[Livia]

Niamh... you're so right.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah such a violation of that womans privacy in a place where she should feel totally secure too. I understand why that woman hasn't come forward but it's a pity because if she had and that girl had to face criminal charges it would be a good deterrent for anyone else thinking about doing something like that in the future. Stuff like this is one very very bad thing about the internet, it gives bullies and nasty people like her a much bigger platform to spread their horrible-ness from and the results can so much more devastating for their victims.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

It's called 'Poetic Justice' T.S.

It's called an eye for an eye and it's no better or worse than fat shaming.

There are clearly plenty of awful things to point out about this woman on a personal level, things that she has chosen to be and things that she has chosen to do and say, without resorting to mocking appearance... suggesting that there's something ugly and / or funny about a random physical trait. She's done it to someone else, yes, and that's a vile thing to do... Doesn't justify "doing it back", even if it's obviously on a much smaller platform.

Edited to add: to elaborate further... When you mock a random physical trait you're not just mocking that person, you're mocking every other person who happens to look similar or have that same trait, whether they have done anything wrong or not. Worth considering.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by MelihV

The most disgusting thing is that she is fat shaming her when that woman is there for.. to do healthy activities?

I definitely agree with that - I don't understand people mocking or laughing at overweight people at the gym / out running etc... They are actively trying to improve their health and body image!

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I definitely agree with that - I don't understand people mocking or laughing at overweight people at the gym / out running etc... They are actively trying to improve their health and body image!

Yeah exactly, what they should be thinking is "Good on them" but sometimes they just can't win, if they don't try they're lazy and it's their own fault and when they do you have people like her laughing at them

[Braden]

What an awful woman. I feel sorry for the person who was photographed, but I also pity this horrendous human for leading such an evidently sad life to the point where she has to humiliate others to make herself feel better..

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah exactly, what they should be thinking is "Good on them" but sometimes they just can't win, if they don't try they're lazy and it's their own fault and when they do you have people like her laughing at them

Even worse I think is that the reason many won't even try in the first place is that they're scared of being laughed at... And people try to reassure them, saying "No no, no one will laugh at you, you're there for the right reasons!"... But the sad truth is, there are plenty of people out there like this woman who ARE laughing.

Weight issues are so complicated and sensitive, too, a very difficult cycle for people to get out of. They're caused by self-esteem issues but at the same time are the cause OF self-esteem issues.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Even worse I think is that the reason many won't even try in the first place is that they're scared of being laughed at... And people try to reassure them, saying "No no, no one will laugh at you, you're there for the right reasons!"... But the sad truth is, there are plenty of people out there like this woman who ARE laughing.

Weight issues are so complicated and sensitive, too, a very difficult cycle for people to get out of. They're caused by self-esteem issues but at the same time are the cause OF self-esteem issues.

Yeah it's a vicious circle and something like what that girl did could have absolutely devastating effects on that woman, really devastating. I mean, even if you were in decent shape someone posting a naked photo of you online could push a person over the edge.

Taking a positive from it though, atleast, as far as I know pretty much everyone who responded to her snapchat post was horrified at what she'd done, she didn't get the reaction she was looking for, which is a bit of a plus for us humans i think

[Northern Monkey]

The fat woman was in the gym trying to shift the fat.She's not being lazy and just sat on her arse.She should be respected and encouraged for that not mocked.

[Niamh.]

A Playboy model who posted a photograph of an elderly woman naked in the gym changing room, with a sarcastic comment, could face a prison sentence and a $1 million damages claim after the victim said that she was interested in pressing charges.

Dani Mathers, the 2015 Playboy Playmate of the Year, took the unflattering photograph in July, inside a Los Angeles gym.

The woman was dressing, and was photographed naked with the caption: “If I can’t unsee this then you can’t either.”

She posted the image on Snapchat, and was greeted with a barrage of anger at her “body shaming” of the pensioner.

She was fired from her job with LA radio station KLOS, and the Los Angeles Police Department has opened a criminal investigation into the matter.

Devin McRae, an entertainment lawyer, said that the victim could be in line for a $1 million claim for damages.




“It could go into the seven figures, it would seem,” he told website The Wrap. “I think the victim would have a very solid case.”

He said she could sue for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. She could also potentially sue under a “revenge porn” statute, which forbids the intentional distribution of an image of a person without that person’s consent, if the distributor of the image knew that the subject had a “reasonable expectation that the material would remain private” and if the image “exposes an intimate body part of the other person”.

