Have you ever noticed that it is per­fectly accept­able to make fun of and degrade peo­ple who are fat? Think about it for a sec­ond. When­ever a movie needs to show that some­one was pre­vi­ously unat­trac­tive there are flash­backs of him/her being fat (think Mon­ica (Court­ney Cox) on Friends).  I was watch­ing (some­what begrudg­ingly) The Seeker on the WB and the main char­ac­ter was forced to enter­tain a King’s unat­trac­tive sis­ter. Of course she was over­weight and to add insult to injury, she was sex­u­ally aggres­sive and des­per­ate because of course no man had every touched her before. Unfor­tu­nately, this priv­i­lege does not end with Hollywood.

I was read­ing an arti­cle about how Gaboure Sid­bie (of Pre­cious fame) slapped Chris Rock because he grabbed her butt when she stood to accept an award. Even worse than his dis­gust­ing misog­y­nis­tic behav­ior are the com­ments that peo­ple left on the… Con­tinue reading

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