Comments | kristen729: Horror and Disgust. Please read it, and brace yourself.

kristen729

Horror and Disgust. Please read it, and brace yourself.

Jun 03, 2009 17:29

( You Need to Read This. I want you to read this. )

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This is on-topic, I promise; just needed a little set-up amysawrus June 4 2009, 02:57:44 UTC

I saw a short film (fiction) at USC this semester that detailed the horrors of a battle during the Iraq war with a troop of Marines. It was gritty and very unabashed in its telling. One of the soldiers has never killed anyone, so his fellow soldiers egg him on about it throughout the film. It culminates in the soldiers hearing movement in the bombed out building they're hiding in, so they thrust a grenade in the guy's hand and make him throw it in the room with movement. Turns out it was a civilian woman watching TV ( ... )

Re: This is on-topic, I promise; just needed a little set-up amysawrus June 4 2009, 03:02:03 UTC

I just realized you said you were halfway through with the book. If that book doesn't explain itself I say burn it. Ha.

Re: This is on-topic, I promise; just needed a little set-up kristen729 June 4 2009, 03:26:26 UTC

There are several words you can use, but I guess the technical term is "sizism." That sounds a little clinical and removed for me, so I say "fat hatred" or "fat phobia." Feel free to use whichever appeals to you more. As to sending a letter, I have thought about it, though I feel that would be best served by reading the whole thing, which I really don't want to do at this point. I'm in a serious funk at the moment. And the thing is, there was a preface from the editors. It was just weird fluff though. Nothing about what the contributors were really about. It made me feel blind-sided.

the_k_is_silent June 8 2009, 05:37:31 UTC

Wow. This is awful.

nachdenkliches March 15 2010, 19:07:51 UTC

You know I had never know about sizism before, never even know it existed. I mean I know that society inadvertently pressures women to be thin and beautiful through marketing/advertising. But I agree with you about shooting the woman; why didn't they just overmedicate her? Maybe I'd have to see the film to really get it all.
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