tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post2574025136244324924..comments2024-03-09T03:20:20.004-05:00Comments on Tenured Radical: And It Rhymes With Rich: New York Times Reports On Humiliating Mother Of The WeekTenured Radicalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-57615262696828375132009-06-22T09:43:16.687-05:002009-06-22T09:43:16.687-05:00Ah, MeMe. I've not been a fan of hers for a w...Ah, MeMe. I've not been a fan of hers for a while -- since she critiqued America's taste in choosing Jordan Sparks as "American Idol" when just the year before the winner had been Ruben S.. It was a *singing* contest, but MeMe wanted everyone to look at Jordan the say she did - not as a lovely girl, but as "diabetes waiting to happen." What's next? What the *hell* is next if we allow judgments about ""health"" (many scare quotes) to be a basis for blatant discrimination?envirohisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16717961999176450134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-42641084224395684022009-06-21T16:46:04.755-05:002009-06-21T16:46:04.755-05:00I think we should have a bake sale to raise funds ...I think we should have a bake sale to raise funds for MeMe's therapy. I'll bring the fudge.Sister Singerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13716551486136651718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-7106390040078360892009-06-19T08:06:08.557-05:002009-06-19T08:06:08.557-05:00No one wants to address the fuckery that is "...No one wants to address the fuckery that is "Secondhand Obesity" (trademarked, no less)? While I discount Fat Studies as a sub-discipline, that trademarked term oozes a paranoid sense of contagion that should offend people of any size.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-21479992685795068522009-06-18T20:50:20.982-05:002009-06-18T20:50:20.982-05:00Anonymous 7:43 --
Mary, please.Anonymous 7:43 --<br /><br />Mary, please.Tenured Radicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-81806944684274919122009-06-18T19:43:23.928-05:002009-06-18T19:43:23.928-05:00I'm really not interested in reading more acco...I'm really not interested in reading more accounts that shame and demonize mothers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-24087084900642654012009-06-18T16:24:23.381-05:002009-06-18T16:24:23.381-05:00Women who protest at the YMCA and call the local m...Women who protest at the YMCA and call the local media to cover it are not exactly approximating the realm of normalcy.<br /><br />That said, who wants to be normal anyway? "normal (nor-MAL): lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency." Frank Portman, King DorkMs. Ramona Narrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07206416608399382659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-76055920746580748832009-06-17T08:32:51.365-05:002009-06-17T08:32:51.365-05:00I have been fascinated by this awful person for a ...I have been fascinated by this awful person for a while. Just a tiny local quibble-- Upper Manhattan comprises Washington Heights and Inwood, which are both diverse, middle-class neighborhoods at the northern end of the island. MeMe Roth lives on the prestigious Upper West Side, which is about 100 blocks (5 miles) south of Upper Manhattan, and extremely gentrified.Hypatianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-38129693770830146502009-06-17T08:22:34.228-05:002009-06-17T08:22:34.228-05:00Oh, for pity's sake. Kids shouldn't be eat...Oh, for pity's sake. Kids shouldn't be eating tons of sweets every day, but a cupcake for a friend's birthday or a popsicle on a hot day--why deny children these simple joys?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-32990936699210531012009-06-17T03:56:51.303-05:002009-06-17T03:56:51.303-05:00You have to wonder what will damage MeMe's poo...You have to wonder what will damage MeMe's poor children more, eating the random cupcake, or having your mother humiliate you in public!Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-38335394248620696562009-06-16T18:56:32.691-05:002009-06-16T18:56:32.691-05:00Ooh I had a mother like MeMe, minus the public cru...Ooh I had a mother like MeMe, minus the public crusading. Everything I ate was highly monitored. Before I was old enough to be sneaky, she would confiscate candy I brought home from school or church and dole it out in tiny amounts. Dessert could be as little as two M&Ms. When I went to sleepaway summer camp, she wouldn't give me money for candy and would tell the camp staff that I could only purchase drinks. Nothing's so cruel as being forced to spend snack time watching everybody else eat candy. Where did this all lead? By the time I was 12, I was getting the sugar I craved (somehow I'd developed a sweet tooth) by literally eating cups and cups of raw sugar in my room, as well as anything sweet I could get my hands on, including vitamins, which I shouldn't have been eating by the double handful. Where am I now? Overweight. My mother, if she were alive, would be disgusted.<br /><br />People like MeMe and my mother start off with the right idea: children shouldn't be binging everyday on bags of candy, cookies, chips, and soda while watching hours of television. But isn't it more important to teach your children how to manage their cravings so that when they are adults in control of everything they eat they know how to make the right choices? Instead, my mother ensured that the second I had the chance to make my own food choices, I was going to run straight for the candy aisle. (And in case anybody thinks this was just while I was a small child, it wasn't. My mother's insane worry over what I ate continued all through high school. By then, of course, I'd found elaborate ways to sneak the food I'd wanted. Not exactly a model of healthy eating.) Let's hope for MeMe's children's sake that they're lucky and avoid a similar situation. I'm not holding my breath.<br /><br />Btw, I read a profile of MeMe recently in the Guardian in which the interviewer started asking questions about MeMe's diet. MeMe breezily claimed she never dieted. Upon further questioning, it became clear MeMe hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch that day.<br /><br />Here's the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/may/24/meme-roth-obesity-nutritionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-67588543764752958192009-06-16T18:02:34.462-05:002009-06-16T18:02:34.462-05:00I agree with MeMe Roth, actually. I just don't...I agree with MeMe Roth, actually. I just don't have the guts to be as controlling and outspoken as she is, for fear of garnering this kind of attention. American kid culture involves eating tons of crap, and it's addictive. We give them the least healthy food and start their bad habits off right away. Obesity is indeed a very serious problem in this nation. MeMe has some control issues and loses perspective sometimes. Moms who stick with their convictions, whatever they may be, routinely pilloried by the media. It's MeMe's turn this time.Lauren D. McKinneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09492156665800981450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-39966025420772339162009-06-16T17:57:37.627-05:002009-06-16T17:57:37.627-05:00True dat.True dat.Tenured Radicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-83659164720944088452009-06-16T17:55:11.338-05:002009-06-16T17:55:11.338-05:00A quibble re "the destructive influence of th...A quibble re "the destructive influence of the sugar industry" and "sugar dumping": It would be more accurate to say "corn industry" and "corn dumping." Those rotten teeth you saw in Mexico came from high-fructose syrup, made from U.S.-subsidized transgenic corn. Pepsi and Snapple have new versions out recently, advertised as having "real sugar"--it's sort of a boutique ingredient now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com