Date: 30 Jul 2012 04:17 am (UTC)
lilacsigil: 12 Apostles rocks, text "Rock On" (12 Apostles)
From: [personal profile] lilacsigil
The newspaper that started the Liesel Jones fat hatred is my state's newspaper (the one not owned by Murdoch) and it's been on a real fat-hate binge the last month. This was one case where I *did* read the comments and they were vastly better than the article. Readers thought that the reporters were vile and that this wasn't an actual news story. Unfortunately, this didn't stop the newspaper then going on and on about other (all female, shock!) athletes and their body size and shape.

One thing that might be different about Tokyo compared to most US and Australian cities is that it's extremely population-dense and based around walking and cheap, reliable public transport. It's also extremely decentralised except for office workers, meaning that, despite the size of the city, those kids are walking around in much smaller neighbourhoods that they know well, and where everyone knows them. When I lived there, it was very like living in the rural town where I grew up - just 1000 of those towns pushed together with a city in the middle!
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