{"id":2228,"date":"2011-12-14T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2015-07-15T12:40:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:40:45","slug":"repartee-to-bigots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2011\/12\/14\/repartee-to-bigots\/","title":{"rendered":"Repartee to bigots??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/danceswithfat.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/13\/cant-you-just-take-a-fat-joke\/\">this thread on Dances With Fat<\/a>\u00a0about LGBT ally George Takei&#8217;s fat phobia, commenter Saffie brings a possible retort for people who stick their noses in and offer bigoted, shaming comments about her fat body:<\/p>\n<p>My favorite response?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cOh, honey, I\u2019m so sorry for your loss.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat loss?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSeems like your parents weren\u2019t around to teach you manners. I just thought you must have lost them at a very young age.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recognizing that not everyone is raised by their parents and it&#8217;s not appropriate to bring up parental death to strangers who may have had parents who died, I would change this conversation as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bigot: [stupid comment]<\/li>\n<li>Person: I&#8217;m so sorry for your loss.<\/li>\n<li>Bigot: Bzuh?<\/li>\n<li>Person: You seem to have tragically lost your manners. My condolences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>HAH HAH HAH HAH!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this thread on Dances With Fat\u00a0about LGBT ally George Takei&#8217;s fat phobia, commenter Saffie brings a possible retort for people who stick their noses in and offer bigoted, shaming comments about her fat body: My favorite response? \u201cOh, honey, I\u2019m so sorry for your loss.\u201d \u201cWhat loss?\u201d \u201cSeems like your parents weren\u2019t around to&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2011\/12\/14\/repartee-to-bigots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Repartee to bigots??<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[689,729],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fat","tag-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}