"As you are too thin, I am too white. I am so white I literally appear to glow in the dark."

"'Get some sun,' I'm often told. 'Haven't you ever heard of a tanning bed?' It's hurtful, and neither of us should be shamed by anyone for our bodies. HOWEVER. I do not write nonsense comparing myself to long-oppressed people of more pigmented ancestry and taking cheap shots at their intelligence, will-power, and self-discipline just because someone who saw me on the beach failed to understand that my skin color options are white, pink, or red. This piece you've written? It is ridiculous."

A comment on this Daily Beast piece which I got to via this Kate Waldman item that began: "I must yawp my indignation after hate-reading the Daily Beast’s Emma Woolf bemoan the scourge of 'thin-shaming' in Western society."

Hate-reading. I like that. I looked it up in Urban Dictionary and saw it had an entry from January 2012, but only one person had voted on it. 

hate-reading

(n.) -- an online activity in which one visits a website, Twitter feed, or Facebook page for the express purpose of ridiculing -- or indulging one's disdain for -- the author and/or the content on the site

"Okay, I'll be honest: I indulge in hate-reading from time to time, sure, ever since I discovered the Internet in junior high. It's something I usually do alone, late at night, when I'm procrastinating or drunk or bored."

overheard at an office watercooler in Modesto, California, December 16, 2011

The vote was thumbs-up. I agree.

Now, some questions:

Do you hate-read?
	Of course. It's my raw material for blogging/commenting.
	To some extent. For exercise and recreation, but I get back to stuff I like.
	No. Life's too short and negativity is bad. I read only for work or for pleasure.
	I only hate-read Althouse.
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Is it OK to say to someone: You're so thin/You're so white?
	No, it's wrong because you wouldn't say You're so fat/You're so black.
	Yes, because it's usually an advantage to be thin/white.
	You're so thin is okay unless the person looks ill, but You're so white is insulting.
	You're so white is OK if you think the topic is tanning, and You're so thin is OK if you're envious.
	Don't say You're so thin because there is anorexia in the world. Feel free to antagonize a whitey.
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