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When you're defending nazi salutes, you're telling me that you're a nazi.
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The only thing a beggar provides you with is a blessing/karma, which has no economic value, although I would still…
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Did you see the study about fat politicians? Fat female politicians are judged less reliable, fat male politicians are judged MORE reliable, than the opposite.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/01/30/2010-01-30_in_fat_pols_we_trust.html
Also, one of your panels should be a self-hating fat person.
The 9th panel (booga booga!!) almost made me snort coffee out of my nose.
This reminds me of something I’ve been wanting to tell you for some time.
I became a feminist after reading some feminist blogs at a really dark time in my life when I was in a very sexist and bleak working environment. Even so, as a fat woman, I wasn’t willing to accept my body, which was societally unacceptable, as a part of me rather than something to be eliminated as much as possible and as quickly as possible.
I was reading feministblogs.org daily, and it was your blogging about fat issues that led me to fat acceptance. Not all at once, and not without having to hash out a lot of underlying stuff in my own head. But your fat blogging was my introduction to the intersections between fat activism and feminism, and I cannot thank you enough for that. Every time I see one of your posts on fat, I breathe a silent sigh of thanks — and I always wonder if that post is starting the wheels in motion in another fat person’s brain, wheels that will eventually bring them to say “I’m a fat person, and that’s the way it is — anyone who doesn’t like it isn’t my friend.”
So….thank you. You have made a very real, tangible difference in my life, every single day of my life. There aren’t words to express the relief and joy I have found since learning to love my fat body.
Wow. Wow. Thank you so much for posting that, Jeanette — you’ve completely made my day.
I laughed at the guy in the last panel who said “fat people are gross” because it reminded me of the anti same sex marriage crusaders who advance that same argument against gay marriage — “it’s just icky and makes me go ewww!”
Would this be an appropriate discussion to post a link to this?
http://jezebel.com/5456561/weigh-less-pay-less-whole-foods-offers-discount-based-on-bmi
It’s stuff like this that just drives me insane.
Hey, Amp, it’s nice to hear you actually made a difference to someone, isn’t it? Congratulations.
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I gotta vent. And since the primary here is a cartoonist, here’s where I’m venting. The Chicago Tribune shrank all the comics a few months ago, making them all harder to read. Now, to save $, they’re actually shrinking the paper, and since if they shrink the comics anymore they’d become unreadable they’ve decided to make a change. They’re getting rid of some of the comics and are also going to enlarge some of the comics to make them more readable.
Staying:
Blondie
Cathy
Classic Peanuts (OMG, the man’s DEAD already)
Dick Tracy
Broomhilda
Mr. Boffo
Going:
Sylvia
Watch Your Head
IMNSHO these lists should be reversed. Although after the last round of shrinkage Sylvia became almost unreadable about 1/2 of the time due to Hollander’s fairly busy drawing style.
WYH is a bunch of students at a traditionally black college. They had already dropped Boondocks a while back. You’d think they could keep more than one minority-oriented strip, especially since it’s actually funny once in a while. If they were going to drop a minority-oriented strip, they should be dropping Raising Hector, which mostly is a vanilla family situation comic with a Hispanic family. Cathy actively makes me gag. Blondie stopped being funny somewhere around the Korean War. Mr. Bofffo makes enough “fat” jokes to actively offend those sympathizing with the subject of the comic that Amp put up for comment for this thread (which includes me).
I appreciate your indulgence.
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I get Chicago Tribune here and yes, “Raising Hector” is awful. I like “Scary Gary” though. I hope that one’s staying.
I love your artwork, Barry. I hope you do more of these cartoons, but I understand you’re busy with the graphic novel.