YOUR-SAY

"DEAR FAT PEOPLE"

These last two or three weeks there has been such a stir in the English-speaking community in the Internet. Just because a video of a blonde and skinny girl named Nicole Arbour who talked about the fat people. The video is called "Dear fat people", and in the video she talks about fat people, making fun of them and also telling them to loose weight (in a rude way). A lot of American and English youtubers (also from other nationalities but most of them were from USA and from England) reacted to the video making other videos showing their opinion of it. Most of the comments of the girl's video were bad, so Youtube had to close Nicole's channel. After some days, Youtube opened her channel again and even let the video in Youtube.

In my opinion, the video is not as bad as everyone says. Even though this video is SO rude (Nicole explains her opinion in a very disrespectful way and, of course, there's other ways to tell what she wants to say) I think everyone criticized her because she defended a position that is "socially incorrect". I mean, if for example a man tells a skinny woman that she is too skinny, nobody would say nothing; but, if a man tells an obese woman that she is too fat, everybody would be like "You're so rude! How did you dared to say that?! or would think something like this. With this I want to say that there are topics that we considerate tabu, like telling fat people that they are fat. But, I think that we have to change our mentality about that. Of course, I don't mean that when you see a fat person you have to tell them that they're fat, no. Because that will mean that you're rude and I'm not saying that we have to be rude to people. But telling a friend or a close person that they're fat and they should get slimmer for their own health it would have to be a normal thing, because you are caring for their health. As much as we tell people with anorexia or bulimia to eat and get fatter for their health, we have to do the same with obese people, because obesity is a disease like anorexia or bulimia.

Another point is that if a fat or obese person had done this video instead of that girl, people wouldn't had criticized that much, because it's accepted when "you laugh at yourself". People reacted so bad at the video because it was made by a SLIM BLONDE WOMAN. For example, if a black guy makes a joke about black people, its funny; if a bald man makes a joke of bald people, it's funny; and also if fat people make jokes about fat people, it's funny. But if a white man tells a joke about black people... that's racism. And I'm not saying that it isn't but, I think everyone should be able to make jokes about everything, as long as we're polite and not trying to offend anybody. We have to take life with a little bit of humor. A joke is a joke, and we have to learn to tell jokes and not get offended about that as much as we have to stop using jokes as a medium to hurt or offend people. 

Of course, this is only MY opinion and I know that everyone has their own opinion and maybe they will not think the same as me. With this post I don't want to offend anybody, I just wanted to do a reflection.

I give you the link of Nicole Arbour's video with subtitles in spanish (I recomend to see it to understand better my opinion):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LriDtaf9VAo

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME

Dear Anna,

I'm Paula Caball, I'm 16 years old and I'm from Castelló d'Empúries. I was born in Figueres the 16th of August of 1999. Well, to start my personal presentation, I'll tell you a bit of how I am physically: I'm not very tall, but also not very short, so I think I have a standard height. I'm slim, I have brown, straight hair and two big brown (with a little bit of green) eyes.

Talking about how I am personally (which I think it's more important and interesting), I think I'm outgoing and I try to always be a happy person. I think I'm also friendly, but sometimes I get sad or mad so easily. I mean, that I'm a very sensitive person and sometimes that's not a good thing. 

I love playing sports. I've been playing basketball since I was 10 years old with a team of my village, Els Esplais. I always wanted to do athletics, because I love running and I think I'm quite good in it but, in that time, all of my friends wanted to do basketball, so I went where all of my friends went. Then, I discovered that I actually liked basketball, and I kept playing it in the same team since I was 10 until this year. This year I had to stop playing it because last year I was so overwhelmed because of the studies and my after-school activities. I went to guitar classes twice a week and I also went to the basketball trainings twice a week (and obviously I also had to go to the matches) and that took me a lot of time (specially the trainings and the maches). Also, my mother wants me to get the First Certificate Exam, so she wants me to join English classes after school. I saw that I couldn't do everything, so I left basketball because it was the activity that took me more time. In fact, I wanted to still doing it, so it was hard to left the team. But I will not stop doing sport because I like it and It's healthy, so I'll go running twice a week (or maybe in some specific weeks I'll go once or three times).

As I said before, I go to guitar classes, so I play the guitar. I love listen to music, I don't know what I would do without music in my life (I think it just would be more boring). I also like to sing (even though I'm not a good singer) and playing the guitar at the same time, doing (or trying to do) covers of my favourite songs. But I have to admit that I'm not very good in it. Well, the important thing is that I enjoy doing it, so the other things just doesn't matter or are not as important.

 I will talk a little bit about my family. My father's name is Xavi and my mother is called Neus. I don't have any brothers or sisters even though I always wanted to. I love animals, specially dogs, and I always wanted to have a dog or any pet, but my mother hate animals (well, she's afraid of animals) so I've never got a pet. Well, when I was little I had two little fishes but they died after a year. Then, when I was 8, my grandmother bought me a little dog for me, but my mother didn't want him at home, so he lives with my grandmother. But I visit him and my grandma every two weeks (because she lives away from me). His name is Bobi, he's a yorkshire terrier and he's so adorable! He's so nervous but he doesn't bite, he just licks people. He's also a bit shy when he don't know people.

So, this is a little part of my life and how I am. I hope you like it and discovered new things about me.