[URL="http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2014/01/13/262076085/chris-christie-and-pulling-the-red-handle"]NPR Link[/URL]
[quote=NPR]Every time Chris Christie is in the news, for some reason, every humor run about him has to include a bunch of mentions of the fact that he's a fat guy. They're rarely inventive in the least — they're basically just mentions of the fact that he must eat doughnuts or pie or things that come in buckets, that he's huge, that he's big, that he eats everything and everyone and so forth. It's like quoting Monty Python at this point; it's not humor as much as it is something that takes the place of humor because it's located in the same place where humor would normally be found.
So I mentioned on Twitter the other day that it would be great if somebody, somewhere could do the comedy angle on that story while just leaving that be. And what surprised me the most was hearing back a few times that he really brought it on himself, because he mentioned that he'd found out about some very newsworthy e-mails right after his workout.
Think about that. He brought it on himself ... because he mentioned his workout. He deserves to be made fun of over something we deem bad about him because he mentioned trying to address it. I mean ... that's really weird.
As weird as it is, it brought to light something that I think a lot of us know, deep down, which is that there's no real logic to dragging out this kind of thing. It's just kind of free-floating contempt. It's just pulling the handle because it's there to be pulled, and it's free, and you can, and mentioning his workout didn't really justify it as much as it just kind of put it in your head.
When I brought that up, I heard back from a few people that they don't care about Chris Christie's feelings, because they think he's a bad person. And hey, if that's how you feel, if thinking somebody is a bad person makes it open season on everything about him, that's totally up to you.
But you shouldn't do it without understanding that every time you do that, it's not just that handle you're pulling. It's mine, too, and probably a fair number of other people's. I remember once hearing many years ago that one of my friends had told someone he was concerned that he sometimes made fat jokes about other people in front of me. He was worried that it hurt my feelings. (Which it did.) His explanation had been, "I don't think of her as a fat person." And my answer to the intermediary from whom I heard this story was, "Well, he should. Because I am."[/quote]
[B]TL;DR For lazy douches:[/B]
Stop making fat jokes about Chris Christie. Its not funny, its getting stale like mentioning Monty Python and the Holy Grail jokes.
The article talks about the [I]red handle[/I], that everyone has, something that immediately pisses them off or erks them, I suggest reading the whole thing but I doubt people will do that.
Is this news or opinion? It sounds like an op-ed. Nothing happened except making fat jokes is mean to all fat people.
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;43530757]Is this news or opinion? It sounds like an op-ed. Nothing happened except making fat jokes is mean to all fat people.[/QUOTE]
If its Op-ed, then it can be locked. I thought it was an interesting read, wanted to share since it was a level headed read, not someone flipping out.
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