But it’s the same sound track.
My apologies for stealing a line from Graham Parker…but it fits.
My blog is nearly two years old now. ::sniff:: They just grow up so fucking fast.
Over the course of this nearly two years, I’ve had quite a number of rants about how the overwieght are often harshly judged or ridiculed or dismissed.
Well…here we go again.
I read a Cracked article. (If you haven’t visited the Cracked website, do yourself a favor and read a few articles. BAHAHAHA. You’ll be finished in a year or two. I really DID try to find the specific article to link back to, but I couldn’t find it. This was two days ago. I ended up spending a couple hours reading other articles. I’m not getting sucked back into that or this post will NEVER get written.
Anyway, the article was (I think this is right) Five Actresses We Consider Fat.
I was annoyed right off the bat. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. Why do we say that? Why would you want to fuck a horse? Does this saying advocate beastiality? Who started this saying?
The list had on the people you would expect to see..mostly ridiculous. And then I got to Christina Hendricks.
Woah Woah Woah WOAH!!
Christina Hendricks?
Let me make a disclamier. I am not a lesbian. I love my husband and am a big fan of all his parts. That being said, Christina Hendricks makes me a little gay. She is so freaking HOT.
Christina Hendricks isn’t skinny. But the opposite of ‘not skinny’ is miles away from FAT. She has curves that SCREAM girly girl. I would LOVE to be built like her. 
Is this what we say? Unless you have the body of a skinny 10 year old boy, then you’re fat? It just makes no sense at all. And we fucking buy into this shit.
It reminded of a woman I worked with in Wichita, Kansas. I was a consultant and this woman ran the IT department. A very LARGE IT department, probably 300+ employees in IT alone. I went out to lunch with her and the director I reported to a number of times. They were both transplants from Manhattan. During one lunch just before the holidays, this woman asked if I would be traveling over the holiday. I said that I was. I said that my family was heading East to spend time with my parents.
She chuckled and said, “Unless it’s east of the Hudson, then it’s not East”.
So, I said, we were traveling in a direction that was very much like traveling east to see my family. She wasn’t as amused by that as I was.
This fat thing reminded me of that conversation. The EAST is comprised of the area east of the Hudson..nowhere else. And if you are NOT SKINNY..then you are fat.
Well, I don’t WANT to be skinny. I want to be thinner than I am, but I have no interest in being skinny. I like curves. I even like my curves the way they are now. I could do without some of the bulges, but still..there isn’t anything wrong with having girly curves.
Is this ever going to change?
If you hear someone making an outrageous statement..you know..like Christina Hendricks is fat..then gently and politely point out HOW FUCKING STUPID THAT IS.
Thank you.
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Hendricks is probably the sexiest woman on film right now, no doubt. Her curves are smoking hot, and I’ve had a serious girl crush on her since seeing her in Firefly. Mostly naked. For 30 seconds… lol. Seriously, the “good Bible” scene- hot!
I will personally kick the butt of the next person who dares call such a beautiful, sexy woman fat in my presence.
Yay! butt only indulge in the butt kicking if you’re gonna win. I don’t want you getting a black eye on my say so.
AGREED! Our standards, especially for women, are extreme. I would love to say that I never get sucked in by those standards, but that would be a lie. I am working on it though.
But the moral of the story is that we all need to change they way we look at our bodies and especially how we objectify and judge women. And pointing out that a curvy women is very far away from being fat is just the tip of this iceberg. Well said!
Thank you!!
And I’m working on it as well..it’s hard to overcome..
I hate this stuff too. It really bothers me that there is this standard that SKINNY IS SEXY or SKINNY IS HEALTHY. It’s so isn’t! There is such a think as a healthy, athletic body and that doesn’t necessarily mean that person is fat.
Quick story: my sister-in-law is the skinniest person I know. Seriously, twigs for legs. She must be a size 00 or buy clothes in the kids’ section. I probably weigh 30 pounds more than her but I am million times fitter than her! My boyfriend was showing her how to do kettlebell exercises and she couldn’t even lift the 20 pound kettlebell over her head. I can bench press 75 pounds.
I’ll take athletic over skinny any day!
absolutely!!
I read an article that claimed Jennifer Lawrence was fat. Yep, the incredibly healthy and fit girl who played Katniss on Hunger Games was called fat.
I like to remind people that they themselves are not the most perfect individual on the planet and I bet their Mother, Wife and/or daughters would just be disgusted to hear them speak of a woman in that way.
Preach it, sister!
Here is the article I think
http://www.cracked.com/funny-3113-fat-girls/
Some times I just want to tell people to mind there own business. Why is the size of some gals hips worthy of so much attention? I say to cracked get a hobby!
Yeah..people can be quite the annoying bunch. The article wasn’t bad, though..it was pointing out how silly it was to call these actors fat.