I wanted to write a long article, but I found a photo on Voat that made it unnecessary.
It’s just so goddam perfect. One civilized, yet devastating way to fight people whose views you find harmful is to parodize and satirize them, largely by finding their real faults and inflating them into ridiculousness.
One realistic way to parodize liberals / lefties / Progressives / feminists / SJWs etc. would be to present them as narcissistic, solipsistic, self-absorbed people with huge and fragile egos who demand that everything should revolve around themselves.
And we don’t even have to do this, because Fat Activists do this “for free” ! They act exactly like a fifth-column operation would, discrediting Progressivism by planting totally ridiculous double agents on them.
The simple fact that feminists tend to be fat would only make, in itself, a weak joke. But when you find they run around parading their fatness, and make it a political goal to make men somehow adore it – imagine it, human beings making it a political goal that other should have a positive opinion of their own personal fsckups! “I have crap for character, now praise me for it, oppressor!” Imagine programmers making it a political goal to convince people that bugs are actually good! And given that the only oppression they actually face in reality is people not finding them attractive (at least in a polite city where people stop making snickering remarks at 13), the very idea that attractiveness could be a political goal also speaks volumes – how feminism is all about an alternative sexual strategy for unattractive women, how Red-Pill theories about “solipsism” and “hamstering” are actually true for at least some women and so on.
But I am getting too analytical here. This is something to be cherished, to enjoyed, laid back , with a glass of wine, as the best comedy ever. Just the very thought of a self-important blubberwhale climbing on a stage and telling everybody with a stern, sincere face how to adore her laziness and gluttony as a way to end the patriarchical opression of women makes me want to roar with laughter. And when you imagine all the gammas nodding sincerely and sadly instead of laughing her off the stage it just becomes so much better.
I just watch this online quasipolitical freak show on Tumblr and basically want to buy all of them an extra large pizza or something, and pat them somewhere where I think their backs may be, for a job well done. My perfect, ideal satire, parody of a liberal, progressive, feminist, just offered voluntarily, without having to invest time and work! It’s glorious, and it is so well made! This is a case of reality being better than imagination really.
Imagine you are directing a satirical stage play and want put the ideas you disagree with into the mouth of a role who looks so obviously un-respectable, having crap for a character, and is generally low-status in a well-deserved way! How do you make it obvious? Poor clothes? Could be just tough luck. You want low-status but middle-class. You have to make their appearance suggest that their lot on life is not so bad, they just used it badly. What is an obviously good candidate for this? That they spend whatever resources they have on sugary slop and porked up. If you want to cast someone in a satirical stage play as a middle-class idiot, you will probably come up with the role of the suburbian fatty. This is why it is so perfect a satire. And adding the plot twist that the suburban fatty is actually on a political campaign to convince people fatties are actually attractive and it is oppressive to think they aren’t – that is such a good satire, that reads like something written by Juvenal.
This is why all this self-satire is so glorious. It is just perfectly written and perfectly directed.
If there are any liberals reading this: this is roughly how you would feel if the media would catch Rush Limbaugh, Tony Abbot and Viktor Orban having gay sex in N@zi uniforms. It is that kind of “All I want now is some popcorn…” type of feeling.
Few people are explicitly rude to fat people–to their faces–after the age of 13 or so, but they are still generally despised by society. Being unattractive has huge consequences for women–no one wants to date them, no one wants to employ them, every interaction is tinged with the fact that the other person thinks they’re disgusting. (When I was very obviously pregnant, I frequently overheard people making comments about how disgustingly fat I was–and at 9 months, I still weighed less than the average American woman!) Fat people know everyone (including themselves) thinks they’re disgusting; many of them absolutely despise themselves for being fat.
I don’t really understand why so many people are fat and getting fatter. (Other than, obviously, certain cancers or medications with weight-gain side effects.) But it seems that people are putting a lot of money and effort into diets and low-fat foods for not a lot of waistline reductions.
FAM doesn’t make sense as a political movement. But if people really can’t change their weight, then it might be better for them to focus on parts of their life that they can change.
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Can’t? Highly doubtful.
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