The First Annual Cracked Fat Jokes Festival! Get It While It's Legal!
I'm going to level with you: this article about fat people trying to get "being fat" a federally protected condition raises some fine points. Although it sounds like fatties trying to have their cake and eat it too, maybe with a shake and some fries on the side, there are some compelling cases by which I could be persuaded that they deserve to be protected form discrimination (most of these cases are cases of liquor).
And in a nation obsessed with body image and yet largely overweight, it’s an important issue. Whether or not someone can sue you for offering to describe their feet to them (you know, for old time’s sake) could actually affect my life very directly.
But above all else, what I gather from that article is that there’s a real possibility, in the near future, that it will be socially unacceptable to make fat jokes. And that fills me with the kind of horror known only to a fat kid being told that the funnel cake machine is still out of order.
As a blog that clearly lovesWhen not blogging for Cracked, Michael wicked rips on fat kids as head writer and co-founder of Those Aren't Muskets!
