tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16768178.post3596028436565542413..comments2023-10-16T07:40:38.179-05:00Comments on Hear me Roar: Update from Meme RothUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16768178.post-19019560247170709272007-06-07T20:08:00.000-05:002007-06-07T20:08:00.000-05:00Hampton Smith = my hero:)Hampton Smith = my hero<BR/>:)Tobeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766767971739035215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16768178.post-9133956896263234992007-06-07T18:56:00.000-05:002007-06-07T18:56:00.000-05:00Humph! I got that same "form" letter from Ms. Roth...Humph! I got that same "form" letter from Ms. Roth. Now I didn't send her a death threat, but I did tell her she looked like an f***ing cadaver and needed to gain 20 lbs. I guess for her weight gain is the same as death eh? Of course, she's gonna keep up with her spin. Meme hears only what she wants to hear, sees only what she wants to see and she wants to see a nation of spindleshanks and hear women hating themselves for not being thin. what a sad life she leads.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16768178.post-21673983100358283412007-06-07T18:45:00.000-05:002007-06-07T18:45:00.000-05:00Below a letter to Ms. RothI don’t watch American I...Below a letter to Ms. Roth<BR/><BR/>I don’t watch American Idol unless I’m being held captive at an airline gate or waiting in a long line at the grocery store (where I of course will have avoided the central aisles and shopped only along the vegetable, fruit and whole grain laden periphery). But I couldn’t avoid this latest tempest in the teapot of American pop culture involving your founder Ms. Roth and the recent winner of American Idol, Jordin Sparks. <BR/><BR/>MeMe Roth is of course correct in her estimation that Americans eat too much, surround themselves with easily accessible empty calories and are sedentary. But her vicious sand bagging of a young women of color, has done your organization’s efforts to raise awareness of these problems and to correct them more harm than good, especially among communities of color where the hectoring attack on national television of a 17 year old talented girl of color by a skinny, white, mean spirited, blond, suburban drone named “MeMe” will be dismissed as the delusional rant of an unfulfilled scold – to put not too fine a point on it. I don’t necessarily agree with every aspect of this assessment, but as someone who shares your concern about obesity and about the junk food industry’s stalking of young children, I assure you that is how she came off. By any reasonable, informed estimation unbiased by prejudice for bone thinness as the feminine ideal, Jordin Sparks is not obese or fat as Ms. Roth clearly implied. As a self appointed nutrition expert --forgive me but I’m unaware of any academic or professional credentials that vouch for Ms. Roth’s expertise -- she should be familiar with the developing consensus that some people will never drop below a certain weight unless they starve themselves. <BR/><BR/>One is left to wonder whether Ms. Roth is completely unaware of the other food-related epidemic that grips American culture, as thousands of once happy, assertive girls grow into neurotic, anorexic and bulimic young women starving themselves to perfection and causing their families anguish and panic. One is also left to wonder whether Ms. Roth has chosen to exorcise her own food demons not just on the backs of the dangerously obese, but on the lives of healthy women and girls who have chosen to eschew the obsessive pursuit of rail thin waifishness and compulsive exercise that perhaps Ms. Roth has adopted in favor of the normal development of breasts, hips, thighs and buttocks. Perhaps she is resentful of women who have, despite the best efforts of fashion advertising, managed to avoid an aversion to their own bodies. And if Ms. Roth finds my speculation, and, no doubt, the unkind speculation that countless other people are making about her, about her personal life and her mental health (or lack thereof) intrusive or offensive, perhaps she will come to understand the limits of her armchair medical practice, will give us a break from her self aggrandizing tedium, and return to doing something that has even a meager chance of convincing people to eat a wide variety of healthy foods and exercise regularly. We can only hope.<BR/><BR/>Hampton SmithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16768178.post-33256090734804477212007-06-04T18:53:00.000-05:002007-06-04T18:53:00.000-05:00Meme Roth clearly has some type of psychological d...Meme Roth clearly has some type of psychological disorder. She is an outright bigot. How can you issue an opinion on a person’s medical condition by looking at them. Resist the Cult of the emaciated!<BR/><BR/>The Angry Belly, <A HREF="http://angrybelly.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">The Angry Belly</A>TheAngryBelly.com<BR/>"Because Fat People Need Heroes Too!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16768178.post-75916730900806638282007-05-30T10:02:00.000-05:002007-05-30T10:02:00.000-05:00Um, hello Ruben Studdard? I was just talking to a ...Um, hello Ruben Studdard? <BR/><BR/>I was just talking to a health professional who was urging me not to set my goal weight loss at 75 lbs. He clucked and said, 'You're one of the few women left in the world brave enough to wear your curves.' <BR/><BR/>Hopefully Jordin knows that so many people are rolling their eyes at Meme. I remember when I was 17 if someone even insinuated that I was overweight I would freak out, I can't imagine if someone said it on National TV.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16768178.post-72132897705139060442007-05-27T21:56:00.000-05:002007-05-27T21:56:00.000-05:00"National Action Against Obesity's mandate is to 1...<I>"National Action Against Obesity's mandate is to 1) Rid schools of Junk Food; 2) Eliminate "Fake Food" from the food supply that contributes to obesity and disease; 3) Eradicate Secondhand Obesity-- obesity handed down from one generation to the next...or across the culture; Plus) Promote exercise across all ages."</I><BR/><BR/>Those are all noble goals, and I agree with her on 1, 2, and 4 [which she labeled "plus"].<BR/><BR/>But yes, she was way out of line with that remark about looking at Jordin and seeing heart disease, diabetes, etc. Besides, evidence is piling up that diet and exercise are <A HREF="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9E02E6DB1731F937A15753C1A9669C8B63" REL="nofollow">more important than weight</A>.hipparchiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16601000402820151839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16768178.post-31063004471856011362007-05-27T14:27:00.000-05:002007-05-27T14:27:00.000-05:00That seems to be her form letter, I think somebody...That seems to be her form letter, I think somebody else in the feministe thread got it as well. Maybe this means she's getting so much email about the subject she can't possibly read it all...or maybe she's just avoiding real discussion. Who knows.Alliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11755847324476240436noreply@blogger.com