Comments on: To Be Hot And Nuts http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/07/to-be-hot-and-nuts/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:19:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rad Geek People’s Daily 2006-02-14 – Tuesday Lazy Linking http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/07/to-be-hot-and-nuts/#comment-104826 Rad Geek People’s Daily 2006-02-14 – Tuesday Lazy Linking Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:08:08 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=463#comment-104826 [...] Twisty at I Blame the Patriarchy (2006-02-07): To Be Hot And Nuts points out a story from this month’s Prospect that will make you want to tear your hair out and then run out in a blind rage and bury the entire psychiatric-pharmaceutical complex under a library of Women and Madness and the collected works of Thomas Szasz. [...] [...] Twisty at I Blame the Patriarchy (2006-02-07): To Be Hot And Nuts points out a story from this month’s Prospect that will make you want to tear your hair out and then run out in a blind rage and bury the entire psychiatric-pharmaceutical complex under a library of Women and Madness and the collected works of Thomas Szasz. [...]

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/07/to-be-hot-and-nuts/#comment-81408 Twisty Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:53:12 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=463#comment-81408 Monika, this is an old post. When it was originally published, the article was free. Now it, like the drugs that keep cancer patients alive, costs money. That's capitalism! Monika, this is an old post. When it was originally published, the article was free. Now it, like the drugs that keep cancer patients alive, costs money. That’s capitalism!

]]> By: monika http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/07/to-be-hot-and-nuts/#comment-81402 monika Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:19:37 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=463#comment-81402 For some reason, I am unable to read the original article (it says I need to subscribe?) Is anyone else having this problem? For some reason, I am unable to read the original article (it says I need to subscribe?) Is anyone else having this problem?

]]> By: pheeno http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/07/to-be-hot-and-nuts/#comment-34909 pheeno Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:39:22 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=463#comment-34909 Sort of touching on that, go look at the movie trailer for black snake moan. It features a 90 lb Christina Ricci who commits the female crime of being a "nymph" (theres even a handy dandy quiz on the website to find out if YOU are one too) being chained to a radiator by Samuel L Jackson throughout the whole movie. Sort of touching on that, go look at the movie trailer for black snake moan.

It features a 90 lb Christina Ricci who commits the female crime of being a “nymph” (theres even a handy dandy quiz on the website to find out if YOU are one too) being chained to a radiator by Samuel L Jackson throughout the whole movie.

]]> By: at I Blame The Patriarchy http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/07/to-be-hot-and-nuts/#comment-12881 at I Blame The Patriarchy Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:04:51 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=463#comment-12881 [...] Several patriarchy-blamers have sent in an update of sorts on the “Nia” episode, which, you may recall, revolved around an absurd article in the UK magazine Prospect about the hot young schizophrenic girl whose “young psychiatrist” was moved to wax despondent on the subject of her drug-induced fatness. The update link leads to letters to the editor and a response from the authors of the article, who, as reader Lucy points out, pretty much miss the point of the majority of blogular complaints. Interestingly, the authors reveal that the “Nia” character is a complete invention (they call her a “composite”), which somehow pisses me off even more. This must be how poor betrayed Oprah felt! [...] [...] Several patriarchy-blamers have sent in an update of sorts on the “Nia” episode, which, you may recall, revolved around an absurd article in the UK magazine Prospect about the hot young schizophrenic girl whose “young psychiatrist” was moved to wax despondent on the subject of her drug-induced fatness. The update link leads to letters to the editor and a response from the authors of the article, who, as reader Lucy points out, pretty much miss the point of the majority of blogular complaints. Interestingly, the authors reveal that the “Nia” character is a complete invention (they call her a “composite”), which somehow pisses me off even more. This must be how poor betrayed Oprah felt! [...]

]]> By: littlem http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/07/to-be-hot-and-nuts/#comment-12148 littlem Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:12:45 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=463#comment-12148 Yes, Kate, at the risk of derailing the thread (although the issue of being objectified by the male gaze is IMO very much at the center of both issues) I would like to discuss it. There are layers and layers here, but I read something recently (Pandagon? Feministe?) about the anorexic trophy wife/gf being an accoutrement of success for the male (I'm loath to use the term "man" here) who has succeeded economically in American culture (and it not mattering if she was wan and her health was poor as a result of her extreme thinness, as it was yet another marker of the couple's success as "low class" servants could be hired to do any actual required domestic work, including child care). In keeping with that, I've also seen more ugly rage directed at fat women than men. What I DON'T understand, however, is why fat women enrage these males for "daring" to appear in their gaze, if they (the males) weren't planning on being attracted to them (the women) in the first place. Is it an extrapolation based on these guys' assumptions of entitlement that ALL women, at least theoretically, should be sexually available to them - and therefore those who have the gall to "defy" those "standards" should be bashed, literally and figuratively? (And anyone who wants to meander about in their own delusions humming "physical assault of large women does not happen", please remove your head from your butt. I've personally witnessed some really sick crap.) Yes, Kate, at the risk of derailing the thread (although the issue of being objectified by the male gaze is IMO very much at the center of both issues) I would like to discuss it.

