Comments on: Fake Ads to Track Conversions (or fun with a dash of fat hate!)

By: Jennifer Gniadecki

Jennifer Gniadecki — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:50:04 +0000

Donna – I think I already suffer from that affliction LOL

By: Jennifer Gniadecki

Jennifer Gniadecki — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:57:55 +0000

I actually have a problem with both of your examples. Discrimination is most harmful when people assume no one cares.

Though most people won’t care. Because that’s part of what keeps discrimination around!

Lighten up. Next time someone tells a racial or handicapped or cancer joke and someone has a problem with it…make sure to break that one out. Works every time!

But thanks for commenting, I would have been REALLY worried if I hadn’t gotten told to lighten up, or it was just a joke, or it happens everywhere else so why is this one instance bad…by *someone* — because those are common reactions when people point things out and say, “That’s not okay.”

Enjoy lunch!

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:56:48 +0000

Scary how industry puts people in boxes, and thinks it’s Ok to mock someones body shape. Especially since anything above size four is fat according to TV anyway! I can just imagine “airport avoidance syndrome” being the neurosis of the future.
Thanks for a good post. Donna

By: Sean Kelly

Sean Kelly — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:32:40 +0000

Jennifer:
I think you should have stuck with your gut instinct and enjoyed the bellylaugh.
If this were on MadTV or SNL, no one would be object to it. In fact, last night’s South Park episode showed Rob Reiner consuming pizzas and burgers non-stop; it was so upsetting I ate an entire bucket of chicken to get it out of my mind.

I also think that the really harmful discrimination is not what’s in the open, but what’s being done in silence without humor. Next week Philly Media will be running ads with airbrushed supermodels and celebrities with inches photochopped off arms and waistlines and no one will say a word.

I was going to say Lighten up! but I gotta go. Time for lunch!

By: Jennifer Gniadecki

Jennifer Gniadecki — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:08:36 +0000

Oh, I hope it doesn’t sound like I’m being judgmental! I laughed too…it took a while minute before I went…HEY! That’s not okay!

That’s what makes it so scary. I’m kind of into the whole fat discrimination thing, follow blogs, read medical journal articles and whatnot…and I didn’t see it right away.

It’s just so odd, and I wonder how long the committee met before deciding that a person + luggage weighing 200lbs. total was the ideal number.

Thanks for the awesome comment Miranda, I appreciate it!!

By: Miranda

Miranda — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:01:58 +0000

You make a valid point about our society. And, while I don’t blame “fat people” for their energy use, I was guilty of not noticing the bias in the ad very quickly. And laughing about it more than maybe I should have. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.