{"id":3465,"date":"2007-06-19T00:48:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T08:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/19\/i-am-fat-i-am-angry-and-i-am-pissed\/"},"modified":"2014-07-20T12:10:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T19:10:44","slug":"i-am-fat-i-am-angry-and-i-am-pissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3465","title":{"rendered":"I Am Fat, I Am Angry, And I Am Pissed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love this post at Along The Road Home<\/a>. Here’s how it starts:<\/p>\n

There’s a cycle in superhero comics(1) which I am violently tired of seeing.<\/p>\n

Step One: Someone (in this case, Misty Lee(2) in a podcast<\/a>) says something along these lines, “usually, the strongest and loudest protest ((What was being protested, by the way, was the cover to “Heroes For Hire” #13<\/a>; the objection was not to the three superhero women being presented as “attractive,” but that they were presented as helpless victims apparently about be raped by a tenticle monster. –Amp)) over sexy things come from ugly fat girls.” Which is problematic and infuriating for so many reasons.<\/p>\n

Step Two: Someone (in this case, Tamora Pierce(4) in her blog<\/a>(6)) responds in an articulate and often angry manner. Which is wonderful.<\/p>\n

Step Three: Fans everywhere come out of the woodwork to prove that they are not “ugly fat girls” by showing pictures or mentioning their physical stats or whatever.<\/p>\n

Hold up a minute.<\/p>\n

How is that response any better than the original person calling them “ugly fat girls” in the first place?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(You’ll have to click through to the original post to read what Carla’s footnotes refer to).<\/p>\n

Carla’s post touched off this observation at Random Thoughts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

And there is a still more vicious subtext to the idea that women who protest anything to do with “attractive women” are ugly and fat.<\/p>\n

It is that ugly and\/or unattractive women have no right to an opinion<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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