Ok. I am about to take down a post where, in the comments section, we are accused of showing MEDIA BIAS ABOUT LANDBEASTS. If you didn’t get a chance to see it, let me just assure you, we had a commenter, a regular even, accuse this site of showing media bias because of the use of the word “landbeast.” We’re not even real media, for crying out loud.
This was the wake-up call I needed. No more politics. It may kill me, and I might slip in an opinion here and there BECAUSE I AM CO-OWNER OF THIS BLOG AND I CAN SAY WHATEVER I WANT, but I am going to attempt not to post anything political for the forseeable future.
Notice I said “ATTEMPT” because Ashley Judd is SURE to say something political between now and November and there is no way I won’t post about it.
So. There it is. Regular mocking will now continue, and if you’re a landbeast, you’re just going to have to deal with it.
As a damn dirty liberal, I’ll be insulted if you DON’T post about Ashley Judd getting political.
Really, though, it’s your blog and you should feel free to post what you want. I probably won’t agree with you, but hey, debating is fun when I’m feeling articulate.
Thanks angry_broad!
I do like debating with you, but I PREFER trashing Ashley with you (trashleying?). So I’m going to try and just take a breather from politics for a bit.
Fair enough, Mock. I prefer Ashley trashing myself.
If you wanna know a secret, my family’s all Republican (I used to be one myself– just don’t tell anyone
), and every so often we have to call a truce and not debate for awhile just because things can get mighty heated.
Landbeast, eh? That’s what ticked them off? You know, there’s fat, and then there’s ohmylanddidyouSEEher? (or him) fat. Except for the picture of the one in the blue flowered dress, (the topic with two photos, just below this one), your subjects for mocking have been the second kind.
People that large are an aberration. Yes, some of them MAY have metabolic issues, but most of them are just eating too much of the wrong kinds of foods. Allow me to tell a little story:
My sis-in-law used to be a teacher (she’s principal of a school now), and used to be invited to all sorts of parties by her fellow teachers. She quite often took me along just for fun (we’re close). One day, she invited me to a Pampered Chef party. We were the first to arrive, and were shown into the den. One by one, the other teachers arrived. In they came, each one larger than the last, and I started wondering what the neighbors were thinking. One woman was so large she took up an entire love seat by herself! Now, my sis-in-law and I aren’t exactly svelte (I was a 14 and she was about a 16X), but we looked like sylphs compared to some of these women. It looked like an Overeaters Anonymous meeting.
During the presentation, the salesperson asked how many of us liked to cook. Only my sister-in-law and I raised our hands. I looked around in shock, thinking, “Surely these women love to cook, since they obviously love to eat!” Nope. They started talking about how much they hated cooking and how they did instant this and frozen that, or takeout most evenings.
I realized then how much most people depend on convenience foods, and how they’ve probably had a huge role in making us so fat. But you know what? It’s a choice we make. Yes, it’s hard to resist temptation, but to allow yourself to get to the point where you take up a piece of furniture meant for two people? And we’re supposed to pretend that’s not abnormal? Come on!
Landbeasts? Look, I’ve been a lurking reader and I am a healthy size 24. If I would go out in public dressed as inappropriately as some of the specimens, I would assume to be called alot worse than a landbeast!
So this fat chick says post away! It’s your blog and you can do what you want!
Btw, love the Ashley bashing but sometimes, its just too damn easy! Can we have some Palin bashing or is that too easy as well?
Put that post back, young lady. Right this minute!
P.S. I love Sarah Palin. She’s my new idol.
Second fat chick here says post away as well. I love the “media bias” thing. I mean…what about the photos of Courtney Love and Amy Winehouse…isn’t that “media bias” toward skeletons? If it’s mock worthy…MOCK AWAY!!
You know, my sister is a size 16 and is and always will be the gorgeous sister in the family. And her brilliant, lifelong mantra is, “just because it comes in your size doesn’t mean you should friggin’ wear it.” Amen, sister.
Last I heard, this was a free country where you could read (or not read) things at will. You can eat whatever you damn well please, too, or you can choose to put the twinkie down. It’s kinda cool how that works in a democratic society. Have I fallen asleep and woken up in North Korea or something? WTF?
I EXPECT you to mock everyone and everything Mockarena…if you stop I’ll be just plain disappointed in you! (since when do we mere readers have a say in what you post and mock?) Mock away!
Its too bad you removed that bit because your post about John Edwards being the father was HEEE-larious. And too bad about the axe on politics. I too would love Palin bashing or at least some McCain mocking…not just because I’m voting for Obama but because he’s got one hilarious face and you could certainly do it justice. Oh, and I have to agree with whoever was offended by landbeast. Really…landbeast? I love the mocking but landbeast just hurts my big liberal heart.
Daisy - I don’t even know what size my sister is, but it sounds like she could learn a thing or two from yours. My saying with her (behind her back, of course) was always “just because you can GET in it, doesn’t mean you FIT in it.”
I was always worried someone would be seriously injured should her button fly shorts give way.
Obesity in the US is a serious problem, and will be worse when
we are in our 60s-70s, and paying higher health care costs to
subsidize those who couldn’t control themselves earlier in life.
The sooner that the world has fewer landbeasts, the better.
I am not advocating any type of safari-activity, but peer pressure
might work.
Mockerana:
I have loved this site ever since I started reading it. And it is true, YOU are the co-owner of this site, and YOU as co-owner should be able to express your views of whatever people in the world decide to showcase, whether it be their enormous mounds of rolls, or their ribs, of their boob caves. Just because one person out of all the people who regularly read this blog, I guess you would call it, does not mean that that person can rule you or what you set out to do.
