01.08.08 (1:54 pm) posted by Genia
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I just received an announcement regarding the premiere of Lifetime's latest made-for-TV movie Queen Sized.
This email comes at the perfect time because last night, while cruising the blogosphere, I noticed an insulting
"anorexic" comment on a popular blog authored by a plus-sized
female author. The comment annoyed me because one of plus-sized
blogger's readers took a jab at a skinny conservative girl -- just for laughs. Bad form, ladies. Bad form.
Making fun of skinny girls is no nicer than making
fun of fat girls.
Before, I get started on my fat girl political rant, let me first offer a quick synopsis of Queen Sized:
Overweight Fat girl gets nominated for homecoming court as a joke. Fat girl gets laughed at
by skinny people. Fat girl enters competion and becomes a celebrity, but it changes who she really is on the inside.
Blah. Blah. Blah. View the clip below.
That's out of the way, so here we go. . .
I'm no more impressed by Queen Sized than I was by Mo'Nique's
F.A.T. Chance Beauty Pageant.
Any program that promotes the idea that being overweight is ok (as long as you love what's inside) is like handing a fat girl
with clogged arteries a fuckin' Big Mac and saying, "Hey, this will make you feel better." It's not healthy to be overweight.
If you can provide evidence to the contrary, please enlighten me. And hurry up, 'cuz
I'm sick of counting calories, carbs, fat, and worrying about when I can squeeze in my next workout.
Yeah, it sucks to be fat. And yeah, it sucks to have the kids in school make fun of you. But, in a country where
childhood obesity has tripled since 1970, there are very few fat
girls walking the school hallways alone. She has a big group of fat friends with her. You know it. I know it. And they're all looking at a possible heart attack, stroke, or weight
related diabetes by the age of 35.
On the flip side, skinny girls get grief too. Women are either too fat or too skinny. Where's the happy medium? I have a very thin friend
who is sick of hearing, "You need
to eat a cheeseburger" usually from the girls who have probably eaten more cheeseburgers than they should have. I told her to stop defending her
skinny-ness; there's no need
for her to respond with "I eat. I eat a lot. I just can't gain weight" ever again. It's not her responsibility to make the fat girls feel better about themselves.
Accusing a skinny girl of being anorexic is just as bad as accusing a fat girl of sitting too long on the couch with twinkies.
This country needs to seriously address obesity as well as anorexia
-- neither of which is good for the body. There ain't a Lifetime movie in the world that will successfully combat an
eating disorder of any kind, but a good cry (or laugh) about both fat people and skinny people
will make ya feel better for about 90 minutes.
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