except science says that it isn’t just calories in/out (everyone noticed that you changed what macross actually said) and it isn’t just easy. there’s one of you on every article about fatness, get a fucking hobby

It doesn’t matter if she intended to, the message to young girls is the same eat a liquid diet and you’ll get a beach bod in 2 months.

And as you so aplty demonstrated it plays into the stereotype that all fat people do is eat all day and that’s why they’re fat.

I eat once maybe twice a day, I am a Green belt in Tae…

I’m an actor and read the script about a year ago before deciding not to audition for it. (The second I read the word fatsuit I was like “peeaaaace.”) The premise was so cringe-y that I decided a. it will be really awful or b. in the perfect director’s hands it coooould maybe be a super, super dark, sharp, edgy satire.…

Speaking as a person who is both ex-fat and ex-smoker.... only if the ex-person doesn’t try to underplay the difficulty. It isn’t easy to do either and pretending it is easy is just being a jerk to be a jerk. Most of the ‘no longer fat’ crowd did it in their teens or 20's, which is vastly easier to do than later in…

Sure. Of course they can. Some people are just assholes. But if someone has never pitched a shitfit at white people the job before, and the people they go off at are a minority race, and on top of that the negative stereotypes of the customer involve being poor and untrustworthy, and the person doesn’t trust the…

I grew up poor, and was living paycheck to paycheck out of school for several years. I’m doing great now.  I definitely don’t think people poorer than me are lazy.  I think it’s ridiculous for people in my socioeconomic class to try to claim poor people are lazy.

You’d think someone who’s been there and lived through the ridicule would be more sympathetic.  Also as someone in highschool you might not have access to the resources that a professionally employed person in their 30s does.  I don’t think people who struggled with obesity should be throwing stones, no.

Exactly. Fellow fat woman here, and I’m very bored of the idea of actors putting on fat suits (in which they always look extremely dumpy and frumpy for some reason.....) because there are still creators who see fat people telling their own stories as absurd and don’t believe that fat people actually groom themselves…

I know many, many women who have eating disorders: some active (and in denial in some cases), some in recovery, and some long in the past.

Aside from whether it’s good or not, you can make an over the top satirical statement about fat shaming without using the trope of “fat girl loses weight, is deemed hot and is now important enough to be heard.”

There are white patrons who have posted on facebook about the situation that stated they had never been asked to open a tab at Tomfooleries.

“It’s a bar that serves food. I live in KC and this is policy there.”

She was obviously running some very clever scam where she gets out of paying for dinner by paying before the food comes. Very clever, but can’t put one past that super-smart manager who sees through that “pay for the food first” ruse.

I’ve honestly never encountered that policy, and I travel a pretty good bit throughout the year, here and abroad. Neither has my husband; he travels for work at least one or two times a month to various Midwestern towns, and overseas two or three times per year. 

This is where the pendulum has lived, static and unmoving, for black people.

The restaurant has a fitting name for this story. I’ve never heard of a restaurant having an open tab policy for food. I lived in a college town and a lot of restaurants there had a policy of making you pay before you eat to cut down on dine and dashers but that’s different than an open tab policy. Once she offered to…

I really can’t imagine carrying around so much hate in my heart. I would be suicidal, myself, with all that misery.

The question is: Is the policy uniformly enforced for all patrons? If it’s only applied to...certain people...that’s a problem.

I’ve never heard of a policy like that for food — maybe to open a bar tab, but there’s the option of just paying for your drinks while at the bar. Has anyone else heard of such a thing? And why would getting a credit card be better than the person paying cash up front? If you were a scammer, you could always do a…

Looking over restaurant policy, they have a policy of asking for credit card or cash to secure a tab after 9pm. It is on the online menu and probably on the physical one as well. Given the amount of dine and dashing I’ve known about in that particular area of KC, this is not a surprising policy.