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In reply to the discussion: #fatshamingweek [View all]

Ian David

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4. Some Terrible People On Twitter Have Decided That It’s "Fat Shaming Week"
Thu Oct 10, 2013, 09:40 PM
Oct 2013

On Monday, Return of Kings, a blog “for heterosexual, masculine men,” announced it would devote its space that week to fat shaming.

“Hurting people’s feelings is the quickest way to get them to change,” the kickoff post reads, “as any man who has been rejected by women can tell you (we can get laid today only because we’ve adapted to being shamed and punished for our appearance and beta male behavior over the course of many years).”

The post concludes, “We have decided as a group that fat shaming is essential in creating a society of thin, beautiful women who are ashamed for being ugly. Let the fat shaming begin!”
A Twitter account promptly sprang up to collect the tweets.

More:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alannaokun/some-terrible-people-on-twitter-have-decided-that-its-fat-sh

It looks to me like this is rooted in the psychology of some anti-feminist men who have a butt-hurt over being rejected by women.

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