This site is based off of mocking, and if that person cannot get over themselves enough to stop reading and move to a different website, or take a step back and laugh, then they should not make themselves at home here. They are just making themselves more uncomfortable and open to be offended, and creating more problems for those of us who do like what you say, and for you as the co-owner, (and all of the others, too.)
Anyways, I just though I would share my opinion, although I’m sure that many other readers agree with me. It is YOUR website, and YOURS to do with it what YOU will. If they don’t like it, they can just go somewhere else. It’s the Internet, and the last time I checked, free speech was still in the Bill of Rights.
As Tammy says, “MOCK AWAY!!!!”
or** not of their boob caves.
LOL, Daisy and Jennifer. One of my friends used to say “Spandex should stretch, not scream.”
Okay, people, I’m the one who made the snarky comment about landbeasts. Let me just say, I thought this was a site for MOCKING, and I was MOCKING BACK (and I’m not shouting, I’m just making an emphasis).
I simply pointed out there there is bias in all kinds of media (and media = forms of mass communication, and by definition that includes blogs), and lately yours often appears to be against fat people…although really I guess that is more of a prejudice than a bias.
Let me make it clear, I LOVE this site and laugh over just about every post. I came to despise both Katherine Heigl and Ashley Judd because of you. I love the snark and the mocking of political candidates and celebrities. Your comment about John Edwards in the post you removed (and I wish you wouldn’t have removed it) was hilarious. I am constantly telling people about this site and encouraging them to visit it for a great laugh.
Politicians and celebrities and people who post their freak fotos on the internet are fair game for mocking, in my opinion, but I *personally* think the mocking of regular people, fat or skinny or otherwise, is not cool. I would hate to be the person in Indy who visited your site to find you had been in line behind me and snapped my photo to mock, for whatever reason (unless I was wrapping Nintendo cords around my neck and using memory cards for pasties). But that’s just my compassionate liberal heart who thinks yes, fat people are living unhealthy lives, but that doesn’t warrant mockery. However, it’s *your* site, and really, if it bothered me that much, I just wouldn’t come here. I comment on the things I find funny, and sometimes I don’t take the time to comment even if I do find it funny, and I usually just read the average-person-in-the-grocery-store mocks and go to the next entry without comment, because hey, it’s your site and I am free to come and go, right?
But I also think, if you’re going to put stuff out there and mock it, you should be able to take a bit of mocking yourself.
Lest you think I am some nut who is offended by any and every little thing, that’s not true. Just ask Meadow. I happily do my fair share of mocking. Take Mitt Romney’s speech at the RNC, for example….
So I guess I am calling truce, even though I didn’t realize my comment was going to start some kind of controversy.
Thanks for your comments, everyone! And Jill - I appreciate that you offered yourself up for sacrifice.
Here’s the thing. This isn’t about me not being able take as good as I give. You guys know I can debate for pretty much ever about anything you wanna throw at me. But there is so much sensitivity around politics, and once I read the comment about this BLOG showing media bias, the debate stopped being fun, and the only reason I HAVE this blog is to have fun.
So you see - it’s really all about me and the fun I want to have.
Politics can be completely hilarious, which is why I’m not making PROMISES that it’ll stay out of this blog. But for now, I’m going to give it a temporary rest.
Especially since I’m basking in the glow of Palin knocking that speech Out. Of. The. PARK.
I am firmly in the “your blog, your choice” camp, but I’ve got to support Jill about the landbeast thing. Not regarding the political post, which I didn’t see (damn it), but I just don’t think it’s all that fun to make fun of random fat people. Celebrity fat people—bring it on! And, yes, I enjoy mocking Courtney Love and Amy Winehouse, but don’t want to snark on just any old streetcorner junkie anorectic. Particularly when there are so many deserving people like Cave-boob Xtina around. That said, if you do think it’s fun I’ll just skip those posts and focus on the truly important things in life, like Ashley Judd’s verbal diarrhea.
Mockarena…the political part of the post didn’t bother me at all, I’m not sure what I said that gave you that impression. I *thought* I was making an ironic observation and I swear, I had no idea it was going to get taken to this level.
I really hope you can understand that I do believe, as Rosie said, in ‘your blog, your choice.’ Didn’t mean to take the fun out of it…I don’t want to be known as the party-pooper!
No worries.
As Dame said so perfectly this morning: “AWW! It’s SO ADORABLE that people think we’re media!”
As a fat person, I mock landbeasts myself. I have been slowly and steadily losing weight over the past 5 years. My daughter is a landbeast, as is many of my relatives. Watching them eat inspired me to take control and lose, so far in 5 years, over 150 pounds. (14 just this summer. woot!) Anyway, I love this site and even if I don’t always agree with your politics, I don’t think anything should be censored. This site is just good fun. If people take a subject personally, they can avoid reading that post. Thank you, Mockarena, for all that you do…you have educated me on the likes of Spencer Pratt (I’m still not sure what he does) and Heigl (whom I never heard of before this site).
Mockarena - bring the politics back… you’re depriving us of your witty remarks and unbiased concern for your readers opinions! That’s just not fair.
I’m in love with Sarah Palin, and my man’s okay with that.
i love the landbeast posts! you can do no wrong. i love you guys!!
anyways, its impossible not to offend anyone.
some people just have it comin’ more than others i guess…
anyway, you are great and even your readers are awesome!!
keep it up! your the best “media” i see all day!
Mockerana, I slept on this and decided I must urge you to start a new blog to share your political views. Much talent wasted on not sharing your humor with the world. It’s an important election. Get with it, girl!
Thanks That Girl, but if I started a political blog I would probably never get ANYTHING else done because of all of the fights I’d be having with the commenters. I’ve got my blood pressure to think about, and I know it’d skyrocket.
Besides, you all know where I stand by now.