'You Are A Fat, Ugly Human' Cards Handed To Women On Subway

[smirkymonkey]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/dec/01/fat-shaming-cards-tube-overweight-haters-ltd-police


Transport for London and British Transport police have urged commuters to come forward if they have received so-called fat-shaming postcards on the tube. Images of the leaflet, claiming to be from a group called Overweight Haters Ltd, have now been shared thousands of times on social media, with many speculating it could be a poorly judged publicity stunt.

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Kara Florish, 30, from Southend-on-Sea, shared on social media a picture of a card given to her by a stranger as she travelled on the tube that said: “It’s really not glandular, it’s your gluttony.”

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Though many on social media have pointed to the site as being behind Overweight Haters Ltd, it is unclear whether the Slimgur posts are from the cards’ organiser. The only images posted on the site are those circulated by Florish on Twitter and Facebook.

On Facebook and Twitter, Florish wrote: “I was handed this card this morning on the underground and I would appreciate if people tweeted, posted etc all over the internet. “I am not upset myself. I am smaller than the national average and not exactly obese, but this is hateful and cowardly and could potentially upset people struggling with confidence and eating disorders. Please tweet and share this if you are also outraged. Plus – to the person who wrote this card, go back to school, you can’t spell ‘beautiful’.”

She said the man was middle-aged and white, and placed the card on her lap as he got off the carriage.

Another commuter, Sean Thomas Knox, described a similar incident on his Twitter account, though giving a different description of the man involved. “Young man just got on train at Oxford Circus, gave printed card saying YOU’RE FAT to overweight girl. He jumped off. She read it, [and] cried.

“Am 99.9% sure this wasn’t staged. She didn’t even realise I was watching at first. Her stunned, desolate reaction was very real. Then tears.” Knox described the man who handed over the card as a “hipster.. smartly, trendily dressed” with a beard. “Perhaps it was a piece of conceptual art,” he tweeted

“It lasted a few seconds, but the card in that photo [Florish’s] is the same card I saw, in the girl’s hand. And her shock was real.”


What prompts people to be so cruel and hateful? Don't they think that overweight people already feel bad enough without having to pile on? These people are cowardly and disgusting whoever they are.

[leftynyc]

1. There are people who

are seriously looking for an ass kicking. I wont cry when they get it.

[smirkymonkey]

6. I can't wait until they pull this on somebody with a bad temper and mean right hook!

I would love to see one of these little cowards flattened right in front of an audience full of tube riders.

[dumbcat]

14. Are you willing to condone violence against speech

in all cases, or only when you deem it appropriate?

If right wingers do that too, is it OK with you?

[REP]

15. Good troll well played.

[Downtown Hound]

20. Yes, I am willing to condone violence against these assholes

Now go cry to somebody who gives a shit.

[dumbcat]

21. I also condone violence

against assholes. I just wondered how many others agree. I may want to bring it up again. Thanks!

[Downtown Hound]

24. LOL!

For a minute there I thought this was going to be quite the flame war.

But on a more serious note, there is someone very close to me who is overweight, and one time when I was out walking with her a car drove by and some asshole leaned out the window and shouted, "FAT F#$&!" to her. I couldn't believe it. She is the sweetest, kindest, most creative, hard-working person I know. Suffice it to say, by the time we got home she was totally in tears. And the incident bothered her for a long time afterwards.

I don't care if I'm right or wrong, on the side of the law or against it, or whether or not God will judge me harshly for it, if I ever caught the asshole who said that, oh yeah, one of us is going home with bruises, and I will do everything in my power to make sure it's not me.

[dumbcat]

25. I feel the same way about

assholes that call other people gunhumpers and ammosexuals. Is that OK?

[Downtown Hound]

28. What? Are you going to go cry and feel bad about yourself because somebody

made fun of you for stockpiling weapons of death and contributing to the mass epidemic of gun violence in America? Sorry, I don't view that as being in the same category. So no, it's not okay.

Too bad.

[dumbcat]

30. Thank you

That's what I thought you meant.

We are all for condoning violence in retaliation for speech we don't like. But not so much for speech others don't like.

It's OK, really. I totally understand.

[Downtown Hound]

35. Overly simplistic garbage.

There are different kinds of speech. Speech that is designed solely to hurt those who society has deemed undesirable in one way or another is not the same thing as getting a little heated when attacking those on the other side of the political fence as you, especially when that other side is heavily armed. In the case you mention, it's literally the difference between attacking the helpless and defenseless and attacking the heavily armed.

Now as I said before, go cry to somebody who gives a shit.

[dumbcat]

37. Beautiful rationalization

One can learn so much here. Thanks again.

[Downtown Hound]

38. Glad I could help. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

39. +1000

[canosoviejo]

29. Unfortunately you friend probably still thinks about this encounter form time to time. Cruel ass

people have no idea how they can hurt someone for a very long time. All we can really hope for is Karma or whatever you believe in will catch up to them. I feel sorry your friend had to go through this.

[dumbcat]

33. Fat people should have a safe space somewhere

where they can be protected from such aggression. I'd like to find that place myself, being very overweight and diabetic.

[Downtown Hound]

36. I know for a fact that she does. n/t

[BlueJazz]

2. A large can of red spray paint comes to mind.

No..not really but this is just a horrible thing to do to someone that is fighting a weight gain.

Read my Signature line. It applies.

