I read the Daily Mail when I feel like I haven’t been angry enough lately…as a pagan, tattooed, fat, rock-guitar-loving, childless, pro-choice woman, I’m guessing their editors would see me as the spawn of Satan anyway. And SAV is one of the most patronising of the lot. I’m trying to recall if it was her who said once (trying to reassure mothers afraid that letting their teen daughters diet would give them eating disorders) that – and I quote ‘Most teenage girls would rather die than be a size 14′…as someone who WAS a size 14 teen and knew at least one person who did die of an eating disorder, I actually called them to complain about that. At least, I think it was her – it was years ago.

Bringing Dawn French’s happiness-or-otherwise into it isn’t very helpful. According to one recent interview I saw, Dawn recently retired to Cornwall in the belief – in spite of being perfectly healthy – that she’s going to die young and wants to spend more time with Lenny and the kids. Her dad died young, I seem to recall, so there’s some deep-seated fears tied up there, but saying she ‘can’t be happy because she’s fat’ is just crass.

I really liked the posted response though. It’s damned patronising to assume you can read someone’s state of mind based on their body shape.

Also, does she have a love life? Because she talks about dieting like its a freaking orgasm of happiness!

What I find interesting is that the 2 particular examples of former “slimmers” who regained weight seemed to have a pretty sane attitude about their weight gain, unlike her own reaction.

Give up, Sally. We’re taking over. Resistance is futile! BWA-HA-HAAAAAA!!!