So I guess I can't pawn it.

[wednes]

Oooh, I've wasted my life:

My blog is worth $0.00.
How much is your blog worth?

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.

Comments

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I daresay my "anytime, anywhere" statement was a bit heavy handed. I was referring to the (at least pervasive, but probably dominant) trend of wearing fat suits to mock fat people. Amy Sedaris is the exception to every rule, as would be that photoshopped "fat" pic of Stephen Colbert. I have seen nothing to suggest that either Sedaris has any sort of problem with girthy types. Usually the fat suit is coupled with either mocking of fat people or gross, steroetypical misrepresentations about why people are fat.

With regard to actors though, I would suggest that they hire someone larger rather than figuring out how to make a thin person look large. There are plenty of actors of all sizes out there, but the same 20 or so chicks with nearly identical body types (with some variance in height and bust size) are in every damn movie.

Yeah, poor Bruno. I put in Godfather II this afternoon.