If this had been an editorial about obesity it might have been interesting. Instead it was just an excuse to sling stereotypes and to insult just about everyone. I hope this is a one time guest column.

I had hope this would be a funny piece, but the humor is low grade not even worthy of a HS sophomore, what concerns me is not the “fat” people at UNM as much as the FAT HEADS like Victor Murthy who may be a UNM student, but has learned nothing beyond throwing bombs, having a fat head full of
Excrement is not a positive attribute, nor is writing a unfunny piece, if you are serious you have some serious growing up to do, which is something a excrement filled fat head lonely boy can work on.

Wow! I thought this was going to be maybe even slightly educated, but this piece was shallow and full of disdain (dare I say hate) for who the author deems as fat people.

Murthy would have had so much more credibility if he said what in his experience made him an worthwhile candidate to discuss the aesthetics of the average overweight student body. Is he a fitness and health expert because of years of personal fitness research with credible sources? Is he studying health and nutrition? Does he work in the beauty industry? What exactly qualifies him to discuss, as a guest columnist and not just an ordinary observer, about the “aesthetics” of fat people?

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You have just painted a self-portrait of yourself that was far more offensive than the obese, muffin-top overweight individual(s) you just tried to bash for attention. As the old saying goes, “beauty comes from with in.” It’s funny, as I read your article I didn’t see a fine looking man, I can’t repeat what I saw as I was reading your article. Good luck in finding yourself and your self-esteem. One bit of advice, work at renewing your heart. By renewing your heart,you’ll find in the long run that it is far more appealing to others and it will allow you to someday find yourself.

This piece is not even worthy of an elementary school student. Even a high school paper would not publish this piece of drivel.

Yes being overweight is a problem for the individual, but if Murthy is so narrow minded about others he should go to a school that specializes in skinny athletes and models.

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Nice piece Vic! When you have haters you’re doing something right.

Keep up the good work.

I guess that Vic is the only educated person at UNM. Vic used the same style of satire that Jonathan Swift used in the “Irish Papers”. The response that people are giving is really funny, because the UNM pubic is too ignorant to know what political satire is. Great article and responses.

I read this piece online in Jersey. I keep thinking that I want to see Murthy naked.

Satire, Oh, right. Some of us are educated enough to read and understand satire. Unfortunately Vic is not educated, and doesn’t know what satire is if it hit him in the face. Some of his comments are to the point about the clothing. However, who made him the fashion police, the fat police, the skinny/fit/sexy police?

I don’t see the piece as satire at all,I see an attempt, but it wasn’t funny, nor poignant, nor political. If watergate considers this educated and the UNM public ( I assume you didn’t mean pubic, as in hair-although that could be considered funny) ignorant I bet he has some really funny quotes on the Black Plague.

How is this political, and how does the failed attempts at humor meet 18 standards, if it was a jr high piece then I’m there with ya

If your biggest problem with fat people is that they offend your sense of beauty than GET OVER YOURSELF. I don’t know what you look like, but I can safely say that some people don’t think you’re eye candy and would probably prefer to not look at you. Or thinks a shirt you wore was unflattering.

I thought this would be a sarcastic editorial on the obesity epidemic, but it’s just hateful and shallow.

In a second reading of this piece, I can see that it was intended to be satire — or something approaching it. The problem is that it fell through. The piece went on for far too long. If it was wanting to say that, yes, the original issues mentioned (the smoking ban on campus, abusive football coaches and the eternal struggle between left and right)were what really is important, then it should have referred back to them a bit more. Instead, Murthy left his premise and jumped into a tirade that became hateful. What if he had chosen to mock a racial or ethnic group to make his point? Would the editors have chosen to run the story? Personally, I think that an attack on, sat, people who wear their hats sideways would have made a much better point. If you want to point out that the public are trying to trivialize important issues, then pick a trivial issue to work with.

On the off chance that Murthy was serious, then I would say that the editors of The Daily Lobo have seriously erred. And Murthy is a #%@&&!

How about your daddy? If so, you’ll look in the mirror in a few years and remember this article you wrote in college.

Since you are a HUNK and you must have a girlfriend, I have to ask if her mother is fat?