Dissemination of private images carries a punishment of up to six months behind bars.

The LAPD is looking to make an example out of Mathers, and the LA city attorney has already launched a review of the case and will announce its decision soon, according to gossip site TMZ.

Mathers, 29, claimed that she posted the image by mistake, and issued an apology.

“I just want to acknowledge a photo that I accidentally posted,” she said. “It was absolutely wrong and not what I meant to do. I chose to do what I do for a living because I love the female body and I know body shaming is wrong, that’s not what I’m about and this is not the type of person I am.

“The photo was taken as part of a personal conversation with a girlfriend and because I am new to Snapchat I really didn’t realise I had posted it, and that was a huge mistake.

“I know I have upset a lot of people out there but please, please believe me this when I say this: This is not the type of person that I am.

"I have never done this before and I will never do this again, you have my word.”

Her lawyer Tom Mesereau, who helped Michael Jackson beat child molestation charges in 2005, said he hoped that reports the woman was intending to press charges were false.

“I hope the rumours are not true,” he said.

“Dani Mathers never tried to hurt anyone at any time and certainly never tried to break the law.”


http://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/...cid=spartandhp

[jaxie]

What a nasty thing for anyone to do. Much respect to LA Fitness for taking issue with it. Isn't the point of a gym for all shapes and sizes and people who want to work and improve their fitness? People are entitled to their privacy in such places.

[Shaun]

Hope the victim takes her for all that she's worth.

[kirklancaster]

Age and the ravages of Old Father Time are coming to this egotistical 'young' bitch soon enough, and I doubt that she will be able to handle it like any 'normal' person.

'Karma' Rules Baby.

[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah it's a vicious circle and something like what that girl did could have absolutely devastating effects on that woman, really devastating. I mean, even if you were in decent shape someone posting a naked photo of you online could push a person over the edge.

Taking a positive from it though, atleast, as far as I know pretty much everyone who responded to her snapchat post was horrified at what she'd done, she didn't get the reaction she was looking for, which is a bit of a plus for us humans i think

I have a friend who is overweight and some the stories she has told me are horrendous. She tries quite hard to keep herself fit but gets a lot of abuse to the point where it makes her want to give up. She said she has taken her daughter and a friend to the cinema and stood in the queue and listened to a young guy in front talking about her loudly to the girl with him, saying what a mess she was and shouldn't be allowed out in public and her young daughter could hear too. Her little girl was horrified and very upset.

Another time she was staying at a hotel with her family on holiday and they had been eating in the hotel but she wasn't happy with the children's menu which was all burgers and chicken nuggets. Because she has a weight problem she is very conscious of her children eating healthily so she was asking at the reception about small portions for her children from the adult menu which was more healthy and was called a fat pig by a man at the reception behind her for looking at the menu before dinner.

She is a lovely person with a kind sweet face and a kind sweet personality, so what if she has a weight problem? It's hard enough for her to deal with, let alone putting up with other peoples ****.

[Livia]

Great that the victim here is pressing charges. If I was her brief I'd take the case for free.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by jaxie

I have a friend who is overweight and some the stories she has told me are horrendous. She tries quite hard to keep herself fit but gets a lot of abuse to the point where it makes her want to give up. She said she has taken her daughter and a friend to the cinema and stood in the queue and listened to a young guy in front talking about her loudly to the girl with him, saying what a mess she was and shouldn't be allowed out in public and her young daughter could hear too. Her little girl was horrified and very upset.

Another time she was staying at a hotel with her family on holiday and they had been eating in the hotel but she wasn't happy with the children's menu which was all burgers and chicken nuggets. Because she has a weight problem she is very conscious of her children eating healthily so she was asking at the reception about small portions for her children from the adult menu which was more healthy and was called a fat pig by a man at the reception behind her for looking at the menu before dinner.

She is a lovely person with a kind sweet face and a kind sweet personality, so what if she has a weight problem? It's hard enough for her to deal with, let alone putting up with other peoples ****.

That's horrendous why do people think it's okay to speak to others like this

[Lostie!]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

“The photo was taken as part of a personal conversation with a girlfriend and because I am new to Snapchat I really didn’t realise I had posted it, and that was a huge mistake.

“I know I have upset a lot of people out there but please, please believe me this when I say this: This is not the type of person that I am.

