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'Bully' Viewer Stands by Critical Email to Overweight TV Anchor

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/bully-viewer-stands-critical-email-overweight-tv-anchor-180707171--abc-news-fashion-and-beauty.html

this article is about a man named Kenneth Krause, who sent an infamous, hurtful email to Jennifer Livingston, an anchor in Wisconsin. He thinks that she is overweight, and that she is setting a bad example for young adults, especially young girls today. She fights back and argues that the fact that she is overweight is because she has a thyroid condition, which makes it difficult fir her to loose weight. she talks about how she works out regularly, and how shes more than just numbers on a scale.

"This was a personal attack," Livingston said.  "Calling me obese is one thing.  Calling me a bad role model for our community that I've worked at for 15 years and especially for young girls when I have three girls was a low blow and I thought it was uncalled for and I wanted to call him out on it." -Livingston

I think that there is too much pressure on women to be absolutely perfect. When something isn't  "right:" about someone in the media, they are attacked, embarrassed, and are forced to change and alter who they really are. Everyone is different, everyone knows that, and still the media wants people perfect. The perfect height, the perfect weight, perfect breast size. How do they determine perfect? I don't think there are guidelines and laws telling us what is the ideal "perfect", so why do we conform.