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On 'Good Morning America' today, I saw a story about a TV anchor responding on-air to a bullying email about her weight. The anchor, Jennifer Livingston, is moderately plump (which is to say, huge for TV news), and received an email from a viewer castigating her for not being skinny. He even went so far as to say she was setting a bad example for the young women of the community!

Well, Livingston didn't take that lying down. She gave an on-air editorial calling out that email as the bullying it was. This is a woman who exercises regularly, runs triathlons, and clearly takes her responsibilities as a role model for her 3 daughters very seriously. So, how is she a bad example???

And now, the mixed-feelings part of the post. The television station that she works for, in their public response to all this, basically said "we hope she decides to be a good role model and lose weight. THEN we'll support her." WHAT?!?!?! How about supporting her NOW?

Here's a link to the story. Am I being oversensitive? Judge for yourselves.

No, no not oversensitive. What gets my dander up are the attitudes of the commentators who do not see this as bullying but as a "normal" thing to say. The public has been so brain washed by the billion dollar diet industry that we no longer see people but a "heath problem" which then gives others the by your leave to be utter jackanapes about how they talk to others. As I have said before, fat people are apparently deaf and have no feelings and we are supposed to be grateful for someone pointing out our flaws as if we were not aware of our size.

This story was the #1 story on HLN yesterday. Many positive comments,and they showed her editorial. Livingston was also on the 5 p.m. edition to discuss it, but I didn't see it. And by the way, she's about a size 10-12. She is truly not even a plus sized woman. She's athletic in build.

As a side story to this, I found this this morning on Yahoo!. It's not size discrimination, but it is discrimination and I applaud the woman in question for handling this with grace and aplomb.

Kim wrote: "As a side story to this, I found this this morning on Yahoo!. It's not size discrimination, but it is discrimination and I applaud the woman in question for handling this with grace and aplomb.

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I can't believe that they would fire her over that! Glad she took a stand.

Going in this vein, I found this story this morning on yahoo! I too would have loved to find a dress for prom that was not a mature style. I did find a lovely dress, but it was not of the "gown" variety.

I guess they think that big girls can't dance (BULL CRAP) and should be happy to get anything at all in their size (MORE bull crap). Guys don't have it much better with nice clothes, but at least proms and wedding clothes fur men are usually just a tux.

I can dance and I dance well, so I disprove the fat girls can't dance. I think it is just the idea that if the fashion industry actually HAS to recognize large people or for that much, normal sized people, that all the lies they have told us for years and years may just come back to bite them. The worst thing is that we larger people just go, "Oh well, that's how it is" and that is wrong! We need to start defending ourselves. Use social media to tell designers that we're here, we're big, so get used to it! We need to demand and get better from major labels and support the small individuals who are trying like loveyourpeaches and others like her.

Only if we all rise up as one, will anything change.