Yes my big folks,
We must embrace food.
no need for scapegoats
no need to brood!

the bigger the body, the bigger the heart.
how’s that for a brand new start?

I wasn’t very offended by the fat suit, to be quite honest. My wife (who is not really in shape but could never be called overweight) was very disappointed in Jon, because she knows that it really hurts me when I feel dehumanized because of my weight (I’m 6′5″ and don’t know how much I weigh, but I wear size 56 pants because most of my weight is abdominal). I didn’t start really feeling like I wanted to avoid TDS for awhile until I noticed a clip on Hulu a few nights later for Mr. Gervais, who I already loathe, and the caption underneath: “Ricky Gervais wants supermarkets to put the cakes through a little door so fat people can’t get to them.”

This is getting old, he sounds like a broken record, he’s said it so many times that people should have noticed by now and started realizing that he’s trying to spread hate and dehumanize a group of people ala “whatever”-ism, shouldn’t they?

Why would one of my personal heroes (and America’s Most Trusted Newsman**) want this person on his show??

*http://calorielab.com/news/2009/01/22/ricky-gervais-fat-jokes-no-surgery/

**http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/22/time-magazine-poll-jon-st_n_242933.html

In fact, I may have to revise what I said earlier, because that’s a very good point. I’ve had it with people like that, too. Idiocy is spouted everywhere and whenever someone points this out, those people say we’re being ‘too PC.’ Bull crap, we just know the difference between funny and ignorant or offensive. So yeah, I’m sick of people getting on stage and using their last diatribe on Stormfront as the basis for their entire act, too!

However, I retain my other point, which was that I don’t think it warrants a post. I think all it deserves is a passing mention in a larger post, at least. At best, an eye roll.

–What you’re implying is that the Marginalised Personâ„¢ is looking for offence where none exists.–

I did NOT say that an offense doesn’t exist. Clearly, one does. In fact I made sure to state that fat suits are a terrible form of humor, even comparing them to using blackface. Not one of us, I’ll bet, likes fat suits.

What I DID say is that I don’t think this deserves a blog post. I’m not the blog owner, but that’s how I see it and it’s my right to disagree just as it’s yours to take offense. Our vitriol is mighty, and how can we hope that people take the movement seriously if we, again, keep spreading it so thin by using nukes to kill mosquitos?

–Once again, you’re disowning your own responsibility, and this is absolutely the crux of any derailment – you just can’t repeat or reinforce it often enough.–

LadyLady, what the fuck are you talking about? “Our own responsibility?” How is this even relevant? So now I’M the one who donned the fat suit and made you feel blue? Me? The 310 pound fat guy? Am I the new perpetrator of this crime, or because of my opinion, am I an accomplice? Or is Punchy to blame now?

You know, since you’re doing such a wonderful job at ignoring our points, I’m just going to go ahead and ignore the rest of the irrelevant yammering that I’m sure you took so much time to copy and paste in the first place.