Katie Hopkins - Wow!

[andy-hughes]

What Katie doesn't grasp is that her husband's love for her is not rooted in her hip measurement - it's who she is.

I know that's difficult to accept, given just who she is, but it may have done her good to allow her husband to love her as much when she was fat as he did thin - it might have helped to address her seriously shallow hate-bait views about obesity.

That in turn might have made her a less shallow, self-obsessed, over-opinionated, attention-seeking idiot - which would be good for everyone! Media URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2889824/Katie-Hopkins-BANNED-husband-having-sex-piling-pounds-fat-people-aren-t-sexy.html
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[Dee Sa]

this fat,lazy bird i.e moi thinks this Katy woman is a patronising attention seeking prize pr*t. Do we really care if her hubby is getting his leg over or not ?

[B00]

pmsl @ Talbot!

And ta for replying Mamya x

[gness]

Aw...c'mon, Dee...did you see his poor little face?....Though that could be the thought of having to get his leg over....x

[jim360]

I don't think I am, Naomi, or at least less of a pickle then you seem to think. I shouldn't have posted that picture, but I don't think it undermines my first point.

At her "fattest", Katie Hopkins reached size 18. I don't consider size 18 women by default un-sexy, and I don't think of them as particularly fat either. A woman maybe two or three times as large as Katie Hopkins got, on the other hand, isn't sexy to me. But they are anyway two completely different degrees of fat. No contradiction.

[naomi24]

Jim, no contradiction you say, but when Katie Hopkins says fat isn't sexy, suddenly she's not stupid - she's right. Taking your first post into account, I'm not sure how that works but I'll take your word for it.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - "Good to see you address those important issues andy."

I think the fact that someone is given media space to encourage the perception that overweight people are overweight because they are too stupid and / or idle to be otherwise is important.

Feel free to ignore the issue if it doesn't rank up there with Islamic extremism / patriotism / immigration and your other exhausted hobbyhorses.

[Zacs-Master]

That's a very sweeping statement about fat people Andy. I know several overweight people who are that way because they are happy and don't give a fig about what others, like you, think. As for it being News.......

[ummmm]

What sweeping statement?

[andy-hughes]

Zacs-Master - "That's a very sweeping statement about fat people Andy."

Indeed it is - but you will need to take that up with Ms. Hopkins - it is her statement, not mine.

I don't stereotype people - she does.

[ummmm]

I think most fat people would rather be thin but not all fat people are lazy. My friend is big and she runs marathons and does that north swim....

My sister and niece are very large. They eat junk and lots of it. They could easily consume 3 times as much as me in one sitting.

[andy-hughes]

ummmm - "I think most fat people would rather be thin but not all fat people are lazy. My friend is big and she runs marathons and does that north swim...."

Absolutely.

We live in a society where obesity is not seen as acceptable, and it makes the majority of sufferers uncomfortable.

The obvious flaw in Ms. Hopkins' position is that she believes that if she is able to gain and then lose weight, then anyone can do it, and anyone who does not do so is simply stupid, or idle, or both - which is patently nonsense.

The majority of obese people do not possess Ms Hopkins' intelligence and willpower, together with her support systems and financial incentive to lose weight.

It would be interesting if an obese person was offered the same financial reward and training facilities to lose weight, to see if they could manage it.

[ummmm]

I also think it's harder to lose weight if you've been carrying it for a long time.

[Slapshot]

Hubby knew what he was getting into...... have no sympathy for either of them she is a prize nutcase, Mark ain't a lot better if he was sucked into her clutches....

[Zacs-Master]

But you support the fact that the reporting of her statement encourages people to believe that fat people are that way because they are idle and or stupid. I merely pointed out that this is incorrect, as supported by ummmm's posts. Your support makes you appear as stupid as Ms Hopkins.

[Retrochic]

Kate Hopkins is so bossy and self-opinionated I'm sure she must have deep psychological problems vis a vis self esteem and self worth. Maybe her next project could be having therapy sessions and recording if it makes her a less shallow self-obsessed over opinionated excuse of a woman.

[andy-hughes]

Zacs-Master "But you support the fact that the reporting of her statement encourages people to believe that fat people are that way because they are idle and or stupid."

I am unsure how you have managed to reach that conclusion from my posts Zacs - "...but it may have done her good to allow her husband to love her as much when she was fat as he did thin ..."

"I merely pointed out that this is incorrect, as supported by ummmm's posts. Your support makes you appear as stupid as Ms Hopkins."

Where do you draw the conclusion that I support her?

My 'support' - as in my original post - "That in turn might have made her a less shallow, self-obsessed, over-opinionated, attention-seeking idiot ..."

Not a huge amount of support there I would suggest?

[-Talbot-]

Katie Hopkins ‏@KTHopkins 2h2 hours ago
Little sweaty jocks, sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket. Scottish NHS sucks. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2013/12/1358/1 …

[-Talbot-]

Lovely woman!

[ummmm]

Such a charmer!

[Zacs-Master]

Andy, you wrote:
"I think the fact that someone is given media space to encourage the perception that overweight people are overweight because they are too stupid and / or idle to be otherwise is important."

The 'is important' bit I take to be your own words and conveys a view that you support her belief that fat people are that way because they are idle or stupid. If the 'is important' bit are not your words then you should have made that clear.