At least 30% of the film is dropping facts about the myths of intentional weight loss and BMI... but tell me more about how "it doesn't go into the health side as much as I would like." Weird comment aside... amazing film, Jeanie and Aubrey!!!
I think they meant the film doesn’t go into the increased health risks associated with being morbidly obese, at least as not as much as they would have liked. I haven’t seen the film but I’m curious to see it.
@@emiiii It's a documentary about one fat woman's story. They think the existence of a fat person gives them the right to expect the film is about what they want to hear and see, which is "all fat people are unhealthy because of A, B, C, and here's why they're objectionable." The film is about Gordon's life, and experiences. At *no* point would someone do a documentary about a "morbidly" thin person and reviewers would say "it doesn't go into the health side as much as I would like," or "you want people to be treated on the content of their character, not on anything else, certainly not on their physical appearance, HOWEVER, we are talking about individuals who would fall into the category of morbidly underweight..." They claim to have empathy show very little evidence of that. The male reviewer in particular seems to imply empathy for fat people as human beings should be conditional. We don't deserve to be judged on our character so long as our appearance is unacceptable.
Anna Smith and the Sky News interviewer completely miss the point and are absolutely, 100% GUILTY of the exact fat bias Aubrey is trying to shine light on: they reveal the film made them “start” to have empathy for fat people, most likely because they didn’t have much already. Yet like everyone else, are incapable of making it a complete sentence. They HAVE to bring up unsolicited criticism and commentary about how fat people are not only unhealthy, but must be publicly confronted with this objectionable state of affairs, ie. that is, existing while fat. If someone was severely underweight, would we be so callous as to feel the right to openly air our “concerns” about their physical health which is oh so obviously a problem? Or how they’re a “burden” on the country’s health system? Or tell them to “eat more and exercise less?” Or would we maybe think their mental health is more important, think better of it and keep our mouths shut? Fat people get no such consideration. We don’t owe you any disclosure about the status of our health anymore than you owe us information about yours. Not to mention the veiled implication that how “novel” it is that a fat person could write a popular blog about her feelings, have it go viral and then have a documentary made about her leaves them flabbergasted at the very prospect that a fat person could get any positive attention at all, let alone write a bestseller. FFS. I’m not surprised by their attitude. At all. *cue comments from the public about the obesity epidemic, burden on health care and unhealthiness of the “morbidly” obese.* You know what else is grossly unhealthy? Making people feel ashamed about their existence. Jeanie, thank you for the film. I just wish this was intelligent commentary from people capable of decent human behaviour.
At least 30% of the film is dropping facts about the myths of intentional weight loss and BMI... but tell me more about how "it doesn't go into the health side as much as I would like." Weird comment aside... amazing film, Jeanie and Aubrey!!!
I think they meant the film doesn’t go into the increased health risks associated with being morbidly obese, at least as not as much as they would have liked. I haven’t seen the film but I’m curious to see it.
@@emiiii It's a documentary about one fat woman's story. They think the existence of a fat person gives them the right to expect the film is about what they want to hear and see, which is "all fat people are unhealthy because of A, B, C, and here's why they're objectionable." The film is about Gordon's life, and experiences.
At *no* point would someone do a documentary about a "morbidly" thin person and reviewers would say
"it doesn't go into the health side as much as I would like," or
"you want people to be treated on the content of their character, not on anything else, certainly not on their physical appearance, HOWEVER, we are talking about individuals who would fall into the category of morbidly underweight..."
They claim to have empathy show very little evidence of that. The male reviewer in particular seems to imply empathy for fat people as human beings should be conditional. We don't deserve to be judged on our character so long as our appearance is unacceptable.
Anna Smith and the Sky News interviewer completely miss the point and are absolutely, 100% GUILTY of the exact fat bias Aubrey is trying to shine light on: they reveal the film made them “start” to have empathy for fat people, most likely because they didn’t have much already. Yet like everyone else, are incapable of making it a complete sentence.
They HAVE to bring up unsolicited criticism and commentary about how fat people are not only unhealthy, but must be publicly confronted with this objectionable state of affairs, ie. that is, existing while fat. If someone was severely underweight, would we be so callous as to feel the right to openly air our “concerns” about their physical health which is oh so obviously a problem? Or how they’re a “burden” on the country’s health system? Or tell them to “eat more and exercise less?” Or would we maybe think their mental health is more important, think better of it and keep our mouths shut? Fat people get no such consideration. We don’t owe you any disclosure about the status of our health anymore than you owe us information about yours.
Not to mention the veiled implication that how “novel” it is that a fat person could write a popular blog about her feelings, have it go viral and then have a documentary made about her leaves them flabbergasted at the very prospect that a fat person could get any positive attention at all, let alone write a bestseller.
FFS. I’m not surprised by their attitude. At all.
*cue comments from the public about the obesity epidemic, burden on health care and unhealthiness of the “morbidly” obese.*
You know what else is grossly unhealthy? Making people feel ashamed about their existence.
Jeanie, thank you for the film. I just wish this was intelligent commentary from people capable of decent human behaviour.