can we kill this thread?

being pictured with fat chicks -- god forbid -- damn y'all were super gross back in the day

“y’all” = a raft of ex posters

plenty of current posters were doing gross fat shaming and objectifying women at the time as well ...

I left out a poll option on this thread, please kill! BuzzFeed’s Off-Brand Character Universe

am now looking forward to sarahell's hard-hitting exposé of plenty of current posters and their fat-shaming and objectifying pasts they don't want you to see. let the chips fall where they may.

I def fat shamed in my early ilx years, I was a p shitty person when I was 18/19. poetic justice is I’m fat now.

am now looking forward to sarahell's hard-hitting exposé of plenty of current posters and their fat-shaming and objectifying pasts they don't want you to see. let the chips fall where they may.

― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, September 12, 2019 3:49 PM (three hours ago)

uh, okay? i mean, that wasn't on my agenda? Considering you've been posting forever, I dunno why I would need to tell you something you already know? Anyone else who has only been posting for a few years or somehow confined themselves to ILM or sports boards and wasn't here for "lol fat ppl" and "is this chick something i would put my dick in y or n" posts and threads -- they can use the pretty well designed search function.

Yea wtf

Obviously I don't find that behavior an unforgivable sin and hate everyone who engaged in it -- just, it was a thing people used to do, and it was kinda gross

KBP: yo dyke bitch lose some fucking weight

Beth Ditto: What?

KBP: maybe if you stop eating pussy you wont be such a fukkin lardass

Beth Ditto: Have you read my Guardian articles??

KBP: yah ever since dom passantino got sacked yo the only fat queer writing from them

― King Boy Pato, Friday, July 27, 2007 5:24 AM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink

We need a separate thread for this. Otherwise we might kill the "can we kill this thread?" thread. btw, KBP should have been 51'd twelve years ago for that!

lol a thread for ILX History of Fat-Shaming and Objectifying Women would be a really great idea ...

It would make the job of future researchers that much easier.

yeah, if they have access to "thread dump" or wherever deleted threads go ...

I should join some message board that’s mostly edgy 22 year olds in 2019, and then when they become civil adults in twelve years I could post things like “oh, we we were pretty gross back then!”

but then one of them will figure out I was nearly 40 at the time

perusing a right to be fat? gives an interesting glimpse into historic ilx discourse on weight issues. I'm not sure how many of the participants still post to ilx, due to the many login name changes over more than a decade.

can we not

the squeamish ought not poke
the tidal wrack upon the beach

-- Sappho --

*Huey Lewis voice* a right to be fat

jesus christ

Esteban chaese teh chubby

― nervous.gif (eman), Friday, April 14, 2006 11:52 AM (thirteen years ago)


The secret is out, holmes :-(

― Father Esteban Buttez (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Friday, April 14, 2006 1:56 PM (thirteen years ago)

The sound of 300 pounds of lard banging against the wall...

maybe we should start a related kickstarter campaign ...

280 lbs
pledged of 300 lb goal

possible Biff roleplay

with a porn cartoonist

should have fired her for starting a union

with a few surprising exceptions, (and a few obvious ones), most ppl on that thread should be ashamed

the indefensible thread-sibling to the classic hipster couch sex thread

I remember a significant amount of fat-shaming and fat-phobia on various ILTMI threads ... and there are plenty more ... and yeah, ILM has a lot of "lol fat male music nerds" stuff on it, and that is also gross, but the stuff directed at women is the most embarrassing/awful

mea culpa ilx is bad because it doesnt note that the ilx mea culpad for was good compared to the ilx mea culpaing

so, deems, you're saying that ilx, if not already in the gutter dripping with bean juice from a discarded can, is headed there in a handbasket?

ilx used to be better but I'm pretty sure it's not because people were posting stuff about "fat chicks" and calling each other "fags" or whatnot, which seems to be your contention

not exactly that, certainly, but the bathwater/baby ratio is questionable somewhere in the "ugh how awful everything was" jim

aimless you seem to be in a very negative spiral of ilx comments and i hope all is well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_CE7GqqrvY

no one is saying "how awful everything" was though. they're saying "this specific aspect of old ilx was bad". this is certainly no worse than whatever it is you do whenever anyone makes that kind of point, which is to make a bit of a sophistic argument against that sentiment which is always vague

why dyou think 'ilx used to be better', leaving specific concerns about the thread in question aside

it was better when there were more voices expressing lively opinions & individual perspectives, to be sure. however, many of the now-absent voices were encouraged to leave BY the fat jokes & fag-calling. many others have left for their own IRL reasons, not because of a more polite atmosphere. it’s a furphy to conclude that ILX would be better now if we still had three funny assholes and 12 boring assholes, whether or not we still had a hundred interesting & smart ppl who have also gone.

dom used to post

i was gonna say its possibly a question for a separate, non-leading thread

the answer, imo & tbrr, would be in the users answering that it was better now

hi x !

why dyou think 'ilx used to be better', leaving specific concerns about the thread in question aside

― theRZA the JZA and the NDB (darraghmac), Friday, September 13, 2019 12:59 PM (three minutes ago)

a lot of good posters don't post here anymore or hardly ever post. thinking about heavyweights like max read or nabisco, not dom passantino - who could be funny, but ultimately was legitimately abusive to a number of posters. this is why ilx isn't as good

there are also plenty of places on the web were you can engage in problematic badinage if that takes your fancy

im here amnt i

thats not far off an "if you dont like it, leave" rejoinder if its in fact any different at all

it's different

i like you as a poster and you don't post objectionable stuff

i just disagree with you

no one is saying "how awful everything" was though. they're saying "this specific aspect of old ilx was bad".

I thought I made it pretty clear. Even Dom and some of the other problematic posters (e.g. Cankles) had some classic threads where they weren't shitheads.

And we're definitely not going to reach any consensus over who were the best posters who are now sadly missed.

posterzoned by jim

OK, wow, banned. May have something there about the disposable personality in my case, but whatever.