[edtf]

LINK: http://culture.viralnova.com/haley-morris-calfiero/

Photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero has long been aware of peoples' cruelty towards her based on her size. Living in a society that's obsessed with thinness, life can be hard for larger people, especially women. Morris-Cafiero, however, decided to turn this meanspirited habit into art, and hopefully make people more aware of their judgmental attitudes.

The project became a photo series called Wait Watchers, where Morris-Cafiero photographs herself in public settings, where people, who don't realize they're on camera, can be seen in the background laughing at her or giving her strange looks. And no, she's not doing anything strange, nor is she very obvious about taking the photo. The photos are taken with a self-timing camera, and Morris-Cafiero, once the shot is set up, goes about a normal activity like talking on the phone or seeming to wait for someone. Behind her, you can usually see a passerby giving her the side-eye.

^Is there no way to fight back? Doesn't the obese contribution to global warming, increased burden of healthcare due to heart disease and diabetes matter to her?

[Badamson]

(11-16-2014 02:39 AM)edtf Wrote:  

LINK: http://culture.viralnova.com/haley-morris-calfiero/

Photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero has long been aware of peoples' cruelty towards her based on her size. Living in a society that's obsessed with thinness, life can be hard for larger people, especially women. Morris-Cafiero, however, decided to turn this meanspirited habit into art, and hopefully make people more aware of their judgmental attitudes.

The project became a photo series called Wait Watchers, where Morris-Cafiero photographs herself in public settings, where people, who don't realize they're on camera, can be seen in the background laughing at her or giving her strange looks. And no, she's not doing anything strange, nor is she very obvious about taking the photo. The photos are taken with a self-timing camera, and Morris-Cafiero, once the shot is set up, goes about a normal activity like talking on the phone or seeming to wait for someone. Behind her, you can usually see a passerby giving her the side-eye.

^Is there no way to fight back? Doesn't the obese contribution to global warming, increased burden of healthcare due to heart disease and diabetes matter to her?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is yet another "fake" thing that's going viral, and that at least some of these people were in on the project, given that their faces are all shown.

I could be wrong, but it still doesn't matter because:

1. We have no way to know if the people looking at her are reacting to her fatness or just the fact that she's wearing uncoordinated bright outfits and making idiotic poses calling attention to herself in the middle of foot traffic.

2. She's morbidly obese, so there's nothing unhealthy or unnatural about ordinary people being grossed out by her when they walk by.

[kazz]

Fuck me, she has legs like a front row forward

[ABCDEFGH]

If those are the most incriminating pictures she could find then it is a nonstory. Some of these people don't even appear to look at her at all. And being looked at isn't bad in itself, it happens to everyone.

The only "evidence" of questionable behaviour here is the photo of the police guy.

[Snowplow]

This one is the best.

[RawGod]

(11-16-2014 03:13 AM)ABCDEFGH Wrote:  

If those are the most incriminating pictures she could find then it is a nonstory. Some of these people don't even appear to look at her at all. And being looked at isn't bad in itself, it happens to everyone.

The only "evidence" of questionable behaviour here is the photo of the police guy.

Exactly. Most of these people aren't even looking at her.

   

But hey, support her Kickstarter! She's a woman and needs attention!

[iop890]

WB 3 out of 4 of these. Can you guess the WNB?


Moral dilemma: Would you have a 5-way with everyone in this pic?


Edit: @ABCDEFGH and Rawgod. Yea, I was thinking that too, most of these people just seem to be looking in her general direction.
She's going to need to get a lot fatter if she wants to stand out in the west, I wouldn't give her a second glance around here.

[ABCDEFGH]

She probably saw the success of those videos of people walking around NYC for 10 hours and wanted to cash in. That would be too much exercise of course, so she decided to just stand /sit around instead.

[Soberane]

My sister had some friend from Czech Republic couples of years ago, they did in fact took many pictures of fat people just like the guy below:



Americans used to be the epitome of beauty, class, and elegance, Marilyn Monroe, Steve Maqueen, Sinatra.

