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Aug. 16th, 2006 03:18 pmOooh, I've wasted my life:
In all seriousness, the next time I see someone on TV in a fat suit I'm going to hunt them down and punch them in the face.
I honestly don't know why fat suits are:
a) acceptable to wear anywhere, anytime
b) considered an effective way to begin dialogue about weight
c) considered funny
Is dressing up to look like a different ethnicity or religion funny? Last I heard, the only people who thought blackface was funny were pointy-hat-wearing, cousin-fucking rascists. How is a fat suit different from this? Do we tool around in wheelchairs with Stephen Hawking style voiceboxes to begin a dialogue about disability? Of course not, because people would be incensed. Making fun of people's appearance is the act of a 10-year-old playground bully. Excusing it by saying you're trying to raise awareness is ridiculous...as if they're trying to broaden the horizons of people who have never laid eyes on anyone above 150 pounds. Sheesh!
Bruno Kirby died. Hrmph. He was young, too.
In better news, I'm probably seeing DaVinci Code for real tonight, after planning to see it a zillion times before.
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In all seriousness, the next time I see someone on TV in a fat suit I'm going to hunt them down and punch them in the face.
I honestly don't know why fat suits are:
a) acceptable to wear anywhere, anytime
b) considered an effective way to begin dialogue about weight
c) considered funny
Is dressing up to look like a different ethnicity or religion funny? Last I heard, the only people who thought blackface was funny were pointy-hat-wearing, cousin-fucking rascists. How is a fat suit different from this? Do we tool around in wheelchairs with Stephen Hawking style voiceboxes to begin a dialogue about disability? Of course not, because people would be incensed. Making fun of people's appearance is the act of a 10-year-old playground bully. Excusing it by saying you're trying to raise awareness is ridiculous...as if they're trying to broaden the horizons of people who have never laid eyes on anyone above 150 pounds. Sheesh!
Bruno Kirby died. Hrmph. He was young, too.
In better news, I'm probably seeing DaVinci Code for real tonight, after planning to see it a zillion times before.
