Rush Limbaugh is a crap-spouting pusbag

Think of him the next time you hear someone using "fat people" and "beautiful" in the same sentence.

Media Images

You've heard about those images. Slender - oops, skinny - women on TV and in movies and on magazine covers. Just seeing them forces young girls to become anorexic or bulimic and kill themselves. Happens all the time.

Except that it doesn't. There's no anorexia epidemic. But there is an obesity epidemic. Don't bother looking up the numbers. Just look around you. So I guess the sinister plot by the men who control the media isn't working.

In fact, the women on the screen tend to be lean and athletic, not skinny. (Never mind the grotesque Anne Coulter. She doesn't count anyway.) So I guess the country should be filled with lean and athletic young women, right? Only in my dreams.

Then there are the old media images. That requires a separate post.

Real Men Love Fat Women

I've been spending some time surfing other blogs that deal with fat in some way. I came across one by a woman who says she's fat but her husband is secure enough in his masculinity to love a fat woman. 

Does that mean that a woman who finds this guy repulsive isn't secure in her femininity? Or does it mean that she's experiencing a normal, human, visceral reaction against such a grotesque distortion of the human shape?

Attacking men in the crotch seems to be a common tactic used by women in fat arguments. It's curious that fat men don't use the equivalent tactic. Or is the fat pride/fat acceptance movement mostly a matter of screaming by fat women? Are fat men screaming, too?  As much? As loudly?

Fat People, Thin Spectrum

Judging by the arguments I read online, a lot of fat people think that you're either really fat or really thin. Either you look like them, or you look like a concentration camp inmate. That's one of their favorite phrases, concentration camp inmate.

Guys, there's a really range between those extremes.  There are even words to describe places along that range, words like slender, slim, lean. Those are good words, especially lean. 

Ginormous Beauty Queen

Chloe Marshall was in the news recently. She won a local beauty contest in England and was competing for the Miss England title.

Christ Almighty! Don't wear a bikini, kid, wear a burlap bag.

Fat Pride types went ape over this self-destructive girl. Online, they spewed the usual crap about anorexia and dangerous media images. Guys, fat like this girl is covered with kills a lot more young people than anorexia. She's unhealthy. She's really, really, really unhealthy.

Two and Seven Eighths Men

You know that TV show Two and a Half Men, starring Charlie Sheen, about two brothers and the kid of one of them sharing an apartment? Have you seen the size of that kid? I bet he weighs almost as much as the skinny brother, the one who's supposed to be his father. It's hard to laugh at even his best lines when all you can think is, "Christ, that kid's fat."

Beautiful people. Give us beautiful people on TV and in the movies. It's fantasy. It's not supposed to look like real life.

Fat people aren't beautiful. No matter how much they try to fool themselves and bully the rest of us into joining them in their delusions, they're still not beautiful.