Everything’s Coming Up Rosie
Writing by treason on Wednesday, 25 of April , 2007 at 9:30 pm
I don’t know the particulars of the story, nor do I care, but whether it was a contract dispute or just the sack, Ms. O’Donnell will soon be off The View. Not that I really care about that, either. I simply do not tune in. (If I wanted to be with a group of women who just sit around and say nasty things about men I’d go get a job.)
My interest in the event, however, is this: the Rosie story is the biggest news since Imus. And, like that little narrative, this one is disturbing in that so much time has been spent on it. Some suspect that Rosie has been singled out because she’s a lesbian. Some say it’s because she’s fat. True, she does belong to a group that’s still fair game. You can still criticize conservatives, Christians, smokers, and the overweight among us. (I don’t know if she smokes.)
The attacks on her appearance have been offensive and I’d prefer it if her critics would knock it off. But then I feel the same way when someone calls Rush Limbaugh fat. People need to rethink this method of assault in a hurry. The fat, if they don’t already, will soon outnumber the thin. I say it’s time for the corpulent majority to speak up. They may say fat, but what they mean is fat and lazy, fat and ugly, fat and stupid. It’s like the hate speech police go deaf all of a sudden. What – it’s okay to hate fat people?
But if the fear is that people will hear the comments from Ms. O’Donnell and be influenced by them, believe them, or agree with them – which, considering the caliber of our government-schooled citizens, is more than likely – then the problem we face is even bigger than Rosie. And, no… that isn’t a commentary on her weight.
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