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Buy'em some cupcakes and they'll shut the hell up.

What?

And thought about writing to ask her out to tea so she could say that to my fat face. But I couldn't find my typing stick so I forgot about it.

whatEVER. I'm so sick of fat women being the last group it's okay to target.

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Lynn Siprelle * Fairy Blogmother

Actually, it's a bit more okay to pick on uber-skinny girls. People are starting to be sensitive to overweight women, but it was all right to hound me if I was anorexic or bulimic. When I said "no," they thought I must be in denial and badgered me to seek counseling. If they weren't being "sensitive," they were being horribly mean and saying I look disgusting, ugly, like a skeleton, etc. I put up with constant criticism for 10 years (12-years-old to 22), until my metabolism relaxed a bit and I gained 20 pounds. However, I'm still thin, so I still get comments, just not as many. Sorry about the rant, but I am tired of overweight people complaining that everyone picks on them. It's not easy on the opposite end of the spectrum either. In fact, many overweight women find it all right to pick on the uber-skinny girls. Those were the majority that said something to me.

Also, homosexual men and woman also get picked on frequently.

It's not right at all. When I was a kid, I had tons of self-esteem and confidence. It was my truest self, which is like most kids. But over the years, it's been picked pretty clean.

All I can say for the WW is that they, like the Mercury, are un-PC because it's edgy. They think that by saying what some people are thinking, then they can get more readership. Or perhaps they are just reveling in the idea that they will not be reprimanded like other media.

You get what you pay for.

WW = free.

Enough said.

is a bad review. it is similarly easy to write gross-out material. it's the default position of the past couple of generations. stop it. you're as over as a mowhawk and silver chains... and just as tiresome.
thank god other generations are coming along to make fun of them.

Callousness towards the mass-challenged women of the world may be the least of La Starr's current problems.

From what I have been given to understand by some friends who work there, the presumably fat-free Starr has been involved in a major contretemps with a certain local institution. On the one hand, Starr's bosses remain shielded from the reasons for, indeed even deeper knowledge of, the contretemps itself, while on the other hand the local institution has become a house divided as it wrestles over what to do about Starr.

Within the next two weeks, expect one of two things to happen. Either this major institution will be caught with its pants down, while a local publication will suffer a massive black eye on its big fat puss when its ever so literary correspondent is exposed for what she really is, a ... but that would be telling.

Or, what could happen is .... nothing.

Still, check the headlines for the next two weeks!

But, remember, dear readers, you heard it here first, off the record, on the QT, and very hush hush.

Willamette Week commits this kind of faux-pas quite regularly. The problem is that the editors there are a bunch of middle-aged cultural conservatives trying desperately to sound young, hip and edgy like the Mercury. Since they are none of those things in real life, it's no wonder they keep putting their feet in their mouths. Past episodes are too numerous to count but include using a group of all black kids as the photographic backdrop for a school violence story; a cartoon featuring the Pope calling himself the N-word; and the use of the callous phrase "six feet under" to describe gallery pioneer William Jamison when he died of AIDS. This latest is just par for the course.

Well it's been 1/2 an hour, so I think I screwed up while posting my last post.
So here's the short version.
Signal editor read this blog, decided to write a column.
Here's the link: http://www.seasidesignal.com/opinion/

My letter was one of those 200+ letters recieved, and while the notion of the actual event did surprise me, particularly because of the multiple pot shots taken by Ms. Bias in their weekly, (This isn't the first time...)The goal was achieved and the issue was resolved from a personal and professional perspective.

Kudos to Karla, and BTW, if you're reading this... Where'd your spunk go??