe it's time for Men to decide and speak for us and there go our right.

If any one reads this whether you agree or not with what I say.. Just take a moment and think about what happens when Group Think prevails and what happens when we decide to persecute someone and we use the laws and the courts to discriminate, eventually the shift will change and one of us might be the new target.

I have provided for your enjoyment the Amendments that allow us to be free and that dictate how we should be treated and how we should not be mistreated.. Once one of them changes.. There is no telling which one will be next.



Amendment 13 - Slavery Abolished. Ratified 12/6/1865. History
1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights. Ratified 7/9/1868. Note History
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Amendment 15 - Race No Bar to Vote. Ratified 2/3/1870. History
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment 19 - Women's Suffrage. Ratified 8/18/1920. History
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.


sorry for the lenght... xoxox sea