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I don't know why I am shaking with rage ...

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EveHarrington · 14/06/2011 01:09

An acquaintance/future colleague of mine on a certain social networking site is always making "fat" jokes Hmm. As we are not in the least bit close, I tend to turn a blind eye to it when she makes multiple posts about shows on TV such as "Embarrassing Fat Bodies" et al.

However, just a few minutes ago (yes, I'm still up!), she posted a new album called something along the lines of "The Unfortunates (a work in progress)". It appears to be random people out and about, on public transport, in public places that are on the bigger side and/or are dressed (in a way she would probably see as) "unfashionably".

I know that if you are in a public place, your picture can be legally taken. What I don't understand is how and why she would choose to do something like this and make fun of unsuspecting people just going about their day.

I've posted a comment asking her to please say she isn't going around taking pictures of unsuspecting strangers. It may be that I've got the wrong end of the stick, but I don't think I have Sad I have no idea why it's made me so upset and close to tears! And no, it's not related to my size (I'm on the small side, both height and weight-wise). It just seems like a form of cruel bullying on a public level that one wouldn't expect from what is supposed to be a grown educated woman (albeit one in her early twenties).

Please tell me to mind my own business and that I'm being unreasonable (which I may be, seeing as it's that time of the month and I'm stressed out about a whole bunch of unrelated stuff).

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LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 14/06/2011 08:35

Well done, OP. She sounds very thoughtless and perhaps someone in her circle has done this and she's picked up the baton on her FB circle. Some people are really like sheep.

We've got an incredibly invasive media culture, coupled with TV programmes that celebrate and ridicule what the brainless consider 'oddities' and some people don't know where the 'brakes' should be.

StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 14/06/2011 08:46

Well - I am very overweight, and I would be horrified and devastated to find my picture being used like that. But I am ashamed to say that I have not challenged it when I have seen pictures of very fat people posted on websites I belong to, for people to laugh at. You've put me to shame, Eve.

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