Why I now hate Wycleff Jean...

magenta321 · #1 02-10-2008, 12:46 AM

Big Fat Deal » I Guess I’m Too Fat To Be A Wyclef Jean Fan

I hope every woman every where will boycott Wycleff after what they caught him on tape saying.

phoenixx · #2 02-10-2008, 01:27 AM

**hadassahchana**[$] · #3 02-10-2008, 02:53 AM

Ok. I will no longer buy his CDs.

Wait- I never bought them before. Never mind. Yes, he sounds like an ass. Which puts him in some fine company.

phoenixx · #4 02-10-2008, 12:22 PM

I don't understand what the issue is.

**Helen_B**[$] · #5 02-10-2008, 11:57 PM

I think the issue is that he invited hot female fans on stage, and then said "not if you weigh 200 pounds". Did he think he was being cute? Did he only want skinny hot chicks? If he had said "not if you're black," or "not if you're Jewish," would that have sounded different?

phoenixx · #6 02-11-2008, 12:50 AM

Why do we care if he doesn't want fat chicks on stage?? His show, his prerogative.

magenta321 · #7 02-11-2008, 06:23 PM

Can you picture yourself in this situation? You are a fan of a musician, and he asks the "fine ladies" to get on stage. Wouldn't you go up? Wouldn't you be hurt if he then said "not if you weigh 200 lbs"? I don't weigh 200lbs. Even when I was skinny enough to wear sexy little club clothes, that would have made me uncomfortable.

The guy is an asshole. That's why I hate Wycleff Jean. His prerogative, and my prerogative.

phoenixx · #8 02-11-2008, 11:29 PM

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Can you picture yourself in this situation?

It wouldn't OCCUR to me to get on stage at my present weight at a rap show. Or any show. Not climbing onstage if you are a heavyweight is a given. He shouldn't have had to say anything. I think the "fat acceptance" movement is one of the worst things to happen to us as a country.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #9 02-11-2008, 11:57 PM

Also, I'm betting he has absolutely no idea what 200 pounds even looks like. I was just waiting in line at the grocery store and took a gander at Pierce Brosnan's wife who is "5' 8" and 180 pounds" and laughed until I cried. That girl doesn't weigh 180 unless she's 4' tall. More like 275 or so.

phoenixx · #10 02-12-2008, 01:23 AM

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**pippadaisy**[$] · #11 02-12-2008, 07:00 AM

Yep that's the one. Girlfriend is no 180. Not if she's 5' 8".

**mtomm**[$] · #12 02-12-2008, 10:37 AM

I have to agree that is not 180, especially at her height.

**Prepoia**[$] · #13 02-12-2008, 10:43 AM

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phoenixx said

Why do we care if he doesn't want fat chicks on stage?? His show, his prerogative.

Why would we care if he doesn't want black chicks on stage? His show his perogative.

Why would we care if he wants hot chicks on stage so tells the Jewish chicks to get off stage.

All discrimatory issues could be stated, "Why do we care because it is the people's perogative to feel or talk that way.

I guess you're right because you agree with him that there's too much issue with fat discrimination. So since YOU agree, I guess there's no issue for anyone else. Margaret has the right to state and feel as she does and many people might agree with her.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #14 02-12-2008, 01:37 PM

We always claim that weight discrimination is the same as race, but you can't change your race, so that is an invalid comparison in that regard.

And again, I really think he has no idea what 200 pounds looks like. I don't think most men do. I remember when Kirstie Alley first started with Jenny Craig I was INCENSED at how much she was still lying about her weight.

We also aren't sure if he meant it by looks or by safety measures... I would assume security would have to help people on and off the stage.

I'm fat. I know I'm fat. And I wouldn't dream of going up on stage for people to look at me.

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #15 02-12-2008, 03:22 PM

Even if it was based on safety concerns, there were nicer, more subtle ways of making sure the stage didn't get loaded past capacity besides announcing "No fat chicks" over the open microphone.

**lynnzop**[$] · #16 02-12-2008, 03:58 PM

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pippadaisy said

I'm fat. I know I'm fat. And I wouldn't dream of going up on stage for people to look at me.

But not everyone thinks that way, Pippa. And as MJ stated, there are "nicer" ways to keep someone offstage than to humiliate them over a live mic.

**pippadaisy**[$] · #17 02-12-2008, 04:39 PM

I'd rather be "humiliated" over a live mic before I even thought about it than when a security guard dropped me on my fat ass 'cuz he couldn't lift me to the stage. I'm just saying.

**mtomm**[$] · #18 02-12-2008, 05:13 PM

I don't know who Wycleff Jean but he/she needs a lesson in public relations.

phoenixx · #19 02-12-2008, 10:25 PM

The "size acceptance" movement. Worst thing to happen to us since, well, the Politically Correct Overrides Common Sense movement.

**mtomm**[$] · #20 02-13-2008, 12:03 AM

He should have made that announcement before he took their money for tickets.

But, of course, he didn't.

**Helen_B**[$] · #21 02-13-2008, 03:56 AM

I don't see that any size acceptance movement has made much difference at all in how most people see "fat" people. It doesn't matter if studies show being too thin is unhealthy, or that not all overweight or even obese people are unhealthy. It is just not stylish to be heavy. The beauty standards for women have dropped something like ten pounds a year for forever. Sturdy cheerleaders off the farm who were the beauty icons of the fifties would be considered real fatties now. The fact of the matter is that our body images are marketable commodities. How we feel about our bodies is used to make us spend money on anything from body shapers to special food, when we just need to be strong, flexible and healthy. We should be saying "Use it or lose it!" instead of "Lose it or get lost!"