Comments | adinkra: Fat fat skinny, bones chubby thin

adinkra

Fat fat skinny, bones chubby thin

Apr 05, 2006 14:33

JKR has a rant for us.

Unfortunately, I loathe hypocrites. ( So I have an thoughts-from-off-the-top-of-my-head rant for her. )

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queenof1000days April 6 2006, 05:34:50 UTC

You!

I need your cellphone number because goshdarnitall I will make it down South ;) before I graduate! Keep in mind, graduation's most likely 2011.

So. E-mail me it.

And no, you don't have a choice about it. >:P

I blame this entire comment on the fact I'm hyped up on NyQuil, Sudafed, and Tylenol.

WTF? prettyh April 6 2006, 07:39:23 UTC

Okay, I hadn't yet heard about the JKR rant. I need to go read it, but just from what I've read here and the points you've made...I'm...appalled, maybe? Shocked, at least. Especially at the notion that she'd title it "for girls only, probably". What the...?

Okay, I'll come back after I've read it all. If I'm not too pissed off to type by that point. But thanks for linking to it; I'd have missed it otherwise, I'm sure.

Also, I have to respond to your comment about Scorpios! I should have been clearer. And I will be. Sorry if I sounded like I was making a blanket statement - not so.

merrymelody April 6 2006, 12:48:59 UTC

Hey there. Got here through ataniell's and just wanted to say I'm glad to see this post and I agree.
I'd also question why, if JKR finds look so unimportant, how come Hermione's supposedly stunningly pretty whereas Pansy's dog-ugly?
Not to mention, why was it so important for Ginny to become 'pretty' in order for Harry to notice her?

sabriel April 7 2006, 00:56:27 UTC

because harry is a teenage boy?

gunderpants April 7 2006, 01:00:33 UTC

How do you like your word this time in the morning?

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sabriel April 7 2006, 00:55:05 UTC

Here's the thing: If you're skinny, you really should not complain about your weight. Its like me being white, sometimes I get shit for it, and sometimes I feel like crap about myself because white people oppressed black people, but it doesn't mean I should complain about being white. I have it really, really easy.

It's pretty much a perfect analogy for your situation, only add "in elementary school" after the oppression clause.

sabriel April 7 2006, 01:01:46 UTC

also, haha, didn't want to spam your journal but I just had to point out, you completely imagined that hermione was described as fat when you first meet her, and you connected this with her being unpleasant. It is YOU for whom unplesantness means fatness.