A 30-year-old blogger and cafe manager from south London has been hailed a feminist hero after she took to the internet and criticised a man who told her she was too fat to date.
After their evening together, the unnamed man sent Michelle Thomas, from Crystal Palace, London, a message to let her know he found her very interesting but didn't think he could find her body attractive.
"I'm not going to bullshit you... I fucking adore you Michelle and I think you're the prettiest looking girl I've ever met. But my mind gets turned on by someone slimmer."
"I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm trying to avoid bigger pain in the future by telling you now so we don't have to go through that embarrassment. I'm a man..."
"What isn't fine is the fact that, after a few hours in my company, you took the time to write this utterly uncalled-for message. It's nothing short of sadistic. Your tone is saccharine and condescending, but the forensic detail in which you express your disgust at my body is truly grotesque. The only possible objective for writing it is to wound me."
"I'll never see or hear from you again. (You may feel the need to respond to this blog. Please don't. There's nothing you can say that will make me think that you're not a disgrace to your gender.)"
"I want you to encourage your daughter to love, enjoy, and care for her body. It belongs to her and only her. Praise her intellect, and her creativity. Push her to push herself and to be fearless. Give her the tools to develop a bomb-proof sense of self-esteem so that if (I'll be kind, I'll say 'if') the time comes that a small, unhappy man attempts to corrode it, she can respond as I do now."
