TV Anchor Takes on Viewer Who Complains About Her Weight

[Kevin Slater]

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Kevin Slater

[bigvalboy]

Excellent Kevin. A timely and thoughtful response especially now during this month. Thank you for posting and for showing all those out there, who for whatever reason, makes light of or does not take this subject seriously. As many of us already know, bullying has caused far too many young people to end their life.

[+ deej]

The guy who wrote the original letter, a personal injury lawyer, has responded by doubling down on his original remarks and reinforcing the opinion many people already have of personal injury lawyers.

[Businessguy]

I applaud the woman for standing up for herself in a classy and eloquent way. The guy is just a self-absorbed jerk.

[seaboy4hire]

Really? Like there wasn't something that was actually news worthy to report? She had to go on tv and cry cause someone called her over weight? *rolls eyes*

 

Hugs,

Greg

[bigvalboy]

Really? Like there wasn't something that was actually news worthy to report? She had to go on tv and cry cause someone called her over weight? *rolls eyes*

 

Hugs,

Greg

 

In all fairness seaboy, if you listen to what she is saying occured, he did much more than call her 'over weight'. I personally feel that there are a multitude of issues here, and in my opinion, he crossed the line.

[seaboy4hire]

In all fairness seaboy, if you listen to what she is saying occured, he did much more than call her 'over weight'. I personally feel that there are a multitude of issues here, and in my opinion, he crossed the line.

 

If she is happy the way she is then more power to her. So long as she is happy with herself that is all that matters. I've seen the video before a few days ago. But to go on air and call the guy out even if she didn't reveal who he is, is not very news worthy. It is a waste of what could had been worth while news. I would had never allowed her to do what she done if I were the station manager. My advice to the lady, stick to the news and quit your whining.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[Kevin Slater]

If she is happy the way she is then more power to her. So long as she is happy with herself that is all that matters. I've seen the video before a few days ago. But to go on air and call the guy out even if she didn't reveal who he is, is not very news worthy. It is a waste of what could had been worth while news. I would had never allowed her to do what she done if I were the station manager. My advice to the lady, stick to the news and quit your whining.

 

Hugs,

Greg

 

Greg-

 

That's why it's called an editorial.

 

Kevin Slater

[bigvalboy]

If she is happy the way she is then more power to her. So long as she is happy with herself that is all that matters. I've seen the video before a few days ago. But to go on air and call the guy out even if she didn't reveal who he is, is not very news worthy. It is a waste of what could had been worth while news. I would had never allowed her to do what she done if I were the station manager. My advice to the lady, stick to the news and quit your whining.

 

Hugs,

Greg

 

Well we obviously see this story very differently.

[rocky]

I am an obese man. And I've heard so much over the last four years of how we need to curtail obesity; no I'm not blasting the Obama's since I think they are great but the First Lady has been point one one obesity. OK, that being said I found this newspersons response very confusing. She admits to being fat, as I do. Yet when someone calls her on that and there is a national attention to it she calls it an attack and almost a hate crime. No, sorry I don't see this the same way. While the person may have been insensitive if you look where we are in society, god forbid you smoke, or have a 32 ounce soda in NYC and so on; he was just saying; Hey, you are in public and some may look at you and say, it's OK to be big, yet elsewhere we hear, stop so you don't be big. I know I'm confused..

[bigvalboy]

Rocky I actually went back to view this again, as I am confused how people are looking at this so one dimensionally. She is speaking out, in my view to a much broader issue that has begun to permeate our society as a whole, and that is the issue of bullying. She clearly spoke to the children of this society that are bullied every day for their race, weight, sexual preference, physical appearance, even their gender. Saying unkind things to people we don't even know, in my view is despicable. As to the specific issue of weight, we don't know there lives or the reasons why people are overweight.

 

I had a neighbor once who began to put on weight. The neighbors began commenting, many even laughing, and saying that it was ridiculous that she did not respect herself enough to control it, or commenting that perhaps she needed to take Domino's pizza off speed dial. More than a year later, she asked me one time if I could give her a ride to the doctor as she was too weak to drive. On the ride there, I found out that she had cancer and was terminal. The excessive weight was from the medication. She was ashamed at her appearance, but could do nothing about it. We never know.

 

I have had to deal with school administrators over the bullying of my nephew, simply because he is smaller than the other boys at his age. He told me he wanted to die... My approach was less than amicable.

