Comments on: Can You Still Zig-A-Zig In A Fat Suit?

By: mo pie

mo pie — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:57:24 +0000

Jays, I had no idea that Victoria Beckham made her appearance on the show sans fat suit. I’m sure you’re right, and that the fat suit idea was dropped. I wonder what happened!

By: Jays

Jays — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:56:04 +0000

So…Is it just me, or does it seem that this episode never aired? The original gimmick for the episode was to display a “surprise” that Victoria Beckham was now fat when she showed for Vanessa Williams’ wedding. However, ABC seems to have aired an episode (instead?) wherein Victoria shows up to the wedding as is SO glamourous that she steals the show from the bride.

Is it just me, or did they rewrite the fat suit out of the show?

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:07:16 +0000

So tired of fat suits.

I hope no one would try to *equate* fat discrimination with racial discrimination. (I don’t think the poster was trying to do that.) I do think there are similarities between black face and the fat suit as comic devices, and I find them both fraught social politics and power.

I once interviewed an actor (for the Fort Worth, Texas theater scene) who was performing in a play called “The Food Chain.” He wore a fat suit, and the character was apparently written for an actor wearing a fat suit. The actor told me that it’s easier to laugh with impugnity at an actor wearing a fat suit than it is to laugh at an actual fat person.

Haven’t thought about that in a while.

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:42:01 +0000

Mari,

For the record, I AM black and once upon a time I was fat. I do understand and know what I’m talking about.

By: Mari

Mari — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:51:59 +0000

Tara, unless you ARE black AND fat, then you really don’t understand.

Fillyjonk, that’s a FACTUAL statistic and given that Forest Gump had an IQ of 75, Americans really don’t want to know what’s going on. I think James Baldwin was right when he said that America was headed towards an apocalypse.

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:52:16 +0000

Mari,

I have said my piece on that matter. Let’s just agree to disagree.

By: Fillyjonk

Fillyjonk — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:42:40 +0000

And what’s even worse is that the average
American IQ is only 115!

You are joking, right?

By: Meghan

Meghan — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:49:46 +0000

Chunky Peanut Butter, thanks for your link to a crappy website containing uncited, unsubstantiated information about what Posh is “promoting,” supposedly not even to the general public but to her girlfriends. Do you seriously surf howcelebsloseweight.com? Why? To get enraged about celebrity stick figures, or to cite what is posted there as factual information?

By: Mari

Mari — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:44:58 +0000

Tara. I’m a size 24 black woman and you CAN definitely compare the fat suit and blackface.

The similiarities are scary…………………………….

And what’s even worse is that the average
American IQ is only 115!

By: Mari

Mari — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:41:04 +0000

If they do that, I WILL stop watching the show.
It’s so sad that the fascist American media can
not live and let live. I guarantee there is a witch
hunt in this country designed to keep Americans
more concerned about their bodies and less about the issues.

I already have mixed messages about America
Ferrara and Sara Rue losing weight(while losing
viewers) in order to make the corporate big-heads
happy.

What is America(pun intended) coming to?