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November 27, 2006
Obese Moonbats Learn How to Throw Their Weight Around
The victim studies movement that is steadily replacing anything resembling a useful education on college campuses has found a new area to expand: fat studies.
Fat studies is an exercise in unmitigated moonbattery, as an approving New York Times makes clear:
Nestled within the humanities and social sciences fields, fat studies explores the social and political consequences of being fat. [...]
Proponents of fat studies see it as the sister subject — and it is most often women promoting the study, many of whom are lesbian activists — to women's studies, queer studies, disability studies and ethnic studies. In many of its permutations, then, it is the study of a people its supporters believe are victims of prejudice, stereotypes and oppression by mainstream society.
Research topics include how fat people are marginalized, how they are insensitively blamed for their own gluttony and sloth, how doctors exaggerate the health risks of obesity, etc.
Ivory tower moonbats are going through all the usual motions, expressing skepticism about the "war on obesity" and discussing "weightism" in law school tort classes. The anthology "Fat Studies Reader" collects scholarly research on the weighty subject of being fat. One chapter is entitled, "Jiggle in My Walk: The Iconic Power of the Big Butt in American Pop Culture."
A 29-year-old named Stefanie Snider is planning to write a dissertation for the University of Southern California on, in the Times' words, "the intersection of queer and fat identities in the United States in the 20th century." Size 18 burlesque dancer Cookie Woolner, who at age 32 is also still a graduate student, wrote her undergraduate thesis at Hampshire College on "positive representations of fat women in fanzines and underground media."
Meanwhile, tuition skyrockets, college students are found wanting in basic skills, and taxpayers are bled dry on behalf of institutions of supposedly higher learning.
Even some professors are developing a dim awareness of how far they have wandered into the realm of self-parody. Wonders University of Colorado social psychologist Joseph B. Juhasz:
Certainly we have not reached a point where we can do away with queer studies or race studies or women's studies. But where do you draw the line? Is there going to be a department of man-boy-love studies? Do we need polygamy studies? At which point do you say, enough already?
We should have started saying it at least 40 years ago.
Hat tip: PirateBallerina
Posted by Van Helsing at November 27, 2006 7:42 PM
Comments
PUT DOWN THE FORK!
Posted by: nanc at November 27, 2006 8:12 PM
"the intersection of queer and fat identities in the United States in the 20th century."
Sounds like the two 'womyn' who lived next door when I moved into this neighborhood.
Posted by: V the K at November 27, 2006 8:13 PM
p.s. that'll be ten grand, thank you.
Posted by: nanc at November 27, 2006 8:13 PM
Hey, why not change your forum name to, Sizeist Sadist. That's what you are. Oh, look at you, putting people down because they're not perfect like you right? You're a sick person, there is no cure for people like you, who feed off of the sadness of others.
Posted by: Jackie at November 27, 2006 8:17 PM
Um, Jackie, no. The point isn't judging people for being fat or queer or whatever. The point is that being fat, or having an eating disorder, or having a fetish for dressing in clothing of the opposite sex is just a personality quirk. It is only through moonbattery that such irrelevant quirks are elevated to the status of 'culture,' '____________ studies' or protected political group.
Unfortunately, I think you're far too dim (simple-minded) to understand that.
Posted by: V the K at November 27, 2006 8:30 PM
The only sick people Jackie are the people who march through the streets of San Francisco during gay "pride" parades and the moonbats who think thier lifestyle should be mainstreamed and pushed onto a society that historically doesn't approve (and shouldn't approve for a Christian society). Homosexuality is against nature and there should be no celebration of it.
Posted by: Chris at November 27, 2006 8:56 PM
yeah - when are they going to do a study on "well-adjusted, thin, native american/irish, working, protestant (in spite of the odds) women who've escaped traditional trappings"?
jeez - there's always some lardbutt who'll come in and try to rain on my parade...
Posted by: nanc at November 27, 2006 9:10 PM
Ooh, hit a nerve there, Jackie? Would I be mistaken in thinking that you're a wide-ride yourself?
Or would it be more PC to say, "majoring in HoHo Studies?"
