But it (the exchange of messages, which may have just been one dumb kid making a mistake by posting to the wrong person) has gotten blown up into some variation of "the whole world hates fat women" - this is factually true, we seem to agree on that, and it was predictable. I did not say that Jezebel as a whole would…

1. I have no axe to grind against fat people. I dislike it when people are disconnected from reality and I see that a lot here. And I don't like when fat people try to embarrass me for not eating unhealthful food. But since most of them don't do that, I coexist very happily with people of all sizes.
2. I don't doubt…

It's not that hard - I highly recommend it, if you're capable. It's called "thinking critically", "having an imagination", and "questioning everything". I could come up with lots more scenarios that would be consistent with the limited amount of information we have here. But people seem more interested in jumping to…

"Rosebud"? Ewww, gross.
Come on, "researchgrrrl", try to at least research the threads in this article - they're full of stories about how horrible people are to fat women. Here's one I found at random: "Society dictates that fat people are acceptable targets. After all, it's all their own fat fault, right? (I was…

Do you understand how Jezebel works? Click on any article and then look at the list of articles on the left-hand side of your screen. What do you see? "Shut Up Fat Girl" - everywhere on the site, ie. "blasted all over Jezebel". This isn't complicated.

And no, I'm not saying that because I'm not interested in the…

Why the pause? Oh yeah, to mimic the comma - so you are actually demonstrating just why it makes no sense in the original, and why the generally accepted interpretation is so problematic.

And you have reminded me of another flaw in the interpretation: at least here (although I disagree with the meaning of your post)…

Once again, that's not what they wrote.

Right, it's not about fat shaming. That's why it says, "... the SIP proprietors and others who are callous about people's bodies..." Maybe you should read the article to the end.

Oh, for fuck's sake, there's no spin - that would have to mean that I'm choosing one of the many possibilities. Critical thinking and skepticism =/= spin.

It is entirely possible that he was fat shaming. It is also entirely possible that he was not fat shaming.

Andy is the chef - from their FB About page.

Did you read…

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Sure, that's one of the many possibilities (although if that's the case, then what April said about it being the owner's son would be untrue). Or he doesn't actually have a tenuous grasp of the use of commas at all, but just replied to the wrong person who asked him 2 separate questions. Either way, there's not much…

"Bless your heart for mastering the definition of 'straw man argument'. "
Too bad you still haven't, though. "Your comment assumes what occurred is purely misunderstanding that occurred because a 'dumb kid' thought he was replying to 'a buddy of his'. You have no proof of that." - Right, that's why I said this: I…

It's not "fat girls shouldn't talk", it's "fat girls, shouldn't talk" - big difference. Why is everyone assuming the comma must be incorrect? Oh, I know - because we want to make sense of something for which we actually don't have enough information. And because then we can get really outraged. I don't know what it's…

OK, just to get super-granular: He didn't actually call her a "fat girl", he said something about "fat girls" when she is only one person. So right away, he was talking about fat girls in general, and in order to believe the narrative that is being presented, we have to make the assumption that he is including her in…

There is an "Andy" who is the chef (from SIP's FB About page). Maybe the owner's son thought he was sending his message to him.

I'm not saying he's definitely a child - I'm just saying that there are so many more benign explanations that might possibly be true that it seems silly to trumpet this all over Jezebel as if their one interpretation of purposeful fat shaming is definitely true. I've said elsewhere that they definitely seem…

Anyone else notice that it took the restaurant 2 months to respond? This just seems to be a mistake. Also, go to their "About" page on FB - the chef's name is Andy. So maybe the chef forwarded the inquiry to the son, admonishing him for not having gotten back to her more quickly. And the son thought he was sending…

It really is baffling. But it doesn't surprise me when messages or stuff in social media makes no sense. Just about everyone has access to a computer and a lot people have terrible reading comprehension and even worse writing skills. It just seems silly to cherry-pick one of the many incomprehensible messages and…

Um, did I say that Jezebel had anything to do with the fact that the restaurant never replied? No, because that would make no sense at all. Jezebel does, however, exploit and misinterpret stories like this one (and often publishes misleading or frankly untrue headlines) to inspire outrage. You are not replying to what…

Well, duh, who could argue with that? However, I assume you're trying to say that 170 lbs is fat. Well, that depends on her height and % body fat. And she didn't indicate her weight in her message - there's just a photo, and unless she looks vastly different in the original (probably less blurry) photo, the owner's…