if only americans had thin role models, people we could see every day on tv, in movies, and print media, then as a nation we would have some chance of becoming skinny.
why are we hiring a doctor, of all people, to talk about our national health! why can't we find some tiny, photogenic person and just show her picture to everyone! why am i the only person who cares about america!
First, she is clearly qualified and her weight has nothing to do with her ability to do the job well. Second – and I should preface it by saying that I look a little like Burl Ives – what if she takes the extra initiative and starts a "Slim Down, America" campaign wherein she invites Americans to join her in a fitness/healthy-eating program of her own design, and the entire country loses weight together, including her?
Other possible names for the "program" include:
-Who's skinny now, France
-I'd like the Oreo Milkshake 64
-Kale we can believe in
-Yes we can...not really go for another McGriddle right now.
-Hands across another Kashi pizza because, I mean, they're only like 300 calories each and that's not really a dinner.
There was a scene in that new show about a model who dies and comes back as a size 14 lawyer where she had all her new friends stand up and points out that they are the typical size of an American woman nowadays.
"If she were a fat white Southern Republican Christian woman nominated by Bush, we wouldn't be having this conversation, because Slogfolk would be leading the "stupid fattie wants a job!" mockery parade. "
Is perhaps the best thing written on slog today. Kudos!
Seems very simple to me.
She doesn't just have "big boobs." She's quite clearly obese. And choosing an obese person to be the leading spokesperson on public health is the same as choosing someone who smokes. It makes no sense at all.
I'd say her weight makes her more qualified to be surgeon general, since she won't be taking money under the table to encourage people to go to weight loss programs that don't work and take your money anyway.
What does here body size/shape have to do with her qualifications for the Surgeon General position? The argument being made against her tries to construe the (supposed) symbolic value of having a thinner person in that position as some sort of substantive characteristic that should trump education, experience and leadership. That's quite possibly the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time.
"if she were a man we wouldn't be having this conversation" because, in this picture especially, it is her breasts that make her look especially overweight - without them, she would just be on the heavier side of normal.
Her arms don't look that big, that's for sure.
@1,
I always trusted/liked my overweight PE teachers better than the skinny ones. I don't want some skinny bitch lecturing me on my health.
why are we hiring a doctor, of all people, to talk about our national health! why can't we find some tiny, photogenic person and just show her picture to everyone! why am i the only person who cares about america!
Other possible names for the "program" include:
-Who's skinny now, France
-I'd like the Oreo Milkshake 64
-Kale we can believe in
-Yes we can...not really go for another McGriddle right now.
-Hands across another Kashi pizza because, I mean, they're only like 300 calories each and that's not really a dinner.
Don't be hatin.
"If she were a fat white Southern Republican Christian woman nominated by Bush, we wouldn't be having this conversation, because Slogfolk would be leading the "stupid fattie wants a job!" mockery parade. "
Is perhaps the best thing written on slog today. Kudos!
For the record: "If she were a man we wouldn't be having this conversation" and "I'd hit it."
She doesn't just have "big boobs." She's quite clearly obese. And choosing an obese person to be the leading spokesperson on public health is the same as choosing someone who smokes. It makes no sense at all.