tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37107280.post4564162090807289466..comments2023-09-10T22:07:16.734+12:00Comments on IDLE VICE: Skinny (The Sequel)Mrs Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13864664806865081684noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37107280.post-70088505821935398982007-02-11T16:10:00.000+13:002007-02-11T16:10:00.000+13:00Thanks, Tom, most interesting. What a clever-clogs...Thanks, Tom, most interesting. What a clever-clogs you are. Much appreciated.Mrs Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13864664806865081684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37107280.post-13187809349074544252007-02-09T12:37:00.000+13:002007-02-09T12:37:00.000+13:00Its all about class identification and rationing a...Its all about class identification and rationing access. When being tanned and skinny (and possibly riddled with parasites) marked you as peasant field worker the rich and beautiful defined themselves by being pale and fat (fat = lacking in any form of wasting affliction). All those fob watches on gold chains drawing attention to the prominent tummies they are stretched over you see peeking out of 19th century photoes and the like.<BR/><BR/>Now food is plentiful and with public health triumphant there has to be new ways of gatekeeping devised.Sanctuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03107330732524823291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37107280.post-54828200158249415242007-02-09T11:22:00.000+13:002007-02-09T11:22:00.000+13:00That's a very old book nowadays, I think it was su...That's a very old book nowadays, I think it was superceded by Feminism is a Fat Issue.<br /><br />But I didn't say that, you understand.llewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06561709142491895984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37107280.post-18871412113897743832007-02-09T01:40:00.000+13:002007-02-09T01:40:00.000+13:00On that basis, as long as the junk food industry i...On that basis, as long as the junk food industry is big business thin will be in as it's hard to maintain and the majority will not be thin.<BR/><BR/>last few lines were brilliant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37107280.post-6223018660413060412007-02-08T22:38:00.000+13:002007-02-08T22:38:00.000+13:00Thanks, love. I came up with the theory while at t...Thanks, love. I came up with the theory while at the golf-driving range today. Not sure of the relevance of that, but somehow, whacking balls excites the imagination. Perhaps I should give Benson-Pope a call.Mrs Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13864664806865081684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37107280.post-45895396052333095262007-02-08T20:54:00.000+13:002007-02-08T20:54:00.000+13:00Possibly one of the more astute posts on the whole...Possibly one of the more astute posts on the whole fat/thin issues I have ever read!Oswald Bastablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828229103486326473noreply@blogger.com