Joan Rivers commenting on Lena Dunham's weight- can we stop?
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Anonymous
| I think we all get that Lena Dunham isn't a size 0, or 2 or 4... Was watching fashion police last night and the panel was commenting on Lena Dunham's dress. Which of course brought up her weight. Joan made a reference to her dress distracting from her 'sausage fingers' at one point. I'm not saying that this show isn't intended to be entertaining but enough is enough. Lena Dunham is not FAT. From what I see day to day, she's normal. Comments like this make me sad. Also, hasn't Kelly Osbourne struggled with her weight publicly? I feel like if anyone shouldn't be snickering at someone's weight it's her. I just felt like it was all terribly mean spirited. It touches on an issue (our society's obsession of thin=pretty, and fat=ugly) that has nothing to do with fashion itself. And sets such a bad example for younger girls. |
Anonymous
| Agreed, which is why I don't watch Fashion Police. Also, see the DCUM thread about Giuliana Rancic's shrinking frame. |
Anonymous
| OP here: I should also mention that I cannot stand Guiliana's immoveable bob. |
Anonymous
I like her bob a lot.... |
Anonymous
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Why OP? That's what Joan is known for, that is why Fashion Police exists. Lena IS FAT and she's on TV which means that she is knowingly putting herself on display where she must be aware that she will be criticized for her looks. I guess its ok for you to criticize Rancic in the same breath though....even though it was her hair and not her weight. I guess that makes it ok.
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Anonymous
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This actress knew she was putting herself in the public eye and in facts embraces her size on TV.
Look, being fat is bad. Being thin is good. Being fat = unattractive. Thin IS pretty and desirable. No amount of pouting over that or indignance about comments made on a stupid TV show will change those facts. |
Anonymous
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As someone who has been overweight and was really tortured by it, and then thin, and now overweight again, I am really disappointed in Kelly Osborne. She isn't a teenager anymore, so I can't keep giving her a free pass for her cruel remarks about others. I know when she first lost weight, she relished in the thought that she could stick it to some other young Hollywood types who had been cruel to her as they grew up together and since gotten a little heavy while she dropped the pounds. I could understand the impulse to do so that was surely arising from a place of deep hurt. Now, though, she has gone too far.
Also, how is she going to feel when she gains that weight back and the tables are re-turned? Of course I hope it doesn't happen, but I wouldn't be surprised. Folks who (like me) were heavy their whole lives and fight to get the weight off and then maintain it are so vulnerable to it coming back (post partum, traumatic life events, metabolism slows even more, what have you). She could be doing something great to get the message out that all women are beautiful. She is missing a great opportunity. |
Anonymous
| The OP should also stop reading DCUM. This forum is full of hateful comments about women from weight to HAIRSTYLE to facial features, to clothes, to everything else you can criticize about another person. |
Anonymous
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Joan Rivers has been making fun of people, and herself, for 50+ years. It's why she has a career. Before there was Lena Dunham, there were countless others including Elizabeth Taylor.
Lena purports to be a comedian, although her show is not very funny IMO. And as PP pointed out, she appears on the red carpet at these events which opens herself up to criticism. If you ask me, she dressed as ridiculously as she did because she is a total media whore who craved the attention. No one sane would have picked that dress otherwise. |
Anonymous
The show is FASHION Police. Lena rightfully deserved to be criticized for that ridiculously ugly dress. No one needed to discuss her body size. Does Joan Rivers ridicule GR for looking too thin? No, she doesn't. There, you've had your first lecture in the course called Reality: Discrimination Against Fat People. You're welcome. |
Anonymous
| I think Joan felt able to make these remarks because it seemed like Dunham wanted to mock the awards with her dress and makeup. It really looked like Dunham wanted to say I'm too cool and too smart for this kind of bs. Yes, she's heavy but she also didn't make an effort. I think the fashion round up shows are entertaining and watch them after all the big awards shows. I have never seen them make any kind of comment about Octavia Spencer or Melissa McCarthy or Queen Latifah because they all show up dressed properly and looking very glam. With everything Dunham had access to it's kind of unbelievable the way she looked. She was trying to discount the industry that she herself works in. |
Anonymous
| Joan Rivers is an unfunny hag. And really shouldn't comment on the unattractiveness of others since she has never been good looking and her plastic surgery makes her look like the Joker. |
Anonymous
| People want to punish Lena Dunham because she is smart, funny, successful, not afraid to be an outspoken social critic, and not embarrassed about her body. |
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Anonymous
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Sorry but Lena Dunham is a disgusting fat pig who parades her nasty naked body all over her terrible show.
She always looks a hot mess and frankly, she is a fat and does nothing to try and make herself look presentable. |