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(I would say the same for the male version of shock-jockeying, I can admit it comes down to personal tastes choices I guess.)

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Conversely, we have women of real wit who don't have to stoop to such tactics: Imogene Coca, Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore, Betty White, Tina Fey, and Amy Poehler.

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You are too fucking funny to be stupid. Also, where did you get those pants you wore when you were in Lowell, MA about 2 months? They looked super comfy.

stacyinbean

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What it sounds like to me is there is absolutely no way to describe a body that is not thin that is not insulting, because anything that isn't thin is an insult. How, then, to describe such a body? "Curvy"? "Voluptuous"? Are we so fat-hating in this country that we cannot utter a word that accurately describes something without it being an insult?

I don't know if this is entirely making sense, but... I dunno, her retraction really rubbed me the wrong way, because it's not a message to love your body, it's a message to continue to disown words that describe your body because you don't want them to describe your body.

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Frankly, I don't take myself seriously, but what I expect - nay, demand!! - from myself and from others is that I be judged based on my work. Obviously someone may be incapable of honestly evaluating my professional work or the quality of my personality because they've written me off as a moron,* but that's more a condemnation of them than it is of me, so, you know, fuck it.

*There are way too many examples of my functional ineptitude, so I fully accept that this is an all-too-easy characterization to make. No, seriously, it's fucking amazing I haven't won a Darwin Award yet.

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the fat thing - oh, another issue for another post.

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For me, it was a learned behavior, ostensibly to ingratiate myself socially, as if my intellect was the reason for my alienation. As a child, I had biker parents but was in honors classes, and I knew I was considered weird, so I adapted this "Oh I'm really not smart I just can fool 'em" attitude, and wore this as a shield. It wasn't a successful social endeavor, but it was a defensive tactic I carried far into adulthood.

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Flip on a TV show and watch a sit-com sometime... King of Queens, anyone? Everyone Loves Raymond, maybe a little? Home Improvement? Etc...

Chelsea Handler is hot. She's hilarious. She's smart as a whip and she knows it. Anyone who actually believes that she thinks that of herself is an idiot.

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"But the funny thing is that Mrs. Twit wasn't born ugly. She'd had quite a nice face when she was young. The ugliness had grown upon her year by year as she got older.

Why would that happen? I'll tell you why.

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

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