To be outraged 2008 supersize vs skinny ?

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Ok so I just randomly came across this on prime video. I used to watch this show when I was at uni and had lots of free time .

It is vile and fat shaming , Gillian McKeith just went round a town centre feeling women's bottoms , staring at them , judging them telling one woman it was like dough! Looking horrified . Then got a load of women into a building and got them to take their knickers off so she could judge them! Calling them the flabby bottom parade !

What really stood out for me was she did not stop any men in the town centre and no men in the take your knickers off stage !

Did anyone watch this and AIBU to think this was all in very bad taste ?

I saw this episode recently and thought everyone wants a big bum now!!

I've only seen the ones with Dr Jessen. Some of the super skinny diets were eye opening!

@BogRollBOGOF

What about "Honey we're killing the kids" which barely made it past BBC3 in 2004 ish

That was blatantly classist. They showed 'projections' of the children's appearance.

If you continued how you were, your children would grow up to look like stereotypical skin heads and stained t-shirt wearing, braless single mothers, but if you did what they said, they'd all look like rugby playing, yoga loving social workers and doctors. And no male would ever suffer male pattern baldness.

Wasn't it the gay doctor who does embarrassing bodies?

NoOneOwnsTheRainbow Nice

@2021optimist

Really, this is the best thing you can find to feel outraged about at the mo?

God will people stop doing that patronising flower thing, it just makes you seem like a twat.

It's a relief to some of us to think about something that isn't Covid so this sort of thread is fine. Why did you click on it if you want to focus on more serious things?

@underneaththeash it wasn't just the fact shaming , the " skinny " lady was forced to view photos of her " skinny" hands and told she had no bum by doctor on there and then told she could make herself fertile ... the irony in all of this was she was recently told she was lactose intolerant so clearly not input from a dietician not to be made to feel she is doing this all to herself and to be forced to see how hideous her body is .

@WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo

I've only seen the ones with Dr Jessen. Some of the super skinny diets were eye opening!

Ah cross posted. I like this programme actually. I don't care if it offends some people. I found Gok Wan feeling up women's tits far more offensive. if you want a laugh, watch the old Trinny and Susannah shows. They'd never get away with that these days.

@underneaththeash fat shaming rather

This really pushed my anorexic buttons back in the day (fully recovered now). If I’m thinking of the right show, I think they did one series where they showed some people with eating disorders too? I remember watching them in a restaurant panicking about whether oil was used in their food, and agreeing with everything they said- and then wondering if I had an ‘actual’ problem, too. So ultimately it did push me towards help. But it was a really toxic show.

@underneaththeash make herself infertile rather ..

I went through a phase of watching old episodes of this on YouTube OP. It's entertaining in a way but terrible at the same time. The scenes where they make supersize person swap diets with super skinny and watch each other eat are the worst. Most of the skinny people have eating disorders or are borderline but that is barely acknowledged. I think the most bad taste part of the whole shebang is when they fly the supersizer over to Texas and make them hang out with a morbidly obese American person. Then Dr Christian SURPRISES them in a restaurant that only serves giant buckets of ice cream sprinkled with jelly beans or something. Just so he can shame them about what they're eating in public. It's sort of brilliant in its cringeworthy awfulness IMO.

I think we’re not allowed to talk about her on here. Or was that someone else?

That was true of the Guardian Talk boards back in the day.

Fat shaming is not a thing.

@PatchworkElmer

This really pushed my anorexic buttons back in the day (fully recovered now). If I’m thinking of the right show, I think they did one series where they showed some people with eating disorders too? I remember watching them in a restaurant panicking about whether oil was used in their food, and agreeing with everything they said- and then wondering if I had an ‘actual’ problem, too. So ultimately it did push me towards help. But it was a really toxic show.

Oh yes there was a segment in the middle. I'd say this part was more sensitively handled by the programme in many ways. The presenter is a recovering anorexic and is now a journalist and she was good. But watching it on YouTube as I was, the comments section is full of people with eating disorders (often openly). I think it was broadcast before the days of "trigger warnings" etc...

hahaha her constant pretending to faint thing. What the fuck was that all about?

@katienana

Didn't she used to get people to shit in a box then act outrage when it smelt bad?

She did what, now?

Holy shit didnt she say she was pregnant as well? or did i imagine that?

Super size vs super skinny was a guilty pleasure. It was so awkward when they had to eat each other's meals in front of each other. Skinny person complaining how full and sick they feel. Larger person drooling over favourite meal and feeling started on skinny person diet

@Yoshinori

Fat shaming is not a thing.

I beg to differ.

My husband just referred to Gillian McKeith as, 'the shit woman' as she was obsesses with peoples' poo.

I thought she was harsh and judgy. Yeah she's a self styled doctor and her American lawyer husband backs up her claims.

I liked the show where an overweight person had to eat a slim person's diet for a week and vice versa. I think it was an Australian show. It was very good.

It was interesting one time when a slim person who didn't like fish forced it down because that was the brief but an overweight person wouldn't do likewise with food they didn't care for.

That show was better than anything McKeith was up to.

I also said, of her show, if you put a week's worth of food on the table in one go, it would look like a buffet regardless.

You are what you eat remarked Dara O'Briain of Gillian McKeith. When you must have swallowed a shrew ! Yep, that summed it up IMO.

WhatWouldPhyllisCraneDo Sat 09-Jan-21 21:09:54
Yoshinori

Fat shaming is not a thing.

I beg to differ.
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You're right. And the irony of this is that Yoshinori goes from thread to thread fat shaming people. One of THOSE posters.

The 'skinny' diets were often terrible. I haven't seen it for years, but I remember things like a Mars Bar for breakfast, then nothing else until the evening when they'd have a couple of slices of toast.

There was one where Mr Superskinny drank about 8 cans of lager a day and consumed very little else - they replicated this by giving the Supersize person orange juice instead.

Then, the skinny person would be confronted at breakfast with a fry-up, eight croissants and a bowl of coco-pops. They'd eat one sausage and be full for the rest of the day.

It wasn't a programme that taught much about healthy eating.

"I liked the show where an overweight person had to eat a slim person's diet for a week and vice versa. I think it was an Australian show. It was very good."

That was this programme! I thought it did the trick in the sense that the large people realised nothing would happen to them if they only had a vodka for dinner just the once and the superskinnies learned that nothing would happen if they had a massive portion of fish and chips.