A modest proposal: instead of creating these departments piecemeal, why not just create a "Department of Loser Studies" and subsume any further victim subgroups within it?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at November 27, 2006 9:36 PM
Geez,
Im a fat dude and I think its totally ridiculous. Fat Studies? As if college students dont have enough crap to learn as it is that they'll never use. Instead of streamlining education to turn out BETTER graduates, colleges are making students take puke-enducing garbage on the premise that it teaches them tolerance or some such nonsense.
Posted by: Brooklyn Red Leg at November 27, 2006 11:07 PM
Overweight is one thing. The woman on the right of that picture is overweight, and still probably quite healthy. The other three? They make her look thin. They'll probably be dead in a few years, I'd wager, and I doubt they have anything approaching a bearable quality of life. They're just the other end of the scale from anorexics.
Posted by: Archonix at November 28, 2006 3:07 AM
Ack! Van Helsing, you ruined my breakfast with that photo. And my lunch and dinner as well.
Posted by: Mike Austin at November 28, 2006 4:31 AM
When are you guys going to catch on that the modern university is little more than a glorified health spa/diploma mill for the upper classes to replace themselves every generation?
Does it really matter what they study?
Quick, what was John Kerry's major in college? Or Al Gore for that matter. Does anybody know?
Posted by: phil at November 28, 2006 5:13 AM
John Kerry's must have been Foot in Mouth Studies, and Al Gore's was probably Chicken Little Studies.
Posted by: Pam at November 28, 2006 6:15 AM
MY EYES! MY EYES!!!!!
I think that photo may have caused temporary blindness.
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at November 28, 2006 6:41 AM
Speaking of obese moonbats, Pat Buchanan Blames the Crafty J-o-o-s for Poisoning Russian Dissident and Framing Putin. No wonder Patty has become such a hero to the anti-American left.
Posted by: V the K at November 28, 2006 6:48 AM
A toast to Rubens
Southpark "Dead Friends Sketch"
South Park. A new store is seen: "The Friend Store", with Friends 4 Sale. Cartman opens the door and enters hauling a large brown sack. He approaches the counter, behind which is Kyle. "Buy 1 Get 1 Free!!"]
Kyle: Can I help you?
Cartman: Yes. I wish to complain about the friend I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Kyle: Oh, yes, the Kenny. What's wrong with him?
Cartman: I'll tell you what's wrong with him my lad. [pulls a dead and tattered Kenny from the sack] He's DEAD!
Kyle: Nonono, he's uuh, he's resting.
Cartman: Look asshole, I know a dead friend when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now!
Kyle: Nono, hes not dead, he's resting. Remarkable friend Kenny, isn't he? Great loyalty.
Cartman: Loyalty doesn't enter into it! He's stone DEAD!
Kyle: Nonononono, he's resting.
Cartman: All right then, if he's resting, I'll wake him up. [screams at Kenny's corpse] HELLO KENNY! I'VE GOT TEN DOLLARS FOR YOU KENNY!
Kyle: [walks up to the corpse and nudges it] There, he moved.
Cartman: No he didn't, that was you hitting him!
Kyle: I never…
Cartman: Yes, you did!
Statue 1: [Michelangelo's David pops up] No, he didn't. [drops down]
Cartman: Yes he-! [realizes something's wrong] What was that?
Kyle: What was what?
Statue 2: [Venus leans in] Why, nothing. Go back to bed. [moves out]
Cartman: [perplexed] What the hell's going o-? [notices someone else] Oooh, it's YOU! [approaches the camera] Alright buddy, you stop that right now! This is our show! [A hand picks him up and out of the store] Wha-ah?
Terry: [a cutout, with the left hand holding Cartman, mimics him.] Hey, I'm not fat, I'm big-boned!
Statue 2: [now in Terry's right hand] No you're not, you're bleedin' fat!
Terry: [mimics Cartman] You shut up, hippy!
Cartman: Put me down!
Statue 1: [now in Terry's other right hand] Hold on, hold on.
Statue 2: Tell the little fat kid to piss off!
Terry: [mimics Cartman] I'm not fat I'm big boned!
Cartman: Aaa-
[a giant foot steps on them all - splat]
[End of sketch. The camera is back in the office with Trey and Matt]
Posted by: Farmer John at November 28, 2006 11:44 AM
