Are you serious?! Keep trying to correct me here, it's funny how you don't have a basic grasp of language and are belaboring a very simple point for no particular reason. But the fact that you tried to insult me at the end of your comment by issuing a "GOTCHA!" about how I must be fat or have fat kids like it's a huge…

Wow, you're a special one. "Fat" is a word that has a meaning. It refers to adipose tissue, or when applied to a person, refers to a person or animal who has a large or excess amount of flesh (or adipose tissue). Fat is not a meaningless term. Obese and overweight are classifications of fat people. Both overweight and…

Out of curiosity, have you been this engrossed in conversations about her mother dating a pedophile that molested her eldest daughter and her parents getting divorced and the whole family fighting with each other in the media? Or did you save all of your concern for talking about her weight?

look, you obviously have some kind of dog in this fight with the obesity thing

Right, instead of focusing on the shit that is actually happening in her life right now, like her parents' divorce and her family's breakdown being a public spectacle and potentially being exposed to convicted sex offenders, let's just focus on her theoretical-future-diabetes. It's not about this being a convenient…

Nice try turning it around to be about my insecurities, but no, the problem is that you're spending your evening fat-shaming a child who is clearly going through some serious challenges in her life and displaying a complete lack of empathy or understanding that her weight gain is a symptom of things going horribly…

Are you pointedly being dense? You can be obese and fat. Obese is a medical term, fat is a descriptor. By definition, all obese people are fat. Ergo, "she isn't fat, she's obese" makes literally no sense whatsoever. Does that make sense or shall I say it more slowly so you can understand? But thanks for the lesson in…

Was what I said really that hard for you to grasp? Obese people are fat. Fat people are often obese. What part of that does not make sense to you? "She isn't fat, she's obese" is one of the most illogical statements I have ever read. It seriously makes no sense. She is obese. And she is fat. Does that help?

You're not a racist either, because you have lots of black friends, right? Are you seriously trotting your fat family members out as proof that you're not a concern-trolling fatty-hater? Pfft.

She isn't fat, she is obese.

Well, to be fair, from what was shown of television Alana has always been full of energy and engaged in tons of exercise. She spent almost every episode of the show running around like a Tazmanian devil. Obviously her diet was not ideal, but I'm amazed how everyone is talking about how terrible her life is because her…

I know, man, of all the traumatic shit going on in this child's life right now (her parents' divorce, public family meltdown, possibly being exposed to sex offenders, her family's misery being a public spectacle), the worst tragedy of all is that she's obese and no longer cute. That is the worst thing about this whole…

I don't think you know anything about what HAES is even about. There are a lot of reasons people become obese, from genetics to difficult childhoods to medical problems to abuse to everything under the sun. The point of HAES is that even if you happen to have an obese body for whatever reason, you can still adopt…

Dude, her weight is far from the biggest concern in the whole twisted scenario. I was a chubby kid and became a fat adult, and you know, the fact that her family life has been bizarre since she was very young and is now in the middle of a very public family meltdown might have a little something more to do with her…

Oh, just watch me turn this into a political argument! Don't you dare watch a telethon for the Petfinder Foundation that encourages adoption and rescue and then sit down to watch the damn National Dog Show, which promote harmful breed standards and is affiliated with the American Kennel Club, which profits from and…

Very true; the lawsuit probably has everything to do with the plan to make Just Mayo available at your average Costco and Wal-Mart and even dollar stores, not sequestered in with the Tofurky and tofu at the supermarket like Vegenaise or only available to Whole Foods shoppers. And I think the fact that it's actually…

I read what you wrote in this thread, none of it of substance or contributing to meaningful conversation, as per usual! All you did was whine about how the way other people are talking about this issue irks you, without actually substantiating it, providing examples of what's problematic, or actually addressing the…

I hope this whole thing gets thrown out of court and Unilever/Hellmann's gets slapped with a huge fine for being whiny babies and wasting everyone's time, but seriously, I think this really does boil down to the fact that Just Mayo tastes better than Hellmann's gross gloppy mess. Just Mayo dances circles around every…

Yes, I read what you wrote. Maybe you're just not expressing your thoughts very well, or you're responding to some discussion that happened on Groupthink and not anything written in this piece or by people responding to things written in this piece, but you didn't address the lack of representation of larger women at…

I don't think picking her apart and scrutinizing is necessary, but I don't think it's outlandish to want to see a woman who is actually plus-sized modeling clothing that plus-sized women are expected to buy. I don't see anyone saying that she needs to eat a hamburger or is grotesquely skinny; she's a model, she's…