Ugh. Today is already fired

Oct 27, 2010 15:22

*Just a warning to all of my lovely readers out there. If I hear you whining about how hard it is being white, I will have to throttle down my desire to punch you repeatedly in the face. Alternately, I will just throttle you. Ditto with how tough straight people have it, how it isn't fair that all the good parking spaces have handicapped markers, ( Read more... )

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bluestocking October 27 2010, 19:32:16 UTC
I have a love/hate relationship with Mike and Molly. I applaud that they've got a show about overweight people and how they're struggling with that. The two main characters are sweet and their interaction works.

But there's a ton of fat jokes, and I don't get that. The supporting cast is horrid (and uniformly thin), and I don't get that either. Which means now I'm watching the show *because* the two main characters are overweight, and that seems as crappy and cliched as watching other shows because the characters adhere to some other cultural standard.

Bah.

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shadowravyn October 27 2010, 19:45:56 UTC
I'd never even heard of the show till that article, so I can't comment on the quality of the show or lack thereof.

As for watching because of some kind of cultural standard, though... I've got mixed feelings on that. Watching a supporting a show that has minority leads (and overweight counts as minority in Hollywood), I can see a lot of reasons why you would: to support the show so it leads to more, to see how that minority is being depicted, to finally see people who look like you being shown as the lead instead of the sidekick/source of amusement/love interest/convenient death to motivate the noble white guy...

Kind of a "it may not be good, but at least it's there" thing. I don't know. I shall have to PONDER THIS FURTHER.

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bluestocking October 27 2010, 22:28:27 UTC
I freely admit that I started watching the show because of the cultural standard - but at some point, it needs to be a good show in order for me to keep watching.

If nothing else, the fat jokes are a *huge* turnoff. I assume they're in there to give us an emotional tie to the lead characters and to make it "realistic", but when it's your best friend making the jokes it just comes off as lameass.

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tinylegacies October 27 2010, 19:36:04 UTC
I love you, Nu <3

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not_from_stars October 27 2010, 19:36:07 UTC
Again you do things that make me love you. :)

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hntrpyanfar October 27 2010, 19:50:32 UTC
<3 Go Go Thesis Woman! :D

And I love you, Nuance.

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hntrpyanfar October 27 2010, 20:43:04 UTC
Did I mention that the sheer concentrated vapid of the Marie Claire blogger made me want to stab out my eyes with yellow tips? AAAUUUGGGGHHH!!!

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Topher's Dreams teampeeta October 27 2010, 19:50:46 UTC
His dreamscape has started invading my own. I have had a few terrifying nightmares I've remembered over the last 3 months or so and haven't remembered a single dream since the age of 15.

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