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[cleolinda]

Again, since y'all seemed desperate to get some: Twilight reviews are starting to come in (updated Fandom Lounge entry). Here's one from The Chicagoist, courtesy of my friend Marcus. And Roger Ebert just barely gives it a thumbs up. What I'm getting out of this is that it's not going to set the non-believers alight with cinematic fire, but fans are

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[h4yleyg]

Ah, people suck. A person is wonderful, but put a hundred thousand of them together and give them anonymity, and you've got a nightmare. SM is not fat. Not even in a politically correct way, she's just not. People are just bitchy.

And it really doesn't matter what you look like. You're hilarious and talented and any person who thinks less of you for what you look like isn't really worth having as a fan anyway because you've got hundreds who aren't so shallow.

[cleolinda]

I just actually saw some people talking about her weight in the comments here, not just ONTD (granted, it was a lot more civil here), and while I'm not angry or upset or anything, I just kind of wanted to put that out there. You know, think about what you're saying. Because it's easy to judge someone's looks in a celebrity culture and forget that writers are not people who are paid to look good. They're not professional bodies, if that makes any sense; they're just real-people bodies with professional minds.

[maleficently]

This is one of the many things about internet anonymity that annoys the ever-living-hell out of me. "LOL Fatty" is like the equivalent of "Your mama wears combat boots" on the playground. It's childish, irrelevant and has no actual bearing on the critical assessment of her LOL!writing. It's an argument to use when you have nothing else intelligent to add. (Can you tell I might be sensitive to the issue?)

It's the number one way to get me to stop reading wank though, because as soon as the conversation goes that way, all intelligence is out the window and the trolls take over.

Also, for the record, she is nowhere near fat. She's not even remotely obese looking. She appears to be a fairly healthy weight, with a lovely face and while I don't have much hope for the brain inside, I envy her hair with much envy. She's not fat. I could show them fat. You know, if I allowed pictures of me, ever. Bah.

[havocs_roman]

>>writers are not people who are paid to look good. They're not professional bodies, if that makes any sense;

I think I'm opening a can of worms here, but to be fair... neither are performers. Generally speaking, at least, their job is to perform, not necessarily conform to people's unspoken fantasies, and yet most people think they are fair play for all sorts of abuse from the moment they reach the public eye--unless one's only professional purpose is to look good (whichever notion of "looking good" is at play at a given point), one shouldn't be fair play for any sort of "lol, fatty" comments. Rationally thinking, there aren't all that many professionals up there who who "should" expect criticism for not fitting the current notion of "hotness". It's a sad fact, however, that people will grasp at anything in order to criticise someone they dislike, for whichever reason. There will always be some there finding you "too fat", "too skinny", too tan, too colourblind, whatever

[sweetsyren]

And it really doesn't matter what you look like. You're hilarious and talented and any person who thinks less of you for what you look like isn't really worth having as a fan anyway because you've got hundreds who aren't so shallow.

IAWTC. Sums up my feelings exactly.