It's Come To This...

[carolynwhite2]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Talisman" <talisman22457 at ...> 
wrote:

> Well it's just swell if she wants to use the site as a more direct 
> pulpit for changing the world, but not a great deal of fun.  
> 
> (Laughing at fat people is only funny when it's Dudley, remember 
> that.)
> 

I thought it was really refreshing when she was so un-PC about fat 
Dud and all the other porkers in the early books. After all, the 
reason the majority of people put on weight is because they eat too 
much and don't take enough exercise, why pretend otherwise? She 
cheerfully satirised all the useless excuses ('big bones') via Aunt 
Petunia and her reaction to Dud's school reports.

So, I agree, suggesting it's ok for girls to be fat if they want to 
seems to be yet another case of either selective memory, hasty fan-
driven revisionism or giddy hubris on her part that she can change 
the world. 

Not encouraging from someone supposedly engaged in pulling all the 
strands together of a complicated series.

Carolyn