The whole world was trying to be as American as they could, USA used to have shame about how the world see it.

Now you have shit like fat shaming, slut shaming, and worst yet, USA politics and feminazi try to export those values to the rest of the world.

[LouEvilSlugger]

(11-16-2014 12:02 PM)Soberane Wrote:  

Americans used to be the epitome of beauty, class, and elegance, Marilyn Monroe, Steve Maqueen, Sinatra.

[Mike5055]

Maybe they're looking at her because she's dressed and acting like a weirdo?

She's hardly the fattest person walking around.

[Only One Man]

I could have sworn something almost exactly like this with the exact same landwhale hit the internet like six months ago.

[Sonsowey]

Most Americans just have no idea how fucked up they are...

[Days of Broken Arrows]

This is a dupe thread. Someone here also determined that most of the people weren't even laughing at her in those pics -- they were smiling for other photos or at an inside joke (see the pics above).

It was also mentioned the pics looked Photoshopped to make it appear as if people were mocking her (the cops shot looks altered to me).

The fact is, no one pays attention to fat women. So this is the way they get it. Don't give it to them.

[aSimpNamedBrokeback]

This should be called fashion shaming. When you do a google image search you can see its mostly other women looking at her stupid outfits.

[Dusty]

If I passed by her on the street I would not give her funny looks. Thats because I wouldn't even notice she exists.

[sp_johnnyutah]

(11-16-2014 12:21 PM)Mike5055 Wrote:  

Maybe they're looking at her because she's dressed and acting like a weirdo?

She's hardly the fattest person walking around.

And carrying around a fucking flag-sized paper map and staring at it on a busy city street.

But like someone said above, I'd give this stunt 4:1 odds of being photoshopped.

[monster]

Misleading topic title - this isn't "fat shaming" this is "pro fat"

But it raises the interesting point that Pro Fat gets a lot of credence and voice on the internet but in real life people are still overwhelmingly disgusted by it. It's the vocal minority online that ruins it for the rest of us.

[Sturmgeist]

Asian girl in middle WB.



WB all three asian girls.

(11-16-2014 01:14 PM)Dusty Wrote:  

If I passed by her on the street I would not give her funny looks. Thats because I wouldn't even notice she exists.

I'd noticed she exists, because she's so fucking wide you couldn't pass her on bus or subway car.

[Pontifex Maximus]

(11-16-2014 03:32 AM)iop890 Wrote:  



WB 3 out of 4 of these. Can you guess the WNB?


Moral dilemma: Would you have a 5-way with everyone in this pic?


Edit: @ABCDEFGH and Rawgod. Yea, I was thinking that too, most of these people just seem to be looking in her general direction.
She's going to need to get a lot fatter if she wants to stand out in the west, I wouldn't give her a second glance around here.

Middle Asian girl looks underage. Beware of jailbait.

I absolutely hate fat calves. They says fit people can touch their toes. Hambeasts do it everyday with their leg fat.

[enderilluminatus]

Her legs look like pillars of flesh.

[DrewP]

(11-16-2014 02:39 AM)edtf Wrote:  

Photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero has long been aware of peoples' cruelty towards her based on her size. Living in a society that's obsessed with thinness, life can be hard for larger people, especially women. Morris-Cafiero, however, decided to turn this meanspirited habit into art, and hopefully make people more aware of their judgmental attitudes.

Geez, if you went by these fat acceptance advocates you'd think the U.S. was overrun with morbid anorexics and it was a challenge to find a girl with a little meat on her.

I just looked it up. 2% of American adults are considered underweight, while 69% are overweight. 36% are obese and 6% are "extremely obese."

This is a society "obsessed with thinness?" Do people ever stop and think how fucking insane that is? What if you had a school district where 33% of pupils were shitty C and D students, and another 36% were flunking classes left and right, with 6% dropping out of high school on their 16th birthday; however, 2% of students might be overworking themselves a bit. Would you say that school district is "obsessed with academic achievement?"

[runsonmagic]

If this we're a comedy project, they'd totally have my 5$. Hilarious.