When Obese Men Tell Normal Weight Women That They're Too Fat And Expect Them To Vote For Them

It should be, of course, hilariously ironic for the never exactly lean Donald Trump to have called a young woman fat, it's even more hilarious for a bunch of his male surrogates, the porcine Alex Jones, and the quintessential big fat liar, Rush Limbaugh, and many other men with varying degrees of serious tubbiness to be parroting what their increasingly trollish and tubby Trump has said about her.   But there really isn't anything funny about the underlying conditions that make the fat men figure doing that is well within their realm of privilege. 

I knew nothing of Alicia Machado until Monday.  I looked at photos of her from all during the period under discussion and she doesn't look obese in any of them.  I've never seen a picture of Donald Trump where it wasn't obvious he could stand to loose more than a few stone of fat.  

I do have to wonder how this could go over among women who must be sick and tired of being told they're fat, no matter how normal their weight is but, also, when they are fat.  This demonstration has shown that women are penalized for being fat whereas men can not only get away with it but can pretend that they aren't fat when they are even monstrously fat.  The sexual objectification involved is the very definition of womens' oppression.  Women are never good enough to serve as the ideal, straight, male sex object, there is no woman too good for even the most repulsive man, in the minds of the Trumps of the world and other men who have to use a mirror to see their own phallus.  To have someone like Limbaugh who, at times could have played the part of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen to say that about a young woman of reasonably average weight should certainly piss off many.  I do wonder if the women in the media might not have an especially keen sense of that.  The women at FOX who have had to maintain the appearance of call-girls under the rule of the repulsive Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch must have some ideas about this.  It would certainly be nice to hear them honestly expound on it.