This makes me so 🤬 angry!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

A 19-year-old member of the choir at Swansboro United Methodist Church in North Carolina was fat-shamed by a church leader who told her she shouldn’t be wearing jean shorts with her body.

Over the weekend, the singer, Jenna, went into the church’s bathroom to check her phone because a family member was in the hospital. She was confronted by Bonnie Sue Bihary, who immediately began to shame her by talking about how another “chubby” girl in the church wears an appropriate dress that comes to her knees, and why aren’t you doing that?

“So you’re sitting here calling me fat?” Jenna asked her off camera, her voice thick with tears.

The woman put her hands on her hips and asked her: “Oh. You don’t think you are?”

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/07/03/church-leader-body-shames-19-year-old-girl-fat-girls-dont-wear-shorts/

[gopiscrap]

1. no excuse for that kinda shit

unless you're aiming them at some one who has made those remarks to another such as trump

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. If anyone had spoken to my daughter like that, there would've been hell to pay!

[trev]

2. Seems pretty typical to me.

Methodism is a rather conservative denomination, so it's bound to be authoritarian and brazen.

If I were her, I'd look for a better church to go to.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. Or, no church!

[trev]

25. Well, that would be my choice, yes.

I think most Christians tend to stay with the church. I grew up Methodist myself, but left it when I was 18 to attend another church--much to the rage of my Republican parents. I left that one 8 years later and left my religion behind with it.

But I think I'm an exception.

[smirkymonkey]

4. That's so cruel!

I make fun of how fat Trump is all the time, but that is because he is a mean bully who fat-shames and look-shames others when he is in no position to criticize anyone for what they look like. Also, I hate him and it gives me pleasure to tear him down. Not very mature, but there it is.

However, I would never do such a thing in real life to anybody, especially someone I didn't know. Besides, this is a church! Aren't they supposed to love and accept people for who they are and not what they look like? What makes people think that their unsolicited opinions are welcomed when they are only intended to hurt and shame?

[MrsCoffee]

7. He has only his fake doctor to blame for that.

If you are gonna claim to be something you aren't, expect to get called on it. And since Trump is such a disgusting bully, people do not need to hold back.

6'3" 230lbs my ass, lol

[trev]

26. But ... but ... he's *great looking*.

He says so, so it must be true.

[LuckyCharms]

5. Ah, I know the type.

I've had plenty of people who have verbally abused me in my younger years, and then chastise me for "swearing" while giving their shit right back to them. I know the type well.

That young woman did very well for herself by standing up to that shitty older woman.

[3Hotdogs]

6. I would have responded, "And you are ugly. The difference between us,

I can lose weight tomorrow."

[Bettie]

8. Unfortunately, that is the way this country is

people think that commenting on the size of bodies is OK, especially if they don't meet the arbitrary beauty standards set for women.

Men get fat shamed too, but women are also treated as though their only value is in their looks, with the assumption being that fat is equal to ugly.

It is, however, pervasive.

[cwydro]

9. That woman wasn't exactly skinny.

Wtf?

[lame54]

10. Should she really be going sleeveless?

[essme]

11. OK, It's me, right? Does anyone else

think this kid just needs to think, "geezz, shut up you old twit," or something similar, and laugh it off?

I think the over reaction on the girl's part is a bit odd.

55 year old Episcopalian woman here who dealt with plenty of mean old snot wits back in days of the dinosaurs with no phones-

[cwydro]

12. If she was 16, I could see the drama a bit more, but hey, who knows what's going on in her life.

I know what you mean. I dealt with a lot of that from older women (and men) growing up.

I’ve never been fat, but I’ve always had short hair - you wouldn’t believe the comments I used to get as a young woman.

People are weird.

[essme]

15. especially folks in church

I mean, Jesus Christ- the woman in the bathroom was CLEARLY to anyone breathing, a jerk-- but, to start screaming and crying over it? Recording it? Putting it on social media?

WTF?

[cwydro]

19. I think that's just normal to that age group now. They put everything on social media.

I don’t get it, but I’m not in that age group.

That being said, kind of funny to see that hateful “church lady” get her comeuppance.

Remember Dana Carvey? He nailed that type!

[essme]

22. Yep! I loved the "church lady!"

That said, I don't think screaming and crying like that is normal for a 19 year old.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. Who knows how much that girl has been bullied and/or abused! I think she showed restraint by not

putting that women flat on her ass!

[essme]

14. Really? Being told to wear a dress

results in getting beat up, or put on social media these days?

The old lady is an asshole. No doubt. Clearly, she's a jerk. You don't think screaming and crying, and "putting the woman flat on her ass" is a LITTLE FUCKING over reactive?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. The woman is a bully! The best way to handle them is a kind word followed by a smack in the chops!

[essme]

17. Dude, whatever

Enjoy your prison time if you think that's OK

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. I am! Especially bean night!

[onecaliberal]

23. :

[Floyd R. Turbo]

24. It's a gas! 😏

[Kali]

31. !

[tblue37]

21. Notice the fat shamer is not exactly slim herself. nt

[smirkymonkey]

30. Actually, I just saw the video and I was shocked!

I think the fat shamer was even heavier than Jenna! Jenna didn't look bad and the self-righteous church lady was quite hefty and unattractive. Typical Trumper.

[no_hypocrisy]

27. Sanctimonious bitch!

How does being a bully further the Word of Jesus?

[jalan48]

28. I had no problem with the way she looked. Maybe this is more about envy.

[ProudLib72]

29. It says the woman was forbidden from taking on any leadership roles at the church

Honestly, I think she should have been kicked out and told she was no where close to being a Christian. That would have, maybe, had some impact.

[Niagara]

32. She should have never been fat-shamed, especially by a fellow church member

Jenna's response on twitter.

Link to tweet

[Celerity]

33. follow-up

https://www.facebook.com/SwansboroUMC/photos/a.564510250246151/2697001446997010/?type=3



In a separate video posted to Twitter, Munger as also called for those harassing Bihary to stop, saying, "The only way we can kill that hate is by love."

Link to tweet

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. Thanks for posting!

[spanone]

34. How christian.