tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367884164117633335.post5803998928478545926..comments2014-08-13T16:47:47.091-06:00Comments on happysimplefree: Bourdain: a win and a failAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09985624608227011643noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367884164117633335.post-3606547231217585312013-04-18T11:15:46.587-06:002013-04-18T11:15:46.587-06:00Yeah, you're totally right about his bizarre k...Yeah, you're totally right about his bizarre kinda-not-really separation of the woman and the brand. I can kinda see his point about the Paula Deen Evil Empire (TM) exerting influence on the dietary preferences of the nation. Okay, yeah, sure. That could be a conversation, but it would be kind of boring. I don't really care what you eat --- I care that you have the choice of what you want to eat. If we start legislating that everyone must eat a Lady Brunch Burger every Sunday, then we'll talk. <br /><br />And then there's his whole fanboy moment about Bloomberg's <a href="http://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/fat-people-are-not-political-punching-bags/" rel="nofollow">pointless soda ban</a> and the First Lady's <a href="http://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/michelle-obama-what-are-you-thinking/" rel="nofollow">shitty anti-fat-kids campaign</a>. I just don't even. <br /><br />As you say, he segued pretty quickly into mocking her specifically by criticizing her handling (and the existence of!) the whole diabetes thing, while showing photos that were designed to present Paula Deen The Actual Real Live Human in the most unflattering light possible. And I really didn't even get the bit where that shot of her licking some dude's chest overruled her statement about her eating habits off the show. Quoi?<br /><br />And yeah, comedy. I get it. But... seriously, dude. How can he be so awesome in some ways and then fail so horribly in others? It makes me confused and sad. <br /><br />I like your choices, there.<br />Zadihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02503278223871430170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4367884164117633335.post-47584598048974217412013-04-18T10:54:24.782-06:002013-04-18T10:54:24.782-06:00Dude. Duuuuude. Okay.
A) Yes. It was the best thi...Dude. Duuuuude. Okay.<br /><br />A) Yes. It was the best thing ever to see Tony Bourdain refuse to mansplain something.<br /><br />B) Once he launched directly into how much he hates fat people, I could feel this post coming. It was inevitable. Dude had gone so off target it was crazy. I was literally sitting there thinking "Oh man. Zadi is gonna have THINGS TO SAY and she's gonna be RIGHT AS HELL."<br /><br />C) I do want to defend him a tiny bit in regards to his assault on Paula Deen. I'm 100% totally in agreement that her personal health is her business. I just feel like a part of his presentation there, and this is something he alluded to in the beginning, was about "Paula Deen" the multi-million dollar 'Southern food' brand, not Paula Deen the person and his original point was that he was being attacked for attacking the person when he was just way more concerned with the brand and its overall effect on American health. I think once he got into her diabetes, though, that's when things went to hell. It's a cruel sort of schadenfreude to see "Paula Deen" the brand and then mock Paula Deen the woman for having a nutritional health disease which very likely isn't even related. It's not okay.<br /><br />I don't know. In the end: fuck, marry, kill: Tony the badass world travelling chef, Tony the awesome publisher, father, and husband, Tony the judgmental privileged manguy.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571309281777203665noreply@blogger.com