Eh, I just think it’s amusing to watch VC03 foam at the mouth. It’s like that Onion article, Area Homosexual Saves Four From Fire. “By now a blackened, sooty, homosexual figure, Lassally set the Widmans down a safe distance from the house, just as firefighters were arriving, and collapsed on the lawn, exhausted and gay.” Or Sublight’s post from a while back about what would (does?) happen if a gaijin does a crime in Japan: “The foreigner, who is not from Japan, stabbed a Japanese citizen eight times with a foreign knife, then returned to his apartment where he lives as a foreigner, where he was discovered by authorities to be foreign.”
Hey, VC03, just out of curiosity, how much do you weigh?
When did the word “fat” become the equivlant of either of those? Sure, the OP is getting a well-deserved reaming for the way he used it, but that’s because his use is irrelevant, not because it’s a bad word.
VCO3, it’s past time to play the Quiet Game. Way past. You’re just plain not informative or funny or challenging enough. Quit typing for a while and read. Not here, mind you. Read books. Read anything. Practice thinking. We’ll call you. lobstermobster, the proportion of people who have a Southern accent and don’t think they’re exceptionally dumb approaches 100%. So if that’s going to be your SDMB persona, I predict a long, hard, and eventually incomplete uphill slog. But I wish you luck, insofar as it doesn’t prolong the egregious OP’s stay here.
As for the OP: there’s lots of people who crave attention, and some will withhold the truth in person, and some will abuse it on the internet, to get it. The OP’s subject may have helped a few people in the course of her efforts. The OP has merely provided another temporary irritant for many in his.
The thread title says “Fat, subhuman slob.” Ms. Head does not appear slobbish in the linked photo, but VC03 went ahead and made that leap. He also called her disgusting and a blob, and compared her to an animal several times.
Well, yeah. The OP is an asshole, no doubt. But Miller and lissener are equating the use of the word “fat” to nigger and faggot. As far as I can tell, any use of the word, as nigger and faggot are not generally used in polite company. I disagree; fat is a word that still has valid uses.
Leaving aside VC03’s OP because it was dumb, I really do feel some anger at this woman for what she did. It’s part of the un-written code of the society we live in - you don’t fake tragedy. (Or maybe it actually is written somewhere. I don’t know.) Even assuming that she is psychologically impaired, I still don’t like her actions.
When “fat” is clearly, as by context, used as an ipso facto insult, then yes, it is the same thing. Just because it has other usages doesn’t change that. By your logic, you could exclude the word “fag” from such consideration because it can also mean “cigarette.”
…“The oldest child began crying that her parents were still in the house,” Lassally, who prefers the company of men to women, said. “So I had to go back in for them.”…
Well she wasn’t drunk apparently. The Dean Wormer rule was only that “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.”
Sorry, whether **VCO3 ** is a callous jerk or a troll for making fun of her size the woman is still a lying douche, profiting if only in false glory by the real grief of others. She is a piece of shit.
I think some of the members of this board might be a little too sensitive to the word fat as an insult. I say this is a fellow fat person. Chill out a little. Do you all have to be so PC all the time?
This woman’s case bears similarities to Munchausen by proxy syndrome. We all know what that is.
Of the dozen or so case histories that I have read over the past few years or so dealing with that isssue, all have been perpetrated by women, and none of them have been what one might call “pageant quality”. Or even anywhere close.
Make of it what you will, it is just what I have noticed.
Actually, it’s more of just Munchausen syndrome. Not by proxy.
That, plus calling someone a “fat slob” is, IMO, comparative to calling them the n-word instead of black, or the f-word instead of gay. It’s a very negative connotation. And overweight != slob. (And slob != overweight, either.)
Well he did set out to insult her, what would a more proper PC method of insulting her be? Was the subhuman and slob part okay if he left off the f-word?
Is using an accurate word to insult someone now a worse insult than using an incorrect word and word that we can not verify the veracity ?
We know she is a liar.
We know she is fat.
We know she is not subhuman.
We have no clue if she is a slob.
So I am going to take insult that he called her a subhuman slob instead of just a fat liar.
When did we become concerned with accuracy and correctness when it came to insults? Must one possess a video, certified for authenticity showing a person actually felching a goat before they can be called a goat-felcher? :dubious:
Sorry, was my sarcasm that poor? I was pointing out that all the people who were taking offense to ‘Fat’ being used as an insult are being oversensitive.
