Out of Context Podcast QuotesOct 22
"Then I went all caps." - LINDY WEST, Tell Me I'm Fat, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #TellMeImFat #InternationalCapsLockDay #LindyWest
Linh PhamMar 8, 2025
A few photos from Lindy West's "Every Castle, Rank" at the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts in Beaverton, Oregon

#LindyWest
Ricardo HarvinMar 10, 2023

#TheWhale

I read the title and it immediately put me off as I expected the movie to be exactly as #LindyWest describes in this article.

#FatPhobia remains a mostly unchallenged form of bigotry and hate.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/10/lindy-west-on-the-whale

The Whale is not a masterpiece – it’s a joyless, harmful fantasy of fat squalor

The Oscar nomination for The Whale must mean it’s great, right? Wrong! It is a shallow and stigmatising reflection of thin people’s assumptions about fat bodies

The Guardian
ValerieMar 10, 2023
"To the film-makers: You are not on the gallows with us; you are the hangman. You are not noble, long-suffering Liz trying to save Charlie, or Charlie’s inexplicable, glowing benevolence in an unjust world; you are the dirty apartment, closing in." #TheWhale #LindyWest
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/10/lindy-west-on-the-whale
The Whale is not a masterpiece – it’s a joyless, harmful fantasy of fat squalor

The Oscar nomination for The Whale must mean it’s great, right? Wrong! It is a shallow and stigmatising reflection of thin people’s assumptions about fat bodies

The Guardian
Show threadjiujensu🇵🇸Feb 20, 2023
6/?
#LindyWest
"Straight, white, cisgender men love to file #serialkillers under some darker subcategory of white male genius. It's easier to be titillated when fear is an abstraction. Ooh, BTK installed security systems so he could disarm them later.
No, you d**k lickers, they were fucking pathetic, opportunistic, #incel losers who leveraged the staggering confidence that our society confers upon bare minimum white men in order to get away with obliterating the lives of sexual objects."
Show threadjiujensu🇵🇸Feb 20, 2023
4/?
#LindyWest's summary of #Sandler movie themes:
"1. Adam Sandler seems like he's the boy who's kind of a loser, BUT WEALLY HE'S DA BEST BOY and it's the wesponsible guy who's BAD!
2. Adam Sandler talks in a funny voice and/or is a simpleton of unknown provenance.
3. Adam Sandler has severe anger problems, which benefit him. 
4. Adam Sandler seems like just a generic dork, but secretly he is the strongest and best at a sport or trade.
5. #AdamSandler urinates in public.
Show threadjiujensu🇵🇸Feb 18, 2023

2/3
I wanted to copy this whole section, but it's an audiobook & also that's probably frowned upon. #LindyWest is amazing & funny & also tackles that big question - what can or should men do about waves of backlash to women wanting rights. Answer= sacrifice YOUR social capital bc ours is running on empty. We're deemed too angry, irrational, mean or feminazi, so you have to do the uncomfortable thing.

#feminist #notallmen #feministmen #speakup #amreading #books #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon

realcaseyrollins ✝️Aug 4, 2022
#HandmaidsTale is probably the best example, but having not seen it it’d be better to refer to something like #Shrill by #LindyWest (IIRC), #CaptainMarvel, etc.
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