"I have never done this before and I will never do this again, you have my word.”

Her lawyer Tom Mesereau, who helped Michael Jackson beat child molestation charges in 2005, said he hoped that reports the woman was intending to press charges were false.

“I hope the rumours are not true,” he said.

“Dani Mathers never tried to hurt anyone at any time and certainly never tried to break the law.”

I love how they're acting like the whole issue is that she posted the picture and are overlooking the fact that she took the photo in the first place. Unless they actually believe secretly taking a picture of a naked stranger is perfectly acceptable as long as you don't intend on sharing it online

Stand by for a further statement where she claims she took the photo by accident because she's new to cameras.

[bitontheslide]

It takes a certain type of character to be able to do what she did.

Its invading someone's privacy to take a photo of her in the first place, add on top of that she chose to take it when she was naked. To then set out to humiliate a complete stranger is just so odd. One could perhaps understand if there was some bad blood between them, but this seems to have been a premeditated act on a complete stranger. That's not normal by any standard of measurement. Why would she care what size a stranger was. It's an act of pure nastiness, and she deserves all that's coming to her.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by jaxie

I have a friend who is overweight and some the stories she has told me are horrendous. She tries quite hard to keep herself fit but gets a lot of abuse to the point where it makes her want to give up. She said she has taken her daughter and a friend to the cinema and stood in the queue and listened to a young guy in front talking about her loudly to the girl with him, saying what a mess she was and shouldn't be allowed out in public and her young daughter could hear too. Her little girl was horrified and very upset.

Another time she was staying at a hotel with her family on holiday and they had been eating in the hotel but she wasn't happy with the children's menu which was all burgers and chicken nuggets. Because she has a weight problem she is very conscious of her children eating healthily so she was asking at the reception about small portions for her children from the adult menu which was more healthy and was called a fat pig by a man at the reception behind her for looking at the menu before dinner.

She is a lovely person with a kind sweet face and a kind sweet personality, so what if she has a weight problem? It's hard enough for her to deal with, let alone putting up with other peoples ****.

Jeez, that's awful. People can be complete arseholes

[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Cherie

That's horrendous why do people think it's okay to speak to others like this

The sad thing is this happens to her so often that she rarely says anything or she'd be having random arguments with strangers all the time. There are some real 'special' people out there.

Though she did tap the guy in the cinema on the shoulder and tell him she was fat not deaf.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by jaxie

The sad thing is this happens to her so often that she rarely says anything or she'd be having random arguments with strangers all the time. There are some real 'special' people out there.

Though she did tap the guy in the cinema on the shoulder and tell him she was fat not deaf.

Awful to read whast your friend's gone through. Why are people so preoccupied with other people's looks? I think maybe it helps stupid, ignorant people feel better about their own shallow self. Quite rightly, you can't abuse people over their race, their disability, their sexuality... however people's weight seems to be fair game.

[jaxie]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

It takes a certain type of character to be able to do what she did.

Its invading someone's privacy to take a photo of her in the first place, add on top of that she chose to take it when she was naked. To then set out to humiliate a complete stranger is just so odd. One could perhaps understand if there was some bad blood between them, but this seems to have been a premeditated act on a complete stranger. That's not normal by any standard of measurement. Why would she care what size a stranger was. It's an act of pure nastiness, and she deserves all that's coming to her.

It's not normal but if the things random strangers have said to my friend are anything to go on there are a lot of people out there who think it's OK to make remarks to people and in their hearing about people's appearance. This is just a step further.

[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Livia

Awful to read whast your friend's gone through. Why are people so preoccupied with other people's looks? I think maybe it helps stupid, ignorant people feel better about their own shallow self. Quite rightly, you can't abuse people over their race, their disability, their sexuality... however people's weight seems to be fair game.

Another thing she has found is that a lot of people seem to think she is stupid because she is overweight, like a gibbering idiot and treat her that way. She's actually very smart.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by jaxie

Another thing she has found is that a lot of people seem to think she is stupid because she is overweight, like a gibbering idiot and treat her that way. She's actually very smart.

Why? :/ fgs

[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Why? :/ fgs

I have no idea but she has said it's like people think being fat and having no intelligence go together, a sort of stereotype I guess.

I don't doubt what she's told me, I've actually seem some of it when I've been out with her. People giving her looks and making remarks they have no business making. Hello she can hear you.