I surely agree that actively promoting morbid obesity is evil.
But I don't have a wife, and I am more than willing to state that a vast majority of fat people have serious character issues and a marked tendency toward greed.
I knew a Ginormous fat girl, daughter of a Drama teacher at our college.
Always with this weird overdramatic bearing I most remember accepting an invitation from her roommate to visit and being pistol whipped and robbed in the process of five Black guys who were there to rob the Drama Queen of her Cocaine, which I had no idea she was crazy enough to be dealing as a young girl with no sense in the early seventies.
She was just quite creepy, but we went to Junior High together, so I was always aware of her, as were most people our age because she was quite legendary.
One more snapshot: She is once again in business, this time in an even Blacker neighborhood, and she gets popped.
So, she brings in a narc, makes a controlled buy from her live in boyfriend and he goes to prison and she skates.
Then she moved to an exclusive resort town and lorded that over the citizens of our post industrial backwater before finally, in her early fifties moving to Hollywood and quickly snaring a bit part in a major feature as " Fat woman walking down the street".
I still don't know why they shot it .
That's all it was, the camera following her down a sidewalk for about a full block.
Then she died shortly after.
My other experiences don't make a lot more sense, and while I am sure there are fat folk who are good folk, in the main I don't feel badly for casting it as a character flaw, I believe on balance, it absolutely is.
I'm guessing that the late great Jackie Gleason's role of Reggie Van Gleason III would be attacked by the woke army when he approached an overweight woman by proclaiming " BOYYYYY ARE YOU FAT !"
Greetings to your wife but she is blessed with a husband like you, do not give in-Widerstand- the world would not be a better place with more women in politics rather the contrary if that is to be imagined, by the way according to Milton, the snake went to Eve and not Adam with full intent and yes great success!
Ben, it was interesting to hear about your wife's input. You strike me as an exceptionally mean and hateful person. It sounds like you don't let that poison your relationship, and I give you credit for that. I also give you credit for an interesting scope of information and ideas. I suspect you also scratch an "anger itch" in my psyche. I think it is useful to be exposed to someone who elicits ambiguity in me. I wonder if your personae is somewhat manufactured for clicks or if you strongly believe everything you say. I suspect the quantity of bile you share could be internally painful to you, but maybe not. So, ambivalent or not, inconsistent or not, I keep looking forward to your posts.
What has truly made me loathe the fatties among us even more is their recent victory over Southwest Airlines, where they now get a free seat if their “spillover” warrants it. Now, I doubt that will last, given the pushback SWA is likely to get, but it was still a win for them.
Ben’s bile is refreshing to me. Too many people play polite games when a slap in the face is necessary.
And lest anyone pretend otherwise, you know you hope against hope that an empty seat next to you on a plane will not be filled with some behemoth whose rolls will be pressed against you the entire flight.
Much like Billy Blazjowski from Night Shift, I am an idea man. Charge passengers per pound and have a few double wide seats available for the “horizontally challenged”. Now the body “positivists” can’t complain about discrimination, it’s a weight to thrust and fuel consumption argument.
If one is charging passengers based on body mass, that is in fact discrimination. And that discrimination is entirely rational. So let's acknowledge that some forms of discrimination are perfectly reasonable, and in fact laudable. You're bumping into the notion of "illegal discrimination." Make no mistake the woke and the body positivists want to make any form of discrimination based on body mass illegal. The issue is that such discrimination should not be illegal for moral reasons that the woke of course reject because they believe humans should have no agency in their own affairs.
Ah, but everyone has mass, there are no “massless” humans boarding a plane. And mass has an impact on various aspects of flight, it’s why everyone doesn’t sit on the same side of a plane. Moving a higher mass requires additional resources, like shipping a package. UPS, et al. charge more the heavier the package, correct? Why should moving a human not have similar pricing? You want to pay less, lose some mass. And since everyone is paying the same rate per kilogram let’s say, how is it discriminatory? If there were different rates for different passengers, I could see it.
It is framed as helping the fat person, but have you ever been the person jammed in next to them? I really suspect that they are more concerned with not crushing the normal sized. It really sucks to be jammed in next to a big person and why should the neighbor suffer?
I have and it sucks, hence my loathing. SWA doesn’t give a crap about crushed passengers, this is woke signaling plain and simple. They could just as easily implement a policy making “plus sized” passengers pay for two seats, but the howls (do hippos howl?) of outrage would give them a PR headache, so they went the easy route. I won’t fly SWA due to this.
Having met and spoken in great length with Ben and his wife, I can assure you that there is a mutual balance between them. I can also say unequivocally that there is nothing mean or hateful regarding him.
Harshness can be good when confronting evil forces or asinine policies. Read his autobiography from Amazon. He reveals himself, warts and all, with a keen wit.
I surely agree that actively promoting morbid obesity is evil.
But I don't have a wife, and I am more than willing to state that a vast majority of fat people have serious character issues and a marked tendency toward greed.
I knew a Ginormous fat girl, daughter of a Drama teacher at our college.
Always with this weird overdramatic bearing I most remember accepting an invitation from her roommate to visit and being pistol whipped and robbed in the process of five Black guys who were there to rob the Drama Queen of her Cocaine, which I had no idea she was crazy enough to be dealing as a young girl with no sense in the early seventies.
She was just quite creepy, but we went to Junior High together, so I was always aware of her, as were most people our age because she was quite legendary.
One more snapshot: She is once again in business, this time in an even Blacker neighborhood, and she gets popped.
