Comments | blackiestark: "Now I can't be a man no more, now I got to deal with THIS shit."

blackiestark

"Now I can't be a man no more, now I got to deal with THIS shit."

Mar 08, 2009 10:29

I get so tired of the media's most popular, intelligent, and supposedly open-minded personalities -- news personalities -- going on and on about how fat Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore are. It's not that they aren't, it's just that I have trouble seeing how that has anything to do with their politics or their ideals. I'm just not getting it.

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ysidro March 8 2009, 18:59:01 UTC

Unfortunately "fat people" is still on the dwindling list of acceptable targets in our society. And that's just wrong. Yet I don't see a way out of it without a massive change in the media. :-\

blackiestark March 10 2009, 16:51:15 UTC

I think it was liberal columnist/cartoonist Ted Rall who said that fat people and Asians are the only two minorities left in American society that people publicly mock.

ertchin March 15 2009, 03:00:46 UTC

First of all, thanks for writing this. I usually don't throw in comments when I'm a week behind, but it needed saying.

And now, I'm going to wag my finger at you a little. Sorry. But fat people and Asians are far from being the only two minorities left in American society that people publicly mock. There are people who are "too" thin. And Latin@s. And little people. I'll stop at three.

(EDIT: And I do realize you're just quoting Ted Rall. Hence the finger-wagging being very light.)

jodea March 8 2009, 19:02:03 UTC

Thank fucking you!

blackiestark March 10 2009, 16:51:26 UTC

You're fucking welcome!

bealsabubbette March 8 2009, 19:18:17 UTC

i think it's a shame that it's perceived as okay to marginalize ANYONE based on some random characteristic.

i like to keep my hate specific and action based - as in rush being a windbag full of spurious data or a raging pyschopathic conservative.

the fact that someone is *insert characteristic* is not sufficient cause for me to pick on them. if it were, i'd have no friends, since just about everyone that i know belongs to some group or another with a bunch of inappropriate jokes attached.

soundwave106 March 9 2009, 01:16:30 UTC

Among some circles of media, "political punditry" is nothing more than a windbagged insult-fest with no insight whatsoever.

bealsabubbette March 9 2009, 03:08:53 UTC

yes, and i shall hate on those whining dumbasses for that exact reason. dumb is dumb is dumb. has nothing to do with anything else.

blackiestark March 10 2009, 16:51:56 UTC

Exactly. Welcome to My Point. Population: us.

wordweaverlynn March 8 2009, 20:05:08 UTC

Nicely done.

blackiestark March 10 2009, 16:52:13 UTC

That means a lot, coming from you.

_jeremiad March 8 2009, 23:41:36 UTC

Huh. I did not know this.

Thank you for this post.

t_rex March 10 2009, 14:31:38 UTC

Here is a post, with a link to an article, that you and Rob may both find interesting.

http://homasse.livejournal.com/1087339.html?view=5965163#t5965163

_jeremiad March 10 2009, 16:17:25 UTC

Thank you kindly.

blackiestark March 10 2009, 16:58:19 UTC

It's possible having a thin President has something to do with this issue gaining new awareness... but I remember too well how Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton was marginalized as a fat, stupid, inbred hillbilly, because he was from Arkansas and ate at McDonald's. (Don't even get me started on the class and region prejudice that goes on in this country.)

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