Heaven forbid if we ever sang along to either Sir Mix A Lot's "Baby Got Back" or Nicki Minaj' "Anaconda." Anyone remember "Short Dick Man" from 20 Fingers? Speaking of body issues due to popular sayings.
Why are we jumping to protect people when there is no threat there to begin with? Why are we crying over this shirt? Did our skin become so sensitive and thin that we cannot believe someone would put their sexual preference on a shirt? We are a community that wraps everything in a Rainbow to show that we are in favor of something a little different than the rest of society. now? Why are we a society that needs to coddle those that are feeling threatened all the time.
Or could it be that my car doesn't have air bags or anti lock brakes? Or the fact that, because of my weight, I was picked on constantly and called cupcake and fatty on the school bus throughout my entire childhood. I guess it may be from riding my bike as a child with no helmet or sitting on my mother's lap in for the entire duration of a 1200 mile family road trip. Getting back to the shirt, I guess my issue is … well I don't really have an issue with this shirt at all. Are we coddling the fats and fems more than the other groups? SHOCKED! But I am not going around calling them racist, but apparently I should? Here in Florida, we see a ton of no whites, no blacks, prefer dark skin, just brothas. Have you ever talked to your friends about yours? I am shocked at how many of my friends do not find black men sexually attractive. While the first chapter presents a history and overview of the organisation Girth and Mirth, the second chapter, appropriately titled, ‘Injuries big gay men suffer’, is devoted to detailing a range of issues that members of Girth and Mirth encounter.Do you take offense to this shirt? Should we? The article below from Mic.com states that this shirt and this saying shows that the gay community is "sexist, racist, and discriminatory AF." Well no shit, Sherlock. Girth and Mirth can be characterised as a social club of international reach that provides a supportive environment for big gay men to find companionship, create community and ‘nurture one another's joy in being fat and happy’ (p.
The book is informed by participant observation and interviews Whitesel conducted over a span of nearly three years within a chapter of ‘Girth and Mirth’ in the U.S. However, with his engaging and insightful text Fat gay men: girth, mirth, and the politics of stigma, gender and body studies scholar Jason Whitesel has begun to fill this void. The social, sexual and emotional experiences of big gay men are often overlooked and understudied. This chapter illustrates how many big gay men are routinely subjected to sizeism and fat‐profiling, wherein the ‘fat body’ is read as an indicator of moral and social failure or as a failed body project consequently, an array of negative assumptions become transposed onto While the first chapter presents a history and overview of the organisation Girth and Mirth, the second chapter, appropriately titled, ‘Injuries big gay men suffer’, is devoted to detailing a range of issues that members of Girth and Mirth encounter.
Fat gay men: girth, mirth, and the politics of stigma.