There are layers and layers here, but I read something recently (Pandagon? Feministe?) about the anorexic trophy wife/gf being an accoutrement of success for the male (I’m loath to use the term “man” here) who has succeeded economically in American culture (and it not mattering if she was wan and her health was poor as a result of her extreme thinness, as it was yet another marker of the couple’s success as “low class” servants could be hired to do any actual required domestic work, including child care).

In keeping with that, I’ve also seen more ugly rage directed at fat women than men.

What I DON’T understand, however, is why fat women enrage these males for “daring” to appear in their gaze, if they (the males) weren’t planning on being attracted to them (the women) in the first place. Is it an extrapolation based on these guys’ assumptions of entitlement that ALL women, at least theoretically, should be sexually available to them – and therefore those who have the gall to “defy” those “standards” should be bashed, literally and figuratively?

(And anyone who wants to meander about in their own delusions humming “physical assault of large women does not happen”, please remove your head from your butt. I’ve personally witnessed some really sick crap.)

]]> By: Kate http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/07/to-be-hot-and-nuts/#comment-12057 Kate Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:31:07 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=463#comment-12057 Wow. But, really, why am I floored by this article? A few years ago, I read that a majority of teenage girls would rather lose an arm or leg than be fat. I cried over that fucktard factoid. A question that I hope some of you will want to discuss: Why is fat so hated by patriarchy? Yes, controlling women's bodies is of the utmost importance to the beast, but why not control by making women fat? Which reminds of an Alice Walker story about a woman in a box being force-fed until she burst. Great story. Wow. But, really, why am I floored by this article? A few years ago, I read that a majority of teenage girls would rather lose an arm or leg than be fat. I cried over that fucktard factoid.

A question that I hope some of you will want to discuss:

Why is fat so hated by patriarchy? Yes, controlling women’s bodies is of the utmost importance to the beast, but why not control by making women fat? Which reminds of an Alice Walker story about a woman in a box being force-fed until she burst. Great story.

]]> By: lexicon http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/07/to-be-hot-and-nuts/#comment-11354 lexicon Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:17:47 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=463#comment-11354 @ Ms. Kate in #77 YES! Just like how my male roommate blames my "crazy" outbursts on PMS rather than his own bullshit asshat behavior. @ Ms. Kate in #77

YES! Just like how my male roommate blames my “crazy” outbursts on PMS rather than his own bullshit asshat behavior.

]]> By: zuzu http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/07/to-be-hot-and-nuts/#comment-11350 zuzu Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:11:48 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=463#comment-11350 <i>Oh, incidentally, Twisty, if you click on the trackback to Mr. Sax’s post, you will see that you are appparently a political party as well, and that People Like You are just as resistant to the sage counsel of Mr. Sax as all those misguided Fat Rights Activists who fail to accede to his hectooring.</i> He left a finger-wagging comment at my blog about how CELLULITE IS BAD and YOU'RE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO DIE and assorted claptrap like that. Oh, incidentally, Twisty, if you click on the trackback to Mr. Sax’s post, you will see that you are appparently a political party as well, and that People Like You are just as resistant to the sage counsel of Mr. Sax as all those misguided Fat Rights Activists who fail to accede to his hectooring.

He left a finger-wagging comment at my blog about how CELLULITE IS BAD and YOU’RE ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO DIE and assorted claptrap like that.

]]> By: Donna/Psychperson http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/02/07/to-be-hot-and-nuts/#comment-11337 Donna/Psychperson Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:45:05 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/?p=463#comment-11337 Just to let everyone know that the "Donna" above is not me. And I don't have a problem with being "nuts," because when I am, I truly am. Gotta have something to laugh about, since the disease of mental illness is so serious. Just to let everyone know that the “Donna” above is not me.

And I don’t have a problem with being “nuts,” because when I am, I truly am. Gotta have something to laugh about, since the disease of mental illness is so serious.

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