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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming
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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

E-mail stirs 'fat shaming' controversy at Bryn Mawr College

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Sometimes you just can't win for losing.
Bryn Mawr College students are planning a demonstration next week to protest what some described as an insensitive e-mail sent to women with "elevated BMIs" - that is, a little overweight.

The e-mail was an invitation to participate in a free, individualized fitness program.

The list of 100 recipients was generated from records compiled by the college's health care center.

"There were truly good intentions behind this," said Bryn Mawr spokesman Matt Gray. "It's a program that includes individual counseling, nutritional advice, and group support."


The program, launched in October, has had 12 students go through it. Outside of one critical blog post in October, no one complained, Gray said.

This time, the invitations hit a nerve.

Rudrani Sarma, a pre-law junior from Colorado who is not obese, received one of those invitations and said she was mortified.

"It felt awful to be targeted like that," she said.

In a post on her Facebook page, she called the invitation "problematic," "hurtful," and "just plain stupid."

"You're telling students that it's more important to lose weight than to be healthy. You're telling students that you discriminate based on weight by compiling a list of 'fat' students," she wrote.

Sarma ended it with "How dare you, Bryn Mawr?"

Sarma's post went viral. It collected dozens of comments. She filed a complaint with the dean's office. On Monday, she received an apology from the health center, which told Sarma her name had been included on the list because a nurse entered her height incorrectly.

The apology came too late to quell interest in Sarma's story.

The Phoenix, the student newspaper at nearby Swarthmore College, noticed Sarma's Facebook post and published a 1,200-word story Thursday about the perceived affront. Buzzfeed, the website specializing in viral news, picked up the story Thursday.

Reached by phone, Sarma said she was surprised by the controversy she had stirred up.

"A lot of people were angry, and when that happens, it's kind of like wildfire," she said. "Body policing and fat shaming are both involved here, and it's important to have a discussion about how we want to talk about our bodies."

George Loewenstein, a professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University who has studied behavioral economics and obesity, said the targeted e-mail was "probably a mistake."

"It's selecting one arbitrary group," he said, "and saying, 'We've identified you as being in need of change.' "

On the other hand, he said, the program itself appeared to be well-designed, given that it includes dietary and exercise components.

"It could be that some people will take it up, and it could benefit them," Loewenstein said.

There is scant research showing that schools, companies, and other institutions are able to change behavior with weight-loss programs and incentives, as such a finding would require a randomized study that no employer or school is likely to conduct, he said. Still, such programs could be helpful for some people, he said.

Gray said the health center is rethinking how it will invite students to participate in the future.

"One of the things we'll look at is wording," he said. "We'll figure out something so this doesn't happen again."

So basically a College actually sat around and tried to figure the best way to help some of the "arger" students lose weight. And they sat around painstakingly for months on end before come up with, what they thought, a program that was non aggressive but suggestive in the hope it would help someone who actually needed it. A girl, who probably isn't even meant to be on the list, goes ape shit at the idea that someone would SUGGEST that she is not this perfect beautiful American goddess.

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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Of course they did.

Rudrani Sarma sounds Indian...and it is. The Sarma surname is Brahmin.
Well well well, Matt Forney is vindicated again.
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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

I find it amazing that one outraged American girl can make the local news for something as trivial as this.

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Bryn Mawr College students are planning a demonstration next week to protest what some described as an insensitive e-mail sent to women with "elevated BMIs" - that is, a little overweight.

I consider them lucky to have been called "women with elevated BMIs" instead of calling them by their proper scientific name "fattie mcfat fat whales"

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"It felt awful to be targeted like that," she said.

In a post on her Facebook page, she called the invitation "problematic," "hurtful," and "just plain stupid."

"You're telling students that it's more important to lose weight than to be healthy. You're telling students that you discriminate based on weight by compiling a list of 'fat' students," she wrote.
Sarma ended it with "How dare you, Bryn Mawr?"

Yes, how dare you, Bryn Mawr, care about your student's weights and bodies, knowing full well that fat people die sooner, are more depressed, eat (heh) more tax dollars because of healthcare, and generally are a walking public eye sore.

Not surprising that a liberal bastion like Bryn Mawr was quick to issue an apology with their tails between their legs, admitting human error as the reason she was included in the program:

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On Monday, she received an apology from the health center, which told Sarma her name had been included on the list because a nurse entered her height incorrectly.

At this point, they should have just gone for broke. You know she's going to be pissed no matter what, so at least have some fun with it.

Bryn Mawr's new formal public statement:
"Yes, the student was included due to a nurse having entered her height incorrectly during a checkup. However, after viewing a few facebook pictures of her, we will stay the course and ask that she participate in the program. Afterall, she could stand to lose a few pounds."

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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

I guess the school would have been smarter and sent a blanket email. Individually addressed and then whoever took the hint would get the service. Ya she sounds like a count but the school could have dodged a bullet.

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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

This is a glimpse into the future.

We are still living in a country where 1/3 people are not overweight, and most adults remember only ten or twenty years ago obesity was much less common. Many people, even obese people, do understand that obesity is unhealthy, ugly, and not the norm for humans.

Imagine 50 years from not where no one has a living memory of a time when less than 60% of the population was overweight? This is part of what it will look like.
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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Just let them be fat. Who cares? In the bar scene all bets are off and fatties yield no power. They can cry all they want when they get no male attention. Nobody will care.

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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Aren't death rate related to obesity thankfully pretty high? And a lot of them won't be able to marry and have kids. So unless foods continue to get even unhealthier than it already is - and we should at least be hitting rock bottom soon if we haven't already - they'll at best be replaced by the current crop of fat kids.
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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Bryn Mawr should have seen it coming a mile away. I guess-surprise!-their health staff aren't as infected by HAES as the rest of the campus is. They can probably see all the miserable unhealthy fatties lumbering around campus while the thin ones get all the attention. This is what happens when you try to help people who are committed to misery.