[smirkymonkey]

8. I know, what is the point of being cruel for the sake of it?

You have no idea how vulnerable and fragile someone might be. It's sick.

[elehhhhna]

27. wasp spray is accurate to 10 meters

Just saying

[LiberalElite]

44. Wasp spray in an enclosed space like a subway car? Reckless.

Just saying.

[TipTok]

3. Sounds like they don't have the nerve to stick around for a conversation...

... and drop their cards as they exit.

[gratuitous]

13. That's my impression from the story

It's classic flame-and-fade trollery. Drop their little stink bomb then skedaddle like the craven little fucks they are.

Just one time, you hope there's a door malfunction on the train, and they get held up for a few seconds while their victim figures out what they just did and lets the rest of the car know.

[haele]

4. Oh, but they're being "truthful, and edgy, and all that shit". Cowardly bullies.

Compensating for their shortcomings and failures by anonymously shitting on people they don't know and hadn't done them any harm - then running away before they can actually see the damage they're doing - or get the shit beat out of them once a bystander realizes they're indulging in drive-by sucker punches.

Yeah, it takes a real strong, intelligent, brave person to drop a hurtful card in a stranger's lap as they're running away.

Haele

[smirkymonkey]

11. I know, I think that's what disgusts me more than anything.

It's just a hit and run. They don't even stick around for the fall out, they just run away like the rotten, cowardly little candy-asses that they are. I really hope someone catches them before they can flee next times and gives them a good pummeling.

[Capt. Obvious]

5. I'm stunned

anyone on the train actually read a pamphlet.

[hobbit709]

7. Hand them a card that says "I can diet but you will ALWAYS be an asshole"

[MrScorpio]

9. The world is too full of hateful bastards nt

[Lizzie Poppet]

10. I'd be a right b*tch to anyone I saw doing that.

I'm not likely to get one of those cards: I'm scrawny (the body shaming I get instead involves "eat a sammich" and "no tits" asshattery). But I'd have a fair bit to say to someone I saw handing out a card like that to anyone. That's purest douchebaggery.

[Glassunion]

12. Something does not smell right with this story.

[taught_me_patience]

16. I bet it's some viral marketing campaign

if not, these guys are pure cowards. I wouldn't shed a tear if they got their ass beaten.

[Rex]

17. FUcking fucking fucking fucking fucking assholes deluxe!

You must live a miserable and pathetic life if you have to troll people in REAL LIFE. All these good people should realize that no matter what that card said, the person that gave it to them lives a horrible existence dominated by hate and fear.

Poor lady...this kind of stuff raises my blood pressure.

[hunter]

18. So why are they fearless in this society?

They deserve serious bruising.

[jeff47]

19. Same reason homophobes think they can beat LGBT people or racists think they can beat minorities.

If you're in the "in" group, you can generally abuse an "out" group without much danger.

[hunter]

31. Yep.

I've never enjoyed an "in" group. I tend to be autistic spectrum loner, except when I'm not.

In middle and high school the "in" group were calling me queerbait.

So I quit high school.

I can't forget that. There are a few I could never forgive. Some others are dead to me, many actually dead.

The rest are funny stories.

There was this kid who frequently tormented me in middle and high school; he'd spit on my bicycle seat, a bicycle I still ride, a bicycle my dad bought in the 'seventies, and worse a kid who had beaten me bloody a few times.

Just one more reason to quit high school, so I did.

By perverse random chance I met him a few years later and he was the boy-toy-slave of an affluent Hollywood cougar. Imagine your worst. One great awesome day of my life, we both pretended not to know one another.

He was a toy in a cage, I was not.

[Rex]

45. No shit! They are cruising for a bruising.

Fools.

[Warren DeMontague]

22. Something tells me they wouldnt have the balls to do that on US public transportation.

Just a hunch

[smirkymonkey]

40. I would love to see them try to pull that crap in NYC.

They'd never get out of the subway alive.

[Warren DeMontague]

41. Statistically, I think Americans are way more likely to be armed, too.

I mean, make of that what you will.

[LiberalElite]

48. Pls. see my post #43

[lpbk2713]

23. Chicken shit asshole jumps off the car at the last minute.

He waits and then drops it in the recipient's lap so there is a delay before they read it. By that time he's out the door. One of these days I hope his reactions are just a bit slow, or he trips or the crowd is in his way and he doesn't make it to the door on time. At that time I hope kharma takes over.

They say beauty is only skin deep, but stupid goes right to the bone as is this loser's case.

[Conch]

34. Not just a loser.

A coward. If you have something inflammatory to say, at least have the pride to stand with your opinion. The drop-and-run thing? I hope a friend or neighbor finds out who it is and lets it be known so that he can receive the treatment he so richly deserves.

[elehhhhna]

26. id mace the fuck outta that guy

Seriously. Mace the fuck out.

[Rex]

46. That is what mace is for imo.

And right in the face too. Cowardly fucks.

[Iggo]

32. Just women?

[WinkyDink]

42. I think we can all agree as to where the "ugly" really is.

[LiberalElite]

43. NOBODY on the NYC Subway better

get any ideas about copycat cards. It will get real ugly real fast. Hipsters are doing this? How would they like to get a card saying "get out of town gentrifiying parasite"???

[smirkymonkey]

47. I would love to see them pull that in New York.

They would get their little hipster asses handed back to them so swiftly they wouldn't know what the hell hit them.