So, she brings in a narc, makes a controlled buy from her live in boyfriend and he goes to prison and she skates.
Then she moved to an exclusive resort town and lorded that over the citizens of our post industrial backwater before finally, in her early fifties moving to Hollywood and quickly snaring a bit part in a major feature as " Fat woman walking down the street".
I still don't know why they shot it .
That's all it was, the camera following her down a sidewalk for about a full block.
Then she died shortly after.
My other experiences don't make a lot more sense, and while I am sure there are fat folk who are good folk, in the main I don't feel badly for casting it as a character flaw, I believe on balance, it absolutely is.
hell of a story
https://youtu.be/m5S13pt6uCo?si=IZtP5RCIawVdkKvJ
And then there is Marjory from Fat Fighters
lol
Talking of victims, does no one think of the chairs!
I'm guessing that the late great Jackie Gleason's role of Reggie Van Gleason III would be attacked by the woke army when he approached an overweight woman by proclaiming " BOYYYYY ARE YOU FAT !"
Hey fattie, bum, bum...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYF_vJIqzY
'The Diversions' 1975.
I kid you not.
Whether for or against, I'm not sure from the lyrics...
In the interest of impartiality I feel obliged...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJc_KwvfXfc
Slim boy.
Giant whales, like most Leftists, deeply and sincerely hate themselves with a mad passion. Eating themselves to death is their cope.
Greetings to your wife but she is blessed with a husband like you, do not give in-Widerstand- the world would not be a better place with more women in politics rather the contrary if that is to be imagined, by the way according to Milton, the snake went to Eve and not Adam with full intent and yes great success!
Ben, it was interesting to hear about your wife's input. You strike me as an exceptionally mean and hateful person. It sounds like you don't let that poison your relationship, and I give you credit for that. I also give you credit for an interesting scope of information and ideas. I suspect you also scratch an "anger itch" in my psyche. I think it is useful to be exposed to someone who elicits ambiguity in me. I wonder if your personae is somewhat manufactured for clicks or if you strongly believe everything you say. I suspect the quantity of bile you share could be internally painful to you, but maybe not. So, ambivalent or not, inconsistent or not, I keep looking forward to your posts.
You raise interesting questions that I'll have to explore with my psychanalytical therapist next time.
And the same for me, as soon as i find another worth working with...
I've worked with a Ukrainian one who speaks very good English. She does it online and is very affordable compared to her American counterparts.
What has truly made me loathe the fatties among us even more is their recent victory over Southwest Airlines, where they now get a free seat if their “spillover” warrants it. Now, I doubt that will last, given the pushback SWA is likely to get, but it was still a win for them.
Ben’s bile is refreshing to me. Too many people play polite games when a slap in the face is necessary.
And lest anyone pretend otherwise, you know you hope against hope that an empty seat next to you on a plane will not be filled with some behemoth whose rolls will be pressed against you the entire flight.
I've got a thing about the Southwest fats in the works. Maybe in the next week or so I'll release it.
I've also written previously about the fats and their war on airplanes
https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/bodypositivity-propaganda-roundup-6b3?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Ffats%2520airplanes&utm_medium=reader2
Much like Billy Blazjowski from Night Shift, I am an idea man. Charge passengers per pound and have a few double wide seats available for the “horizontally challenged”. Now the body “positivists” can’t complain about discrimination, it’s a weight to thrust and fuel consumption argument.
that's exactly the angle Im going with
If one is charging passengers based on body mass, that is in fact discrimination. And that discrimination is entirely rational. So let's acknowledge that some forms of discrimination are perfectly reasonable, and in fact laudable. You're bumping into the notion of "illegal discrimination." Make no mistake the woke and the body positivists want to make any form of discrimination based on body mass illegal. The issue is that such discrimination should not be illegal for moral reasons that the woke of course reject because they believe humans should have no agency in their own affairs.
Discrimination is an everyday necessity that would make life impossible to navigate without. It's past time to destigmatize it.
Ah, but everyone has mass, there are no “massless” humans boarding a plane. And mass has an impact on various aspects of flight, it’s why everyone doesn’t sit on the same side of a plane. Moving a higher mass requires additional resources, like shipping a package. UPS, et al. charge more the heavier the package, correct? Why should moving a human not have similar pricing? You want to pay less, lose some mass. And since everyone is paying the same rate per kilogram let’s say, how is it discriminatory? If there were different rates for different passengers, I could see it.
O.k., so you think the word discriminate necessarily means doing a bad thing. Carry on. Ignore my comments.
It is framed as helping the fat person, but have you ever been the person jammed in next to them? I really suspect that they are more concerned with not crushing the normal sized. It really sucks to be jammed in next to a big person and why should the neighbor suffer?
I have and it sucks, hence my loathing. SWA doesn’t give a crap about crushed passengers, this is woke signaling plain and simple. They could just as easily implement a policy making “plus sized” passengers pay for two seats, but the howls (do hippos howl?) of outrage would give them a PR headache, so they went the easy route. I won’t fly SWA due to this.
Having met and spoken in great length with Ben and his wife, I can assure you that there is a mutual balance between them. I can also say unequivocally that there is nothing mean or hateful regarding him.
So you find Ben isn't mean in real life. Do you find him harsher in his posts or is it me?
Harshness can be good when confronting evil forces or asinine policies. Read his autobiography from Amazon. He reveals himself, warts and all, with a keen wit.
Thanks for the recommendation Andrew