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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Quote: (01-31-2015 02:21 AM)PhilE Wrote:  

"Body policing and fat shaming are both involved here, and it's important to have a discussion about how we want to talk about our bodies."

Even if you don't like what you hear?

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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Poor strategy on the college's part.

When I was a personal trainer at a gym, I used to walk up and down the cardio machines and would only target the out of shape people to talk to, offering an intro free training session. I'd see the fit people, smile and move on.

My manager was a really sharp red-pill sales guy. He noticed what I was doing and told me not to pick and choose people, but talk to EVERYONE. He said, if people saw I was only talking to out of shape people, and then I talked to them, they would feel bad. Also, sometimes people that looked in-shape actually were receptive to hiring a trainer.

Carpet-bombing approach is 10x better.
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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

It never ceases to amaze me how despite the billions spent on medical care, the medical establishment has yet to evolve beyond the use of BMI for individual assessments, which has as much scientific legitimacy as bloodletting and astrology. It would also undercut the case of fat people claiming to be secretly muscular.

If nurses can be trained to draw blood competently, they can surely be trained to measure body fat with $5 plastic calipers.
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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

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Sarma ended it with "How dare you, Bryn Mawr?"

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Seriously though, fuck these prissy hams. They want to get all angry when someone offers to help them change their unhealthy lifestyle for free, yet I guarantee you girls like these will be the first to get all mad and rant about equal rights and shit when a man rejects their fugly ass. Fuck 'em, let them become the human beanbag that they so desire.
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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

I can't understand how people get 'offended' over stuff like this. Everything's offensive nowadays it seems.
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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Quote: (01-31-2015 02:26 AM)GeroMeroHero Wrote:  

Of course they did.

Rudrani Sarma sounds Indian...and it is. The Sarma surname is Brahmin.
Well well well, Matt Forney is vindicated again.

Most Indian women are fat by the time they reach late 20's. As a culture, they really do let themselves go, almost as bad as black women in general, or even worse. Indian women are also some of the biggest drama queens and crybabies. Avoid them whenever possible. Source: Dating too many of them.

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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Quote: (01-31-2015 03:57 PM)Checkmat Wrote:  

Poor strategy on the college's part.

When I was a personal trainer at a gym, I used to walk up and down the cardio machines and would only target the out of shape people to talk to, offering an intro free training session. I'd see the fit people, smile and move on.

My manager was a really sharp red-pill sales guy. He noticed what I was doing and told me not to pick and choose people, but talk to EVERYONE. He said, if people saw I was only talking to out of shape people, and then I talked to them, they would feel bad. Also, sometimes people that looked in-shape actually were receptive to hiring a trainer.

Carpet-bombing approach is 10x better.

Yup - that was a sure way that it would back-fire. They could have equally started out claiming that their fitness expert evaluated their fitness level and elevated body-fat via a look at their pictures. "Jake thought that you look fat in your pic."

Sending it out to everyone would have saved them the trouble. Never mind that they are right regarding their advice.

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The list of 100 recipients was generated from records compiled by the college's health care center.

That in itself is already a bit problematic in my opinion.

What next? Are they gonna data-mine those guys who had above average STD infections and send them invitations to safe sex or rape sensitivity trainings?

Are they gonna force some students to go to AA due to some problematic liver values?

I say let the fatties roll over them - they shall feel the wrath of the stampeding SJW-fatties for once.
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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Quote: (01-31-2015 02:26 AM)GeroMeroHero Wrote:  

Of course they did.

Rudrani Sarma sounds Indian...and it is. The Sarma surname is Brahmin.
Well well well, Matt Forney is vindicated again.

The craziest and most self righteous bitches are the feminist converts from the subcontinent or the middle east. They take their shitty identity formed from a repressed culture/religion and redirect that fanaticism towards SJW causes instead.
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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Quote: (01-31-2015 04:18 PM)Goldhawkstar Wrote:  

Seriously though, fuck these prissy hams. They want to get all angry when someone offers to help them change their unhealthy lifestyle for free, yet I guarantee you girls like these will be the first to get all mad and rant about equal rights and shit when a man rejects their fugly ass. Fuck 'em, let them become the human beanbag that they so desire.

It hurts the dating market though. If more women get fat, and concurrently men are shamed for refusing to date them (and instead going abroad for example) than it is society's problem, not just an individual problem.
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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Fatties gonna fat.





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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Every time I read about these special little snowflakes, I envision them being publicly flogged. It calms the anger...

Public flogging should be a thing again.

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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Rudrani Sarma, yep she's a fatty

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She's probably only 20 years old, but just look at those fat shoulders. Unless she takes active steps to improve her health, she will be a full blown fatty by the time she is 25. One day she'll be obese and single and think back to that email she got and think "I should have just taken them up on the offer."

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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Why make so much trouble? I imagine it's for attention. Really an email to the department explaining that you found it insensitive, and suggesting they consider a different approach is all that was needed. Even if I agreed with her, I'd feel terrible about having caused such a fuss for all involved.
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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

She's steadily gained weight in the past 7 months.

It goes July 2014(eating vegetables), october 2014 (coffee shop), to semi Whale in January(with crazy photoshopped cat lady to boot). No wonder she was vexed by the email. Shame them, Shame them all.

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College sends email suggesting healthy lifestyle Student calls it Fat Shaming

Bryn Mawr fucked up. The offensive action here was violating the students' privacy by pulling data from health records for an unsolicited, targeted email. The bullshit about "fat shaming" and "body policing" is just this drama queen missing the point of her own complaint.
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