And another thing! While I’ve been quiet, I haven’t been entirely out of it. Friday – the day after tomorrow, omg – I’ll be traveling to NYC to tape an episode of Nightline’s Face Off. This debate/discussion-style show has handled all sorts of questions and now…
Now they want to talk about fat. I don’t know when it will air, but I do know that if you are an NYC fatty with some free time on Friday afternoon, I’d love to see you in the audience.
The “Face Off” will be moderated by co-anchor Cynthia McFadden and held at The Cooper Union’s Great Hall in New York City on Friday, February 5th at 4:00pmET.
What:
“Nightline Face-Off – Is It Okay to be Fat?”
Who:
Crystal Renn, model and author of “Hungry: A Young Model’s Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves
Marianne Kirby, co-author of “Lessons from the “Fat-O-Sphere”
Meme Roth, President, National Action Against Obesity
Kim Bensen, author of “Finally Thin”
When:
Friday, February 5, 2010
4:00pm-5:30pm
Where:
The Cooper Union’s Great Hall
The Foundation Building
Continuing Education & Public Programs
7 East 7th Street
New York City
The event is free and open to the public. It will be first come first serve for seating. The hall seats about 900 and we’ll probably open the doors about 3:30.
24 Comments
Oh to be a New Yorker!!!! Good Luck. I have faith in your ability to not punch Meme Roth in the face while exposing her for the idiot she is.
Aww man, my first thought was ‘please kick Meme Roth in the teeth at least once’. LOL
Oh my gosh – Meme Roth! I am so interested in hearing your responses to her crazy talk. When will it be on?
Seriously, best of luck to you. The idea they had to pose the question of whether it’s okay to be fat is kind of a stunner in itself.
So happy to see your name pop up on the feed again, too.
“The idea they had to pose the question of whether it’s okay to be fat is kind of a stunner in itself.”
Yeah, that hit me kind of hard.
Talk about a MEGA framing issue.
I hope it goes well! Please post to let us know when it will be on!
If I could I’d fly to New York for a ringside seat and pelt the sanctimonious harpy with chocolate cupcakes. But, sadly, funds are not permitting. Best of luck though and glad to see you back!
Good luck!! I’m gleefully imagining Meme Roth’s head exploding during the roundtable.
Wow. Please post a link for those of us that will have to watch online. I do not want to miss this. I don’t know if I could share a room with Meme Roth without losing it.
Maybe you can pelt a few cupcakes across the pond at me, buffpuff, while you’re at it?
it’ll be on feb 22!
and i hear that if you shake a tupperware full of rainbow sprinkles while meme is talking, she loses her train of thought and starts to sputter in incoherent terror!
Bwahaha, Marjorie. I nearly sputtered out my morning tea on that one.
I laughed so hard. Oh, man.
Though I live in the area, I cannot possibly imagine sitting through a debate on my right to exist.
I wish you all the best and hope that your participation accomplishes all that it should, though I remain a pessimist given Nightline’s entirely dehumanizing framing of this issue.
I hope you’ll quote Miriam! She really hit the nail on the head.
Yay! So glad that you’re back!
May I join the chorus of Meme Roth–zowzers. I hate that about “news” on most tv–look extremely opposing viewpoints, that’s news! Except it’s not. It’s not even the foundation for a good discussion that an audience member could benefit from–instead it’s the makings of a two ships passing in the night kind of event where the audience member’s pre-conceived notions get reinforced. *Sigh* I thank you for your bravery and for sticking up for all of our rights to exist!
Yay, you! YAY YOU!
That is all. Just yay. For you.
You know, I hate how so many of these “debates” put us on the defensive, like we’re begging for recognition of the truth. What I’d really love to see is MeeMeeMee put on the defensive. Ok, Meems, if you think everyone should be thin, fine, how are you going to do it? Show us the research. Show us research-based proof that you can take a fat person, make her thin, and keep her thin. Show me.
And she can’t.
Oh, you SO have to eat a cupcake in front of Screaming MeeMeeMee. Lick frosting off your finger and make yummy noises. She won’t know what to do with herself.
You will be absolutely AWESOME! Way to step out and speak up.
I ran across this last week, it has been foremost on my mind, and it might give you some ammo: in a study of 19,000 men, the #1 predictor of weight gain was attempts at weight loss. “Quitting smoking and a history of voluntary weight loss prior to the study period were consistently related to weight increase.”
OMG, Meme! What a psycho. Did you know that when Time Out New York printed the interview with you and Kate that they also had a sidebar interview with Meme on the same page? It was pretty offensive, considering that they have tons of articles about working out, but they don’t run sidebars with those saying that it’s OK not to try the latest gym trends.
You might want to find the article online to prep for the shaming of Meme.
Delurking to say – good luck vs. MeMe!
How’d it go? Was LaRoth hateful? Did the end result feel balanced to you?
Wow, you’re going up against that nutjob MeMe Roth? Good luck. Please destroy her name callings and putdowns with reason and logic, that should shut her up