random media bitch
Oct. 20th, 2004 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keryxI think MSNBC - and in fact, all internet news - should replace its television writing with TWOP.
Then I wouldn't have to put up with stupid articles [purporting to dissect the new "fat people on TV" trend - GASP - and forwarded to me from the DTMWSIMB list] claiming that the purpose of Roseanne was to "legitimatize the lives of the obese" or that the show is "remembered more as reflecting stereotypes of fat folk as funny and low-class" than anything else. The big thing with that show was always reality and the class issue. We only see it through a fat lens now because we're wearing Obesity Crisis! Egads! glasses.
Also, a side note to the guy who wrote this pfiffle: no one cares that you're fat, dude. Get over yourself.
Then I wouldn't have to put up with stupid articles [purporting to dissect the new "fat people on TV" trend - GASP - and forwarded to me from the DTMWSIMB list] claiming that the purpose of Roseanne was to "legitimatize the lives of the obese" or that the show is "remembered more as reflecting stereotypes of fat folk as funny and low-class" than anything else. The big thing with that show was always reality and the class issue. We only see it through a fat lens now because we're wearing Obesity Crisis! Egads! glasses.
Also, a side note to the guy who wrote this pfiffle: no one cares that you're fat, dude. Get over yourself.