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  • Robert P. July 27, 2010 at 12:46 pm

    Is Britain’s size 14 the same as ours? I understand his concern about stick-thin models setting the bar for women, but size 14? Seems we have two competing evils here, emaciated and obese.

    • Paige December 6, 2010 at 9:22 pm

      Dear Robert- I am a size 14 and not at all obese. Not even by the doctors definition. And I still get a decent amount of male attention so sz 14 must not be that grotesque in everyones eyes.

  • Coffee Catholic July 27, 2010 at 1:52 pm

    Size 14 isn’t obese for pete’s sake! It’s that exact additude that is so destructive. Labelling a woman “obese” is just plain rotten to start with. And then making out that a size 14 woman is unnacceptable is downright stupid. When is our society going to move beyond having to have someone to hate and degrade? Chinese, Irish, Blacks, Jews… now “obese” people ~ we always have to have a “group” of people we can look down on, don’t we?

  • Robert P. July 27, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    A person has no control over his/her race, but “fatness” is totally within one’s control. Being fat is the same a choosing to be lazy or Republican.

  • Weston Z July 27, 2010 at 3:54 pm

    I think stereo-typing in either direction is a bad thing. Since some people think obese is a “hate” word I will say this. If my wife needed to wear size 14 clothes she would be fat; her bone structure is not meant to support a size 14 body. Women and men should both be taught to keep themselves fit and healthy and more importantly…..virtuous.

    • Dwayne September 20, 2011 at 5:35 pm

      Weston, you have said what needed to be said, and many have felt like saying, but for whatever reason, have not. We have those people who want our females to look like skeletons with skin or, at the opposite extreme, will not be satisfied unless all females are a size 40(or more). Rosie O’Donnell, M’Onique, and Camryn Manheim have even put down other women for NOT being fat, which is the same as putting down someone for being fat.

  • Weston Z July 27, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    That blue dress is definitely not modest. That part of her image is certainly not good role modeling!

  • Colleen Hammond July 27, 2010 at 7:28 pm

    Evidently, a size 14 in the UK is a size 12 in the USA: http://www.frenchfriends.info/practical_travel/clothing_size_conversions

  • Colleen Hammond July 27, 2010 at 7:34 pm

    I’m over six feet tall….so a size 12 or size 14 would fit on my frame and I wouldn’t look obese.

    I think the MP’s point is that a size 0 isn’t real.

  • Lisa August 8, 2010 at 7:47 am

    As if just by gaining a few pounds, all women could have an amazing hourglass figure. Sometimes, gaining weight just means we’ll continue to have a tiny, nearly non existent chest, a bulge of fat around our middles that hangs down when we lean over and outsized thighs and backside so that we’re shaped like a “lovely” pear. Everyone is different and weight gain is not necessarily something to recommend. If only (!) I could just suddenly be more “womanly” if I put another 20 p0unds. How nice that would be! AS they say: dream on.

    • Colleen Hammond August 8, 2010 at 12:57 pm

      LOL!!! So true, Lisa. SO TRUE!!! DREAM ON! Or bring out the ice cream.

      I know that for a woman to be a ‘plus size model’, she has to work out JUST AS MUCH as a ‘bathing suit’ model. Those size 14 pounds have to all be in the right areas, as you say. Muffin tops need not apply! ;-)

  • Mary G August 9, 2010 at 7:23 am

    Weight gain actually is something that I think needs to be recommended to a LOT of young women. Along with some added weight, though, these women need to add some physical activity or work out. The goal for most women is a dress size or weight rather than a healthy body. I can be an unhealthy size 4 and look fabulous but be extremely unhealthy, weak, sedentary and otherwise unfit or I can exercise and eat well and be a very healthy size 8-10. It’s not all about your weight or dress size but that is the only thing most people focus on and I think that does women a great disservice. Even women need to be physically active.

    • Colleen Hammond August 9, 2010 at 9:41 am

      I agree wholeheartedly, Mary! I saw an article recently that charted the increase in obesity over the past couple of decades. Television, video games, online social media…reminds me of that part in the movie Wall-E where everyone was obese and sitting in their moving chairs with monitors in front of their faces.

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