Chaz Bono: ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Judges Treat Overweight Men, Women Differently

I THINK MR BONO HAS A LOT OF CLASS TO REACT IN THE NICE WAY HE DID AFTER BEING COMPARED TO AN ANIMAL. CAN’T PERSONAL REMARKS NOT BE ALLOWED BY THE JUDGES? CHAZ WAS RIGHT, DON’T JUDGE HIM BECAUSE HE IS VERY HEAVY. HE’S NOT BLIND, AND SEES EVERYDAY HIS BODY.

Chaz Bono can’t dance. PERIOD. Stop blaming the judges for your inability to dance. Stop capitalizing on your sex change as a reason to win the contest. The show is called “Dancing with the Stars”, so you will be judged based on your dancing! As for the comments that compares you to animals. I could see where Bruno is coming from and I believe that most of those comments are done for the show so it can attract more attention and to make is not boring especially after watching someone like her DANCE. I always look forward to what the judges have to say.

Chastity is trying to make himself/herself famous on the coattails of two very talented parents who “back in the day” were just wonderful and provided some great music and talent to millions of Americans. Children of celebrities can’t automatically be worshiped and adored by their parents’ fan base. They have to earn their way. Bono so far has not shown any talent. Except he/she gets an “A” in whining.

Awe. Poor baby Chaz. Has s/he just come to realize that fat people get treated shabbily in this world? Puhleeze. Fat people all over north America are discriminated against, abused, mocked, isolated, shunned, and treated worse than any ethnicity, sexual preference or confused gender is. Being fat is the only thing left that is socially acceptable (even encouraged) to discriminate against. Most fatties have it much worse than rich little gender confused ewoks like our Chaz. Time to get over yourself.

First of all, ABC shouldn’t select any one who is overweight. We want to see beautiful people on the screen. They (overweight people shouldn’t enter that kind of show. They are giving the jusges and the audiences a chance to redicule them. I feel sorry for them. I would never enter that kind of show no matter how much they offer me. ABC should only pick the real star.

Chaz Bono is not an ‘overweight male”. This thing is not a male. Chaz Bono is a mutilated freak female.

Quit making excuses “Chaz”. You just can’t dance.

Jonah hil, I mean chaz bono is a chick.

Snide comments aside, Chaz’s dancing on Monday was not the best, it was the worst, and the elimination was appropriate.

It took long enough, but I guess they had to be 1000% instead of 100% sure about it.

Chaz did look like a penguin because of the tuxedo and short steps ~ nothing else.

Every season cheap shots are handed out, nothing new and it will not stop.

Where in the world do you people get the idea that Chaz is commenting on his dancing ability (by his own admission he knows he wasn’t the best dancer) or his weight. It’s about simple, common courtesy – a judge should never, ever call a human being who has taken the risk to compete an animal. It is absolutely uncalled for and shows where that judge came from – perhaps Bruno is still smarting from the bullies he knew when a child in his hometown, who knows. Regardless, this is purported to be a FAMILY show and people like Bruno teach our children that it’s OK to call people who are different (weght comparison only) than us pejorative terms and liken people to an animal. Also the infighting while the judges may think it’s cute it’s rude and sets a poor example for our children.

I love Dancing With the Stars HOWEVER all the name calling and remarks regarding one’s appearance is totally unnecessary. Do I think Chaz deserved to be there this long – no – but apparently had enough votes to keep him ( I think that is how the show works). Have not like some of the remarks made toward his appearance – they are to judge their dancing – even telling Hope she needs to walk like a girl wasn’t needed – why can’t they just say she needs to walk sexier.. Max is always controversial – but I do like that he stood up for his partner and their work. When he made his comments “It is my show” I understood what he meant – but knew it would not be understood by all. Why don’t we just start over – judges – please judge on the dance – not how hard they worked or didn’t work or how they look.(don’t make it so obvious who you love – come on Bruno – you can be sickening with your comments). Max – calm down and show the judges what Hope can do! Love it when the public sticks it in the judges faces!

Every year this show has a so-called celebrities that are designed to get niche groups of Americans to watch the show. Ironically, for the past couple seasons these “celebs” have really been freak show children of real celebrities. The only reason Sarah Palin’s daughter stayed on the show as long as she did was because of the right-wing nut jobs that wanted to make a statement. This year it was the LGBT crowd making their voices heard by keeping their patron saint on the show longer than he/she should have been.