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Vic’s piece is satire in the spirit or style of Jonathan Swift? Now that is funny. Vic should stick to non-humorous mean spirited screed which he is clearly better at.

Victor did a great job stating what many of us are thinking every time we see an overweight person lacking of more clothes. I think he just had the guts to say it in public. Well done, and please readers, many people are thinking the exact same thing.

This was hilarious, Mr. Murphy states what is only whispered when the morbidly obese choose to present themselves in public with ill-fitting clothes. You don’t need to be an expert to recognize the bestial overweight.

A quick look in the UNM directory has Victor Murthy listed as a business major, and a quick look at his facebook page has him posing shirtless with a moderate build. Yeah, I’d say this is a joke article.

Humor is subjective, so when I say the article was not funny, insightful, political, or clever, I understand if you did I cannot change your mind. But the article was juvenile, mean spirited, and I repeat NOT FUNNY

As for what he is saying, what others are thinking, that doesn’t make it right, I would never want to censure writings, speech, or saint’s preserve us THINKING, would that logic still apply if the comments were racially insensitive, even if they were funny or authentically parody by a member of the same minority.

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What if this were someone else writing an article bashing on gays/lesbians, Vic?

How would you feel about that?

Well Vic, I actually do like my muffin top and have never had any complaints about it. Maybe you are just “muffin top” deprived and crave it but don’t know how to go about getting it. Touch a muffin top every now and then, for as you pointed out, its everywhere around campus. It is actually soft and lovable—jiggles too. You never know, you might actually like it. We muffin top individuals don’t have to starve or worry about gaining an ounce to OMG! go on a diet and be depressed about it. Nope, we go on eating the good stuff. All in the name of muffin top fun :)

I have some really really really FAT neighbors, also UNM students, that live in the apartment below me and they have lots of sex. While hearing her moan and him grunt, I try really hard NOT to imagine anything but I am in awe how this act can even take place to begin with. What is more amazing is that they only take a shower once a week and even then for only five minutes!

SORRY IF I RUINED YOUR DINNER!

You are a shallow, egotistical, self riteous, jerk. You have no lick of common sense. You hang around people that use you and you use them in return. You will never be loved for who you are. It’s awesome that you take good care of your self but if you had any lick of sense you would open up your words to maybe teach those your scorn so badly how to feel good about themselves. Everybody in the world needs to feel loved and you probably made somebody feel like crap and hopefully they don’t go and do anything to hurt themselves. This isn’t satire of any kind this is pure hatred. Karma is a good thing and you will get yours ten fold!!!!!

OK, never mind. You can’t touch my muffin top. After seeing what you look like on facebook, ummm… very unhealthy! Here I thought Vic was athletic and fit. You have what we call a “beer belly.”
My 5 year old son has a more developed six pack than what you are sporting. Oh, points to ponder on… Top Gun the Movie came out in the 80’s. Only Tom Cruise could pull the look off ;-)
As for you “FAT neighbor having SEX” if you say they have lots of sex and can tell how long they have sex…ummm you got some serious issues :O Student health or the Agora Crisis center on campus can help you with that. Sounds to me you enjoy evesdropping on your downstairs neighbors :-S
Sorry dude, but u walked right into this one.
I aint hatin’…just debatin’

-Holla at chu gurl!

Victor,
One quick look at your facebook page (not to mention, a quick read of your phrase ‘the visual atrocities that result from the abysmal wardrobe choices’) and you’re obviously gay. How would you feel if you read an article that said, “Those of us who are normal and heterosexual shouldn’t have to be subjected to the visual atrocities that result from a man holding another man’s hand in public, or from a man kissing another man in public, or from a man grinding his butt into another man’s crotch at the club”?

Moreover, your body certainly does not cry out “long hours of religious gym time.” Your soft belly and arms read “lazy.” You may be in shape (by genetic default, from the looks of it), but you certainly are not “working it” very hard. Actually, you could very well be one of those “who walk on [a treadmill] at a leisurely pace for 10 minutes while chatting on the phone with your girlfriends.”

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Dear Victor, I see plenty of UGLY, skinny people walking around campus…should we ask them to wear paper bags? Just checking!! Last time I checked, we were all entitled to our opinions and our own wardrobes.