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Any of you seen the preview for that "Date Movie" movie? If you have [You can always go watch trailer on the internets if you haven't.], did you think the lengthy fat suit sequence at the beginning was another ridiculous fat joke, a satire of size-acceptance or a satire of fat jokes? Some combination of them all? Something else entirely?

I thought the 'Scary Movie' series were quite good parodies of the latest Hollywood schlock, so my leaning was to see that sequence as... well, meta. And maybe a sign that the confluence of the fat movement and anti-fat bile has reached a new level of cultural relevance where, like everyone knows about it. Fat suits are all over the damned place: people have started using them to bully people into workouts, and to "understand" fat patients - nevermind that, ya know, being fat and wearing sandbags have almost nothing in fucking common. Someone else thinks it's just another fat joke; what do you think?

on a lighter note...

I've decided that Firefly fanfic is my new magic anti-stress treatment. I know some of y'all pay more attention to such things than I do so - please, feed my relaxation and point me to the good stuff.

Due to tragic lack of Firefly iconnage (which you are also, of course, welcome to remedy), this post is sponsored by my Zaphodic pick me up icon.