That may be tough for little Palin and Chazerdoodle to hear, but that’s the role for which they signed up.

Like Jimmy Kimmel told Chaz last night, “take it like a man.”

If you are going to be a man, you better take in on the chin, and move on.

I hope this DWTS experience gave Chaz a different perspective, so she can see how fun it is to be a woman. Maybe she will discontinue further gender reconstruction and use the money for a tummy tuck.

This is stupid. Chaz can not dance, sad but true. He whines that overweight women are treated better and yet the over weight women he’s talking about COULD dance, THAT’S why they are treated better. Tuxedos are called penguin suits for a reason, that’s where that comment came from, well that and the shuffling feet like a penguin!! I made the comment at home before Bruno said it! It was the movement and outfit! As for Chaz complaining that it was like they were saying he was a troll, well both penguins and ewoks are cute, cuddly, and adorable so that’s obviously his own issues shining through. Now if they called him something like Quazimoto or something I could understand but they didn’t. He can’t dance and is a whiner, I don’t care if he used to be a she, talent skipped a generation.

Chaz is a whiner. A fat, disgusting out of shape slob AND a terrible dancer shuffling around, flailing your arms and sweating are not dancing The women on the show are losing weight and improving -.Chaz has done neither. He looked ridiculous squeezed into that Tuxedo.

Couldn’t have worked to hard, look at what Kristie Alley did when she was on the show. I’m sure medicine has something to do with it, but come on, didn’t lose an ounce. That being said, the judging needs to bring the proffesionalism up a bit, calling people names instead of constructive criticism is wrong.

I really admire Chaz for his being able to do DWTS. I think that mostof his difficulty came from the massive amounts of medicine and the stress that he has suffered even before the DWTS began. I think it took a lot of gumption to put up with the judges commnts, as I have said before I think it is time for the judges to exit and let a new crew take over. I agree with Maks.

Beth: Have you read the Bible, it really does not say Big Whoop about homosexuality. And what “nature makes mistakes all the time.” So you are saying Chaz is a mistake, interesting.

You critical people are cruel and need to get a life. Apparently, you think you are perfect, but criticism makes you wrong. Good Luck Chaz in whatever you decide to venture into with your new life now.

This is what Liberal America has turned into: a wuss, the wussification of America. The spineless crybabies in this world have never made anything far in life. Thank God for never having these kinds of people as leaders or the top of anything.

Imagine having Chaz as CEO / President of an organization with his sympathetico here. LOL. What would they do when the competitions thrash them, libel, slander, character assassination etc…? Losers! stop whining, pick yourself up gggg.

Max & Chaz have litgit complaints. They invite the stars to be on the show and then treat them with disrespect.? Why not complete the 8-10 week program with all of them improving and then give each a trophy with the most votes for the Winner receives the Mirror Ball! No one gets eliminated. Let the stars complete the entire program.

I guess I don’t get where Chaz was whining. I must have missed that part. However, name calling no matter what, is not, and should not be a part of the judging. Chaz as far as I know never said he could dance. He just hoped he could learn and improve from the experience. And probably hoped it could help him lose weight. As for the name callers and the rude people, you all have your own opinions and you are entitled to them but, the name calling is not necessary. Take a look at yourselves and make that change! It takes a small, small person to be that cruel and it doesn’t say much for your characters.

Chaz’s gender isn’t the issue that some on this thread would like to make it to be. The issue is how far the judges, or anyone else should go in making grossly unflattering attacks on a contestant. Chaz does have a short, round body and comparatively short legs. The tango is not a dance that such a person, no matter the gender, would be able to perform well. Bruno often gets carried away in his citiques — it’s one thing to critique a contestant on technique, intensity, musicality and connection with a partner because those are all part of the learning process. The judges should concentrate on how well the celebrities develop from non-dancers to reasonably competent amateurs.

Also I can’t believe Chaz doesn’t know what it takes to not be overweight. Most human beings above the age of 5 know what they have to do. They just have circumstances in their lives that prevent them from exercising enough to lose weight. Chaz is in a position where he has a lot of money and doesn’t need a regular job. He could easily hire a personal trainer if he wanted to.

