OT Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: overweight

[storm stanford]

No: HPFGUIDX 3578

  -- Original Message ----- 
  From: Amanda Lewanski 
  To: HPforGrownups at egroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 12:21 PM
  Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Temperance/overweight & a question


  Denise Rogers wrote:

  > I don't agree that being overweight is associated with
  > villains as such - I'd say most bad guys are portrayed as thin and dark.
  > Doubtless, someone will now post a list of fat villains.

  Not villains, necessarily, but generally buffoons at the best. Or both, like the bad guy in Jurassic Park. A villain per se must be taken seriously, and part of the whole overweight thing is they're not quite real people who can be truly respected or truly feared.

  --Amanda, whose daughter is a superb example of that last bit

  Amanda - I hope your daughter doesn't need to be feared! I wonder about this a bit - one of my previous partners was, in hindsight I notice very overwieght, I thought then and think now, that she is increadably beautiful. but it is not one of her definaing charatortics for me. My boss is overwight - she is great, I don't notice it at all. one of the cerical workers - I can't stand her! she is also overwight. When I think about her its one of her definainly charatoroistics. 

  further on predjuice, and a bit related to your original post - I met some ppl the other day who are owners of a dog I found and resuced. Apart from the fact that I don't like them for what they did to their dog, when I met them I was stuck(unfavourabley) by how "blond, white and well fed" they looked (in contrast to thier dog I might add). Later I was thinking, what if they'd been chinese, or lebanese - as they might have easily been given the area I live in - would I have found some other things to pick on them? I think it unlikely I would have picked racial grounds to dislike them.

  storm (attempting to root out her predujices, even when they relate to blond, master-race, fundermentalist christans who mistreat thier dogs ...)



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