Vogue, Fatties, and Stupidity

This morning I wrote an email to the peeps over at Jossip in response to one of their Monday columns. In the fluff piece they wrote: Now Conde Nast has become the whipping boy for the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, whose agenda sounds even more garish than the queer community. They want Wintour to recognize fatties are people too, even if they have the body weight of several.

My email:

Subject: Anna Wintour & Jossip on Fatties
Dear Jossip:

I read your column on Monday regarding Anna Wintour and I wanted to applaud it's brave honesty. It's unusual for "jossip" columnists to recognize the connection between fat people and gay people. Usually it's only activists who want to claim that these are related forms of oppression. But Jossip had the good sense to see that both gay people and fat people are connected in the sense that they don't deserve to live or be happy the way they are. As Jossip would seem to imply, the real problem with New York would be it's diversity. Lot's all follow the lead of Jossip's column and put down the people who really don't deserve to be people anyways. I'm not sure why. They just don't.

Many Thanks!

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yeah, anyhow...Ha ha - fat people are so unglamorous. The platform of recognizing the humanity in everyone is "garish." One is being such an ethical and respectful human being by making snap judgments about who people are based on qualities that that they really can't change, NOT. Sure, most people who identity as gay can probably get it up and bump uglies with someone of the opposite gender (just as some queers will probably deign to f*uck republicans) - but this logic of sexual preference "choice" and it's concomitant moral garbage is exactly what gets applied to fat people who are seen as failures for not being thin. Some fat people can go on diets and lose weight little for a while. But, hello - over ninety percent of diets fail! I wonder what the "straight" conversion camps are. What they don't cite in the original article is Sandy's response to those who claim concern regarding fat people needing to lose weight for their own good, she says ""How do dislike and concern become mixed up to be the same thing? That's just garbage." At least the people at Jossip in their ever present bitchiness don't even bother with concern - they just present a disdainful dislike.

I'd rant some more about the chub & bear population in the gay community and the pigheadedness of the body fascists who imagine they are the heart and soul of the gay community... but i'm late for class.