Comments on: Superstition Ain’t the Way

By: kateharding

kateharding — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:51:47 +0000

I LOVE THAT BIT, Lynn! Liss linked to it a while back — probably on the currently down actual Shakesville. I think I need to go find the vid.

By: lynn

lynn — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:44:52 +0000

I was watching French and Saunders on youtube the other day (looked like a fairly new bit to me) and during a silly doctor’s office sketch, Saunders (as the doctor) checks French’s weight and says, “Ah! As I suspected you are the perfect weight for a person your size”

I love Dawn French. I sure hope her premonition is wrong.

By: Meowser

Meowser — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:36:30 +0000

I think there are astonishing numbers of people who think that if we fatasses all ate less, it would mean that nobody would starve, because our leftovers would feed all the hungry. You know, instead of actually eating that bacon cheeseburger, buy it and give it to a homeless person instead and eat a yogurt for dinner. Do that every meal and it would solve everything! Except, of course, how to ship a bacon cheeseburger and fries to Appalachia before they got all ooky. And oh, except that rich people, who tend to be thin and buff, spend way the fuck more on food that most fatasses can ever afford to and wind up leaving over way the fuck more food than all my yogurt-sacrifices would ever solve.

By: Julie Neff

Julie Neff — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:54:13 +0000

Dang that pic is hawt. My husband says, “Um…golly.” Heh. He’s liked her forever.

I really hope she and Jennifer Saunders work some more of this type of thing into their shows – it’s absurd.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:11:12 +0000

Rachel, that makes a lot of sense… and also explains why people are so eager to “help” smokers. And why they can delude themselves that both fatties and smokers have no idea that their habits (which, in the case of fatties, they may or may not have) are unhealthy. Because we’re all just waiting for them to come along and save us so they can do their mitzvah at no cost to themselves. I think you’re on to something.

Rebecca:
Oooh, imagine. A parent telling a child how beautiful they are. How dare he.

SELF-ESTEEM IS RUINING OUR KIDS

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:53:19 +0000

The father she hero-worshipped, the first man who gave her self-esteem, telling her she was uncommonly, curvaceously beautiful, and that she should be proud of her physical attributes, died at the age of 45 when she was 19.

Oooh, imagine. A parent telling a child how beautiful they are. How dare he.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:46:34 +0000

I agree with Eloisa – Dawn French hops and skips about far more than women half her age and half her size.

They used to do a gorgeous Dawn French range in Evans, the main ‘outsize’ shop in the UK. It was called 1647, because 47% of women wear a size 16 or over, or something. They discontinued it, though, which was a shame. My purple satin skirt I had to for my engagement party came from it :)

By: Nik.E.Poo

Nik.E.Poo — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:34:12 +0000

Is that too way out?

I think you’re on to something. There is an implied abundance of food, in fixating on “helping” fat people eat less. Perhaps it all helps people deny the fact that many go hungry every day, in this country.

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:27:37 +0000

If you’re really so concerned, I am sure there are a larger percentage of starving people in our nation and throughout the world that would better benefit if someone spent time thinking about what they ate and how often.

Oh! Oh! Um… What if one of the reasons these busybodies shame the fatties rather than help the starving is stinginess? All the fatties have to do, their thinking goes, is not eat so much, so it doesn’t cost them a cent to “help” fat people. But if they want to help some starving people, mere words won’t do it. They’ll have to pull some real coin out of their pockets to do that. It’s a cheaper way to feel virtuous than to do a virtuous act is.

Is that too way out?

By: Lizzy L

Lizzy L — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:33:31 +0000

Oh, she’s so beautiful… And Elizabeth Grice appears to have bought into Hate Fat mythology. WHAT proven link between obesity and heart disease. She needs to do a bit more research. I’m not fat, I exercise, AND I had a heart attack the year I turned 60. Genetics, yes, and bad food choices that had, and have, nothing to do with weight.