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to think that this is irresponsible reporting from the BBC

29 replies

user546425732 · 07/07/2018 13:04

A Chinese theme park has offered free entry to heavier women according to the BBC with this headline:

"Chinese park grants free entry to heavier women"

which was followed by this:

"A theme park in northern China offered free entry tickets this week to women if they weighed over nine and a half stone (61.8kg), it's reported."

9 1/2 stone?! Heavier women?!

My DD's friend is anorexic and she'd see this as proof that she was overweight before she became anorexic and dropped well below 9 1/2 stone even though it was an appropriate weight for her height.

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CatONineTails · 07/07/2018 13:05

By Chinese averages they are heavier women though!

SingitJane · 07/07/2018 13:08

I was around 9.5 stones when I went to an Asian country. I looked fucking massive compared to most of the locals and I struggled to buy clothes!

SingitJane · 07/07/2018 13:09

Just Googled and average weight for a woman in China is 57.3 kilos.

arranfan · 07/07/2018 13:10

Sadly, the typical course of anorexia means that your friend would see anything as confirming her belief that she's too large and would ignore any evidence that contradicted this.

I'm so sorry that your friend is living with this wretched disease and for the impact on those that love and care for her.

Moonkissedlegs · 07/07/2018 13:11

Nope. 9 and a half stone is definitely 'heavy' in China. Women over that weight are heavier over there!

OohMavis · 07/07/2018 13:11

Chinese women are smaller than European women. Like physically more petite.

More than anything else it's a really weird promotion Confused why would they run it?

reallybadidea · 07/07/2018 13:11

61.8kg is more than 9 1/2 stones! Someone at the BBC can't do decimals I think.

InspectorIkmen · 07/07/2018 13:12

You think the BBC shouldn’t report a story in case it makes someone . . . Nope - can’t get my head round this at all. Where would you draw the line then? Someone is always going to get upset about something.

Moonkissedlegs · 07/07/2018 13:13

61.8kg is more than 9 1/2 stones! Someone at the BBC can't do decimals I think.

Huh? It's exactly 9 1/2 stone! I think you might be getting decimals confused!

OohMavis · 07/07/2018 13:13

Sorry didn't answer your AIBU. Yes you are, it's not really irresponsible, they're just reporting on something that happened. Probably because it was so weird.

SilverySurfer · 07/07/2018 13:14

If it was untrue then it would be irresponsible reporting but it's true so it's not. Blame the Chinese theme park owners, not the BBC.

Alexandrite · 07/07/2018 13:15

I read the other day that it's rare in china for people to eat between meals

araiwa · 07/07/2018 13:18

Seriously??

Jeezy creezy

Iamagreyhoundhearmeroar · 07/07/2018 13:22

9 and a half stone is heavier than average for Chinese women, who are generally very petite. Nobody is suggesting it would be the same for English women, try not to be so insular, maybe?
There is life outside Brexit Island.

reallybadidea · 07/07/2018 13:23

Huh? It's exactly 9 1/2 stone! I think you might be getting decimals confused!

61.8kg is 136 pounds or 9.7 stone ie 9 stone 10lbs.

Mummyoflittledragon · 07/07/2018 13:23

If the average weight of a Chinese woman is 57.3kg it’s disgusting to single out women a few kilos over.

reallybadidea · 07/07/2018 13:25

They're not singling them out in a bad way. Have you read the article?

AlexaAmbidextra · 07/07/2018 13:26

But far eastern women are generally far smaller than us. My partner brought me home a beautiful silk dressing gown from a business trip to Hong Kong and nervously apologised as the label said large. I was 8 st at the time and it fitted perfectly. 😄

Moonkissedlegs · 07/07/2018 13:26

61.8kg is 136 pounds or 9.7 stone ie 9 stone 10lbs

Ahhhhhhh, I see! 😂 Sorry!

It wasn't me at the BBC by the way!

bonfireheart · 07/07/2018 13:27

It's not the BBC at fault. Also what about the men do they get free entry too?

Roomba · 07/07/2018 13:27

My ex FIL brought me a dress back from China. I weighed 7.5 stone at the time and the dress was labeled 'XL' - I couldn't even zip it up!

Firesuit · 07/07/2018 13:28

DD has a (ethnically) chinese tutor who I've never thought of as particularly short or thin. (She maybe is short and thin by UK standards, but not in a noticeable way, she looks normal and healthy.) She weighs just over 6 stone.

(She was comparing weight with 8-year-old DD, who is just over 5 stone and just tall enough to not be legally required to use a car seat.)

Zruda · 07/07/2018 13:29

Yet another example of non-news from the useless BBC. When you think of what they could be reporting about, but ignore. It's pathetic.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 07/07/2018 13:29

I saw that, and didn't think much of it tbh (I also thought it was Korea, but I can't find the article now). It was one of those promotional things to do with what the concubines were like, they were quite heavy because at the time only the rich could afford to eat enough to be fat. Presumably they were also shorter than the current population, so it would have been quite a chubby look.

An anorexic person could well take this as confirmation that she should be thinner, but often their mindset is such that they can use all sorts of innocuous fact to support their behaviour. You can't have the whole world altering their behaviour to second-guess how it might appear to an anorexic person.

TornFromTheInside · 07/07/2018 13:47

People are at the BBC are mentally overweight if they have two brain cells.