Chaz was long overdue to go home. She did look like a penguin. Yes, she is biologically a woman. Chaz is obese not fat. She seems oblivious to the disgust by wearing wifebeaters and going shirtless. There is absolutely no talent there. The whining makes her more repulsive.

It is ludicrous for Chaz to complain about being discriminated for being a man. She isn’t a man, just check her DNA. Although I have a lot of sympathy for her, she was handled with kid gloves by the judges. Bruno got a little overly enthusiastic with some of his descriptions, but he always does. She was the worst dancer and needed to go on the first show. American Idol has popularized the tough comments from talent judges. These judges are just emulating Simon Cowell. As a footnote, I am an overweight man, and would rather be an overweight man than an overweight woman any day of the week.

I used to really enjoy the show, but it is fast losing any appeal for me. Just like alot of the people posting hateful comments about someone they don’t even know, our society is turning disturbing.

I posted a day ago and came back to read some comments. I left the site again and just had to come right back. believe me I have my faults but” some of the comments on here are just plain unbelievable. The Judges have Judged and Bono is kicked off because the dancing this person put out was plain ole terrible. His Mama cannot save him every time. Critical he claims of what?? dancing? Is that not what the judges are hired to do??? (JUDGE DANCING) Get over it Bono, cry to Mama and just have Mama buy you a new car or island.

Unbelievable! I’ve never thought that American people can be so cruel. I am from Russia and always tried to learn from American to be more tolerant and kind. Is this the real face of people?? How can you call Bono a thing or nothing?? Nature can make mistakes! Bono is very brave to do that! You claimed that he can not dance! Are you?? Have you ever tried? I am a dance instructor and know how it’s difficult! All of them are doing incredible job!!!
That situation was rude and impropriate especially for the family show! Judges and professional dancers should behave professionally! Bruno and Max were openly rude!

Chaz Bono lacks something very important to call yourself a man, so Ifind it odd that he was allowed to compete. ABC and television in general is entirely out of touch with mainstream values. There is entirely too much “gay” representaiion in eveyrthing from sitcoms to TV Movies. If you insist upon calling yourself a man, Chaz, then man up and admit that you were not fit enough for the rigors of dance competition. By simply offering youself up as a spectacle you opened yourself for any manner of judgement, be it from the show’s judges or TV fans. Going on a diet/exercise program BEFORE you offered yourself up for DWTS would have helped, bur face the facts, you do not have the grace nor the athleticism to take on competitive dancing. I am not trying to be crewl, just stating the facts.

Come on Chaz! Bruno wasn’t trying to infer you were an animal/subhuman. You were wearing a tux and waddling around flat footed like a, well, penguin. It was a critique of your dancing technique, not your humanity. Period.
Oh and “Thelma is cooked.”

I am amazed that people actually think that doctors can turn a woman into a man. Medical science can mutilate a woman and pump enough male hormones into her to shorten her llife but they can’t turn a woman into a man. I don’t agree with how nasty some people can be but I can understand why they’re so angry. Chaz Bono is not a “new kind of man”. She is a woman who is taking dangerous risks with her health and advocating it to others.

“A different kind of man” lol lol lol dont care if you dress like a man YOUR NOT never will be

I believe the judges discriminate in more ways than weight as does the audience, & fans. Although they may not have won either way. I feel this is the true face of our nation no matter what people say they show their true predjuduce in many ways. Excuse spelling errors.

Honestly i am very grateful for the people in this world who are not ignorant and try to understand the concept of being transgender. To me i is really upseting to see people who have no idea what they are talking about making ingnorant comments about someone who is transgender, and then going on to make comments refering to the entire transgender community. I am willing to bet all of the hatefull comments made came from in fact cisgendered people.I am also willing to bet none of you even know what that means. You REALLY do not understand what it is like to live in a world where it is not safe to tell the truth about how you feel. That your life henges on you repressing you feelings. And praying to god every night that maybe just maybe he will forgive you for whatever it is that youv’e done. Hopeing that maybe you parents will love you even though they tell you that god will send you to hell if you don’t feel like a girl. Please just think about it, what it woul be like as a child to have nightmares that your parents find out how you feel and kill you. Please just take into consideration how your words are affecting people out there, who are dwendeling by a strand of hope that maybe someone out tere will except them for who they are.