Sunday, September 13, 2015

'shaming' fat people

Comedian Nicole Arbour has raised some hell by calling out fat people in a six-minute video that got so much attention that YouTube shut it down for a while. Yup, it's insulting in one sense, but it is also laced with some serious and altruistic focus. I particularly liked Arbour's self-deprecating observation that it was a blonde pointing these things out.


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  1. I went to the youtube page for it, and apparently they had to disable comments. I loved her style and editing, and the message wasn't wrong either. But i suspect it's the modern market place, the availability of food, behind the "obesity epidemic". There was a time when only rich people were fat.

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  2. ... everyone is 'differently-challenged' or 'differently-gifted' I guess.

    If this verbal high jinx keeps up, we're all going to fly up our own assholes and disappear.

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  3. It grieves me that humor or honesty should hurt someone. But it also grieves me that we might lose our sense of reality, responsibility, and humor.

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