 

I think that she made the point very clear in her video. I am sad the others do not see the ramifications of bullying and the broader issue that she was attempting to make here. For the news anchor, I personally never once saw her comments as whining, and one cannot help but wonder if the news anchor was a man, if he would have sent the same message. And that is all that I have to say about that.

[EXPAT]

She also said on "Good Morning America" that she has a thyroid condition that doesn't allow her to lose weight easily and she is very active in sports and she actually runs marathons and other races regularly. So this guy clearly didn't know much about her and to double down in such a rude way is uncalled for all the way around. If he had approached her initially with an offer to help instead of criticizing her right off the bat none of us would be talking about it.

[BSR]

I am baffled by both this woman's response and to the outpouring of support for her public response to her "bully." Yes, bullying is a very serious issue. I hear or read accounts of abusiveness, threats, and physical violence that are psycho. Bullying not only hurts the victims of bullying, but left unchecked, it destroys the bully him/herself. But it seems that every bit of nastiness or even rudeness is now classified as "bullying." Was the egotistical prick who wrote that letter completely out of line? Sheesh, absolutely!! Was he a bully? Uh, no, I'm just not seeing that.

 

Here's a shocking revelation: people can be mean, nasty, sometimes even unbelievably cruel. As someone who works in the tourist trade in Las Vegas, I have to deal with hundreds of people every day, some wonderfully nice, most decent and polite, but of course the occasional asshole who isn't just rude, but meaner than sh*t. Guess what? There isn't any principal or anyone else who will intervene and make the malevolent assh*le cease and desist. I just have to deal with the nastiness. But you don't have to work in customer service to run into such nastiness. It can be a co-worker, a relative, a neighbor, or anyone you'd rather not deal with but you're unfortunately stuck in a situation where you must.

 

For kids, real bullying should be dealt with, for the sake of the bullies and the bullied. But if somebody's just being a jerk, even a monstrously egotistic jerk like this guy with his insulting and condescending "offer to help," that's not bullying. This TV anchor is no more a victim of bullying than any other American with the misfortune of running into an assh*le on a particular day. Sheesh, the TV anchor should try dealing with some of the screaming belligerent f*ckfaces I have to deal with day in, day out. But I'm not about to go on TV to portray myself as a victim, nor would any of the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Americans who deal with similar situations ever day. We just deal with the bullsh*t, because that's life.

[bigvalboy]

We just deal with the bullsh*t, because that's life.

 

You might be the kind of person that just takes it because it is life. Not me sister, someone is an asshole to me, I'll call em on there bullsh*t every single time, I don't care who they think they are....LOL LOL But kudos to you for doing what you do day in and day out. My favorite people in all the world are people who work in the service industry, like airline stewardesses, what a thankless job.

 

I have called out friends of mine right in front of waitresses when they were rude to them. The other day I told a lady off who was sitting behind me on a plane and was giving the steward a hard time. I turned around and told her to shut the "F" up and sit down, that she was being completely unreasonable, and you know what, she did, because she knew she could get away with giving the steward shit, but she looked at me and I starred her down. Messing with someone that might "F" with you back is a whole new ball game.....sorry, didn't mean to get all wound up here, but most of these people that bully or are rude, do it because they "can", and they think that the other person can't do anything about it, well sometimes they can't, but if enough people had the nerve to stand up and say, "that was rude and you should not have said that" then perhaps things would change.

 

There is also a lot of disrespect for women in this world. If the news anchor was a black guy who was an ex-football player, and overweight I am guessing he never would have sent that nasty email....would love to see that go down. I saw "Magic" the other day in LA....guess what, he is over weight also, I would love to see that little "A" hole send "Magic" something like that. Well anyway, God bless you for doing what you do everyday.

[jackhammer91406]

Getting the story right..

 

I have to agree with those who say the story is deeper than an obese woman complaining about criticism. She clearly was expressing concern about bullying. I think this is a story that is less about her and more about the small minded guy who wrote to her. While she seems to have a strong self image, I believe she was addressing a very real issue facing young people who are overweight for whatever reason and not whining about criticism of her. Look past her size and listen to what she is saying. Bullying is a learned behavior and anytime an adult (any adult) expresses a mean spirited personal criticism of another, that adult is contributing to the education of a young person who may observe that behavior and assume it is OK. It isn't OK.. We need to err on the side of caution and call it bullying if there is ANY trace of it.