men and women

Luke Benjamin Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Fri Sep 7 15:24:24 PDT 2001


I'm as skinny as a toothpick, but I find the term "fattie" as offensive as "faggot" or "n-word."

-- Luke

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Ken Hanly wrote:


> Well US entrepreneurs are just like everyone else. Of course most think
> there are not overweight and exercise enough but according to this study 36
> per cent are obese.
>
> http://www.entrepreneur.com/Magazines/Copy_of_MA_SegArticle/0,4453,281635---
> -1-,00.html
> Cheers,
>
> Ken Hanly
>
> p.s. surely there are lots of exceptions to the perfect body image that have
> been remarkably successful on TV. and film. John Candy and a host of other
> fatties,
> plus numerous shorties, and women not particularly attractive as perfect
> body types.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:03 PM
> Subject: Re: men and women
>
>
> > Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > >What's interesting (if not surprising) is that while Americans, male
> > >or female, are on the average among the fattest of the world,
> > >American actors in Hollywood movies now display the best toned
> > >bodies of all movies of the world.
> >
> > Fat is a class issue. I've heard it said - and though I haven't
> > factchecked this, it sounds entirely right from what I've seen - that
> > there isn't a single fat CEO of a Fortune 500 company. And contrast
> > slender marathon runner Robert Rubin with the 300-lb steak and wine
> > for breakfast J.P. Morgan. Urban yuppies of both sexes are generally
> > fit; plumpies are rare.
> >
> > Doug
>



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