Fatism In The Wild
May 13th, 2010
I was driving to a meeting tonight, and flipped through my radio presets. When I got to Live 105, I heard a promo that went something like this:
Music was originally used by cavemen… to drive fat chicks away.
Just a throwaway bit, but it pissed me off. The implication that music is for men, and the casual “ha, ha, no fat chicks!” humor.
It reminds me of the morning show they used to have, whose sports reporter was an awesome zaftig chick (hell yeah) but whose male DJs still made tons of “hyuck hyuck, fat chicks are gross” jokes.
The world? Makes me tired sometimes.
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Wait, what? “Music was made by cavemen to drive fat chicks away”
It doesn’t even make SENSE as a “fat-chick” dig. If you’re going to insult and dehumanize me, at least make sense! Unless the first music cavemen played was Nickleback or The Fray. Then I’d be driven away right quick.
(For what it’s worth, in the past year I’ve wanted to buy a t-shirt that says “No Fat Chicks” and wear it around. I think it would go well with my “I <3 my Penis" shirt.)
Obviously those idiots have never seen the Venus of Willendorf. Back in the “caveman” days, the fatter women were the most likely ones to be fertile, and to be able to support a pregnancy. And that was what was important then.
But I agree with you on the world making us tired.
Why would music drive fat women away when fat women have no trouble producing music?
The explanation they’d give, undoubtedly, is “hurr u r a faty rnt u? Thinking about humor is HAAARD! GET AN SENZE UV HYOOMURZ!!!”
Yeah, and I listen to radio stations not for the music, but for the obnoxious disk jerks, announcers and commercials. Take a hint from NPR already.
I forget what the lame joke was but I’ve had the boycott going on Live 105’s morning show for years.
I REALLY wonder when guys (not MEN, but guys) will discover that women are 3-dimensional, living creatures who don’t cease to exist when they (the guys) are not around.
Basically, guys, WE DO NOT EXIST FOR YOU!
I am so sick of this “fat chicks are your punishment” shtick that pretty much every entertainment medium clings to. We’re only attractive if you’ve had too much to drink. And then your friends harass you endlessly for it for YEARS. Having sex with us is mystifying, obviously, because how is it even POSSIBLE? We are depicted as throw-aways, the only girls you chase after all the “hot” girls in the bar tell you no.
I’m just so fed up with this crap. It’s heartless, cowardly, juvenile “humor” that does nothing but perpetuate the idea that we as fat women are worthless.
Yeah, I haven’t listened to commercial radio in a very long time now and I don’t miss it for a second. iPod-based solution for me!
It’s been a long time since I have taken anything a radio DJ says seriously. Except Electra from Q101 Chicago, because she’s cool.
I’ve worked in radio and it’s even worse working with these guys. A couple of years ago I worked at a station and before meetings the overweight. bald, old pd and the overweight, short, bald promotions guy would spend the first 5 minutes talking about how hot this chick and that chick is. Don’t get me started on how they hire the very thin, overly-madeup girl over the one that actually is smart and has talent!