Does anyone else find this disturbing?

[Drtooth]

I agree, the cards are not very nice. The implication is that it's funny or horrible if overweight people are attracted to you. Very immature!

ANd they're not funny, because they result to tired "fat Joke" humor. Not even clever ones. What insults me more as an overweight guy isn't the insults, but the lack of originality. Daggnabbit. Come up with something clever. Something more along the lines of showing a beautiful women onn the front, then digitally altering her inside to be heavy and older. The caption: I bet she looks great now.... but once you get married and have kids, not as much.

Still insulting, but it requires some sort of creativity.

BTW... if an overweight women was attracted to me, I wouldn't mind... if ANYONE were attracted to me, that'd be a blessing.

Don't let your kids grow up to be cartoonist!

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Don't let your kids grow up to be cartoonist!

Hear-Hear!

 

[D'Snowth]

Well apparently my parents are doing the wrong thing then because that's ONE of the fields I'm heading towards, and they're encouraging me!

 

[CensoredAlso]

Well, it can be a noble field, Charles Schultz was a good cartoonist. It's a powerful weapon and you must use it wisely! lol

 

[D'Snowth]

I didn't want to add more fuel to the fire, but it's not just overweight women who are the victim of this, it's fat guys like me who are victims as well; don't you realize how much we have to go through those "dude looks like a lady" jokes because some fat guys have man boobs? It's very hurtful!

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Don't let them get to you D'snowth.

 

[BEAR]

I feel bad for the fat people who have to see themselves be publicly humiliated in a greeting card.

 

[Teheheman]

Personally, as a fat man myself, I see no problem with this. Mostly considering that these women probably got paid REALLY well for the photos that they did at the time. They probably still continue to get paid for each card that's been sold(or at least a little of the proceeds) So, do I feel bad for these big people, eh, not totally. I mean, being fat isn't a disease. Sometimes being fat is a lot about responsibility, and choice. If you choose to eat nothing but fatty foods everyday and never excersize, then you deserve to be fat. If you moderate in the eating department, and excersize, and not get anywhere, then something's wrong with your metabolism. All you have to do is diet and exercise, and you'll be fine. Don't let all this stuff bother you, you gotta let little things like blond jokes, and fat jokes just slide like water off a leaf man.

Daniel

 

[Drtooth]

Well, it can be a noble field, Charles Schultz was a good cartoonist.

For every Charles Shulz... well... let me put it this way... there's a dot of ink in every comic for every broken heart in this feild. Plus it's pretty lonely, even with Geek Chic around.

Personally, as a fat man myself, I see no problem with this. Mostly considering that these women probably got paid REALLY well for the photos that they did at the time. They probably still continue to get paid for each card that's been sold(or at least a little of the proceeds) So, do I feel bad for these big people, eh, not totally.

Yeah. I don't feel bad about them, myself. If you look at them, they're all smiling. They had the humor to do it. Of course, since these were 1950's gag photos which are used as stock art now. So there musta been a different context than the cards read now.

I'm just saying... someone is getting paid to root through these old photos and come up with the same joke, differently worded.

So, do I feel bad for these big people, eh, not totally. I mean, being fat isn't a disease. Sometimes being fat is a lot about responsibility, and choice. If you choose to eat nothing but fatty foods everyday and never excersize, then you deserve to be fat. If you moderate in the eating department, and excersize, and not get anywhere, then something's wrong with your metabolism. All you have to do is diet and exercise, and you'll be fine.

I agree. It's not black and white. I feel there are 3 kinds of overweight people, people who gain weight, feel bad then do something about it, people comfortable with who they are, but maintain themselves more healthfully, and really miserably depressed people who are only fat because they have trouble coping with their problems, and eat to feel better, albiet, breifly. But, that's not too different from chronic smokers (tabbacco, that is... not people who smoke chronic), and alcoholics. It just affects them a different way.

 

[Teheheman]

For every Charles Shulz... well... let me put it this way... there's a dot of ink in every comic for every broken heart in this feild. Plus it's pretty lonely, even with Geek Chic around.



Yeah. I don't feel bad about them, myself. If you look at them, they're all smiling. They had the humor to do it. Of course, since these were 1950's gag photos which are used as stock art now. So there musta been a different context than the cards read now.

I'm just saying... someone is getting paid to root through these old photos and come up with the same joke, differently worded.



I agree. It's not black and white. I feel there are 3 kinds of overweight people, people who gain weight, feel bad then do something about it, people comfortable with who they are, but maintain themselves more healthfully, and really miserably depressed people who are only fat because they have trouble coping with their problems, and eat to feel better, albiet, breifly. But, that's not too different from chronic smokers (tabbacco, that is... not people who smoke chronic), and alcoholics. It just affects them a different way.

Well, it could also be people who smoke chronic, they smoke to get away from the problems of life(whatever they may be)

Daniel