Tanya Gold's Telegraph article re obese mannequin

I think of body fat as a bodily resource we can utilise! Stored energy. But carry too much and it can be bit of a heavy burden for the body. I think it helps to emphasise the practicalities of the issue to get rid of /minimise the shaming. My body fat is mine and I invested in that energy store! When I run it gives me the energy to carry on even before breakfast! Brilliant stuff! Without energy storage facilities we would just have to eat 24/7 which is just not practical or desirable. Regarding plus size mannequins, as a previous poster said, it is important to see all types of body represented in an active healthy lifestyle. So people are not made to feel out of place doing the normal activities which are good for health and well-being.

I feel really mixed about this as well. I often do wish mannequins were more realistic, because sometimes I look at them to see how the clothes they are displaying fit, and a lot of the time when you look closely not only are they abnormally thin, they have to pin up the clothes so you have no idea how they fit. I imagine that women in all sizes would like to be able to look at the clothes and see how they actually fit.
I worry though about obesity as a health problem. It always strikes me when I look at older photos of crowds what a widespread problem it is, and I think we don't notice in part because we become used to what we see all the time.

I don't see it as making being overweight seem trendy. It's just representing the broad spectrum of bodies that are out there. I think it actually helps tackle obesity if we take some of the shame out of being overweight. It's bloody hard to go to a gym and work out if you don't feel there is gym wear out there for you. Seeing a mannequin like this is going to inspire people who are overweight to go and buy some gym gear and give it a go - a good thing surely?

If there's one thing I've learned in my many attempts to lose weight, shame and self disgust don't help. You need to love your body and want to nourish it and keep it healthy instead of wanting to punish it through starvation.

Tanya Gold has ishoos and is a wannabe professional troll who would write anything for money and infamy.

Nothing to do with feminism, but I do have a bit of a problem with "obese" models. On the one hand we've got junk food ads banned on the tube and schools making efforts to plug the healthy eating mantra etc, and then on the other there seems to be a movement to make being very overweight seem... trendy , which is just as bad as using clearly anorexic models.

Again and again on the television I've seen adverts with the "love yourself" message featuring models who are not just a bit chubby, but in some instances morbidly obese.

Funny how I've yet to see one single advert featuring a fat bloke. Where's the love for a big beer belly hanging over some swimming trunks?!

She's also factually incorrect often enough to make me question how much time she spends on actual research but she can, on occasion, be mildly amusing. Yes, Katie Hopkins is a good comparator. It's the print media equivalent of click bait.

I can't out my finger on why it tiles me so much but there is something underlying it which feels very anti women and it's really grated on me.

It’s the descriptions.

It reads like she really turned herself on writing that article.

I can't see the whole article, but it's clear that Gold has a problem. Apologies for the Fail link, but...

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1088455/In-defence-fatties--Let-eat-cake.html

Yeah shes a shitter Katie Hopkins. Shes previously written a piece for the Daily Fail 'in defence of our fatties' about how far she is. She can get in the bin and I refuse to click to read her latest piece of crap.

Tanya Gold makes a very good living from expressing her strong opinions. I've read the article myself but I'm afraid I paid it little mind because (in my view) much of her output is confected outrage meant to grab attention.