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Lizzo being sued for fat shaming

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,827 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    There is more to this as well, sounds like some sexual harassment thrown in for good flavour.

    But the fat shaming…I’m having a very difficult time understanding that…very, very difficult.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,567 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    It's simple, she doesn't see herself as fat, only others.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,827 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Or, she is just another horrible celebrity? Or both actually, you are probably bang on.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,374 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    It's quite reductionist and condescending to say she's based her entire career on obesity but it's certainly part of her brand.

    I struggle to understand how someone who has no doubt been subject to harassment for her weight can put someone else through the same thing. The touching a nude performer story sounds like a college frat party.

    That Quigley one sounds like a contradictory nightmare; trying to convert people to Christianity and abstain from pre-marital sex while publicly humiliating virgins. WTF?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,173 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Jesus, how fat did she get??

    Be like Keith Richards lecturing you on drug use.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,039 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    She blazed a trail for all the flute playing morbidly obese women in the world



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,827 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Whatever about the fat shaming, the other accusations are horrible, if true she sounds like a right ballbag



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,093 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    It seems to be mostly her dance instructor that's the cause.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 698 ✭✭✭TedBundysDriver


    Horrible horrible role model for women especially young women. There is nothing smart in what she's doing. Fat people have more health issues than people with a normal body and are a huge drain on our health services. She isn't a very nice person at all.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,524 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack



    She’s a ballbag anyway, I think that’s the point of these accusations - because she’s a successful ballbag 😂

    I think it’s the whole wanting to see her taken down a peg or two is all, celebrity shìte 😒



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,827 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    I think her vitriol didn’t do her any favours, especially underneath her “positive” message, she is just a horrible bully.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,524 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack



    Like Lizzo, the whole thing is being blown out of proportion. The novelty wore off and there was no talent underneath it to sustain her career. It’s why they’re coming out with this shìte - because they know controversy generates revenue. It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if the ‘complainants’ were paid to play their part by Lizzo’s management team.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,769 ✭✭✭StrawbsM


    If this is the dance instructor’s defence then…. 😂




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭DownByTheGarden


    Im not a fan, but Jesus, why are people constantly going straight to guilty on the strength of an accusation. This really has to stop.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,827 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Blown out of proportion? And what novelty? She just toured this year.

    The rest of your post is conspiracy level crap, no time for that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,684 ✭✭✭blue note


    When I saw this story I thought of boards. I imagined that lots of the people who normally come onto a thread when someone is accused of something and say "show me the conviction" would not take that approach here. I'm not going to trawl through people's histories, but I suspect that's very much the case here.


    You have to ask yourself why.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,524 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack



    Ahh relax Frank, manufactured controversy is part and parcel of the entertainment industry.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Jack Daw


    Disgraceful the criticism Lizzo is getting, it's all from haters who dislike strong black women who play by their own rules. Their dislike of Lizzo just shows how racist, misogynistic and insecure they are .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    American obesity is coming here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90,421 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    I wonder is she feeling good as hell now 😄



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,996 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    So I'm a fat barsteward, right, but I'd never tell anyone being fat is healthy under any guise of body positivity.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,827 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Sure thing, I mean it is not likely at all that she is as bad as these claims say or anything, right?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Welcome to the entertainment industry



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,646 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    The embracing of Lizzo for body positivity is just another dumbass import from the industrial dumbass factory across the water. From what I know of her she comes across as an awful human and that was before these accusations came out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭BlueEyeGleams


    She plays the flute?! ..probably some sexual connotations but I’d never have any of these gobs ahoy doin the rounds nowadays pegged as musicians. Essentially perverts on parade, forcing dancers to eat bananas from prostitutes cracks reads like some stage routine prep



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭Seneca the Stoic


    She seems delightful, and not exhausting at all



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,947 ✭✭✭✭Rothko




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,827 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    'The bigger they are, the harder they fall'



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,975 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    ..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭Seneca the Stoic




  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,382 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Just another utterly talentless "celeb" who is as much a hypocrite as she is an idiot.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Guys the term F** Shaming is no longer acceptable. Thou shall use Weight Shaming hence forth, as per RTE's revised guidelines. This is to be more inclusive of people being shamed for all weight identities, such as a skinny identity, and to eliminate common usage of the F word due to it being humanizing and offensive.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90,421 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    I do like her music and thought she was a decent skin herself, disgusted if all true, a hypocrite with the diva attitude



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,769 ✭✭✭StrawbsM


    I went down a rabbit hole and came across an Azealia Banks Instagram video about her from a few years ago.

