Recently, Lady Gaga came out as having been anorexic/bulimic for the majority of her life. For that, she's accumulating much support over the Twittersphere and throughout other forms of social media. This comes after a large amount of criticism over her 25 pound weight gain.
It shocks me that a lady who has been adored for her Caution-Tape swimsuits, Kermit Coat, and Meat Gown would suddenly fall out of favor after a couple of months of eating at her father's Italian restaurant. It's as if the public is saying "You're great just the way you are...as long as you're not fat." What's more, their reaction to her bulimia bombshell seems to say "We support you in your food issues, as long as they threaten to kill you from being too skinny, rather than too fat."
None of this is news to me. I've been in awe this way before. This lesson goes back to my days in Second Life. Back when I was a super-fat housewife, I used to spend a lot of time in that virtual world. It struck me that everyone was so accepting of all of the various avatars. We had extremely popular admins who were furries, robots, aliens, monsters, zombies, and vampires. We had huge parties surrounding pirates, emos, goths and Slime-heaps. Amazingly, it didn't matter what you were in Second Life, you would be embraced...unless you were a fat woman. That's right. Obese male avatars were never questioned, but obese females were avoided, chastised and ridiculed. If you add a couple of "pounds" to your female avatar's waist slider, suddenly you're interrogated with such gems as "Why don't you just make your middle a little smaller?" or "You know you can make yourself taller, right?" and "Why would you come to a virtual world and make yourself fat??"
I recognize that being overweight is unhealthy. I know that striving for exercise and good eating habits are the best practice, but I don't think I'll ever get over the Zombie > Slime-Heap > Meat Dress > Overweight Woman hierarchy.
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