On the road to pissing folks off...
Once more, I could make people irate, but...
I've noticed a pattern in recent moons in which a celebrity, or at least a quasi-celebrity, will lose weight and a long line of people will form to talk shit on them for it.
Right off the cuff this strikes me as strange, but I took a step back and thought about it.
First off, the celebs who get this kind of attention are invariably female, which I could find liberating, I suppose, since it seems to indicate that a man's weight is irrelevant, which is fine with me.
Secondly, many of the comments I read or hear ("She looks gross now," "She looks unhealthy," etc.) could equally apply to a woman who unexpectedly put on weight. If, oh, say Mischa Barton added forty or so to the frame, I could reasonably expect to hear how she no longer looks attractive and how unhealthy she must be. The difference is, it is generally considered extremely poor taste to make mention of fat people's weight. From the looks I've been given when doing so, making an unkind reference of a woman's fat ass is roughly equivalent to making fun of retarded babies. Talking shit on thin people is fun for all, apparently.
Which is fine. I understand that and can even embrace it to some extent.
What I don't understand is the apparent hostility that comes with the comments towards the newly thin. People seem genuinely angry about the weight loss celebrities undergo. I've heard positively hateful comments about the likes of Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie, and not because they are talentless, spoiled, idiot bitches, but because they are THIN talentless, spoiled, idiot bitches.
I personally get agitated because the media bludgeons me with images and stories of these people that I don't know, aren't going to know, and don't wish to know, but I could not care less about how much they WEIGH.
I understand personal preference and all, but if some actress I found attractive ended up packing on two too many moon pies I might let loose with a "Ew!", but not a "What the fuck? What is wrong with her? Why would she do that to herself?" which are fairly pedestrian versions of the comments I've read.
My concern with this is not because I'm PC (I'm not) or that I like these gangly bitches (I don't) but I just don't know why anyone else's diet can elicit hostility from a person.
But what do I know...
I've noticed a pattern in recent moons in which a celebrity, or at least a quasi-celebrity, will lose weight and a long line of people will form to talk shit on them for it.
Right off the cuff this strikes me as strange, but I took a step back and thought about it.
First off, the celebs who get this kind of attention are invariably female, which I could find liberating, I suppose, since it seems to indicate that a man's weight is irrelevant, which is fine with me.
Secondly, many of the comments I read or hear ("She looks gross now," "She looks unhealthy," etc.) could equally apply to a woman who unexpectedly put on weight. If, oh, say Mischa Barton added forty or so to the frame, I could reasonably expect to hear how she no longer looks attractive and how unhealthy she must be. The difference is, it is generally considered extremely poor taste to make mention of fat people's weight. From the looks I've been given when doing so, making an unkind reference of a woman's fat ass is roughly equivalent to making fun of retarded babies. Talking shit on thin people is fun for all, apparently.
Which is fine. I understand that and can even embrace it to some extent.
What I don't understand is the apparent hostility that comes with the comments towards the newly thin. People seem genuinely angry about the weight loss celebrities undergo. I've heard positively hateful comments about the likes of Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie, and not because they are talentless, spoiled, idiot bitches, but because they are THIN talentless, spoiled, idiot bitches.
I personally get agitated because the media bludgeons me with images and stories of these people that I don't know, aren't going to know, and don't wish to know, but I could not care less about how much they WEIGH.
I understand personal preference and all, but if some actress I found attractive ended up packing on two too many moon pies I might let loose with a "Ew!", but not a "What the fuck? What is wrong with her? Why would she do that to herself?" which are fairly pedestrian versions of the comments I've read.
My concern with this is not because I'm PC (I'm not) or that I like these gangly bitches (I don't) but I just don't know why anyone else's diet can elicit hostility from a person.
But what do I know...