    My conclusion - they’re all Kray Kray



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,099 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    I've no idea why she was ever used as an example for body positivity anyway, she is a walking heart attack and unless she gets rid of the excess fat on her body she won't see old age.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 679 ✭✭✭BaywatchHQ


    Women preach about body positivity then go and make fun of short men or men with small penises. That vile girl Gretta Cuntberg made a twitter post accusing Andrew Tate of having "small dick energy" and also a pornstar accused Trump of having a 3 inch penis and it was the most liked post of the day.

    They basically are saying that you are less of a man if you have a small penis which is very hypocritical of them because these are the same people who say that trans men are men even though they may not have a penis at all. I read a good article from a trans person explaining this hypocrisy of penis shaming.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90,421 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,162 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Andrew Tate definitely does have that kind of energy though, she wasn't wrong.

    He also has 'absolute geebag' energy and 'Don't leave a woman alone with him' energy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,453 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    They were talking about this on the radio today, but they were saying how great she is and then played one of her awful songs, wtf? is it just because she is fat we cant say anything bad about her?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭RurtBeynolds


    is it just because she is fat we cant say anything bad about her?

    It astounds me sometimes the level of stupidity I read on this site.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,104 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    Firstly, if the accusations against Lizzo are true. I hope she faces plenty of consequences career wise as it's entirely unacceptable.

    Sex trafficker Andrew Tate does have small dick energy though. It's not really a comment on a tiny penis, it's a modified version of Napoleon complex. Andrew compensates because of insecurities and she's aware that he's the kind of person who would get upset about commentary on his penis size. 🤣

    Also I'm a man before you get outraged about mean women.


    Edit: mistook this for another thread briefly, I was half asleep. 🤣

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,173 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    It's designed that way. The lawyers would be instructing their clients to get support via SM which then gets picked up by other media. The purpose being the chances of a settlement are higher even if the allegations are not really true the reputational damage could be very costly.

    TBH the charges against her are pretty thin no pun intended.

    Ms Davis alleges the two questioned whether she was "struggling with something as she seemed less committed to her role on the dance cast", the case details.

    "In professional dance, a dancer's weight gain is often seen as that dancer getting lazy or worse off as a performer. Lizzo's and Ms. Scott's questions about Ms. Davis's commitment to the tour were thinly veiled concerns about Ms Davis's weight gain," the documents allege.

    Though never explicitly stated, the questions "gave Ms Davis the impression that she needed to explain her weight gain and disclose intimate personal details about her life in order to keep her job", the legal documents say.

    Life on these mega tours are pretty stressful.

    But super stars are not all dicks.

    Bit of class here.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    why else? its not pc these days to have a go at anyone who is different, even if they did something wrong.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    People have been saying that for at least 25 years now and we're still perfectly free to have a go at people who are different. And that's just in my memory - I'm sure older people have had even more years of people shíting "oh, you can't say anything these days, whah, whah". It's hogwash, if you'll pardon the pun. This whole thread is an opportunity to have a go at someone and plenty are making the most of it and rightly so in my opinion.

    I guess that small dick comment must have stung.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭Sugarlumps


    Amsterdam, bananas and vag.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,292 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    I don't know about the transes but I do know men with small peonises are less of a man. Like what use is a small peonis?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,292 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    I've been thinking about this and I speak with some authority on the matter, that you aren't asked to consume the banana while it is held somewhat inside the vagina of the young lady in question. As I remember it, they use their pelvic floor muscles to eject the peeled fruit item across the room and it is up to the patron whether they decide to catch it, with the hands, the mouth, or not at all.

    Honestly on this basis alone I think the suit should be dismissed.



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