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Dear Chelsea Handler, Please Stop Calling Yourself Stupid
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Dear Chelsea Handler, Please Stop Calling Yourself Stupid |
08/12/09
We need to market these t-shirts, STAT.
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(Except the stupid racist assholes. They're different.)
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11/22/08
ycioqw ued
11/13/08
(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.
11/13/08
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
11/13/08
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.
11/13/08
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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