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"boy i sure was a porker!" cue the audience laughter and my audible gasp. what the fuck did she just say? oh no! et tu ricki? i'll tell the world i love trash television. i know i know, it's rotting my brain and slowly decaying society at large, but i'm addicted. my social conscienceness can never quite beat out my inner lust for white trash. i'll also tell the world that i loved (in the past tense) ricki lake. i wouldn't shy away from admitting that for a split second. hell, i was once a considered guest for the ricki lake show. a make-over just waiting to happen. i admired the ricki of the past. i mean, can you think of another fictional character who personifies fat pride like tracy turnblad did it in Hairspray? her pudge was no object for her dancing feet. our dear, not so little tracy didn't mind that her mother was constantly dieting. she didn't let day to day life get her down. she overcame being called names and went on to be a teen idol. a teen idol for chrissake! not to mention she got the studly tiger beat-esque hero. and not once in that movie did he say he loved her pretty face. he wanted tracy turnblad in the most primal cushion for the pushin' kind of way. (so did all those boys watching the Corny Collins show as a matter of fact!) and ricki lake was unbelievably and convincingly sexy. she was a fat girl with too much style for the world to handle. whoa. and all of that is not to mention Pepper Ann, the ricki lake of john water's Crybaby (one of my personal favorite movies, by the way.) a pregnant teen ricki lake who still had that angelically round face and wasn't afraid to show off her super round tummy in tight skirts and lowcut tops. with a wink and lick of her lips she wooed the unsuspecting male youth. she really was a degenerate the world should be proud of. and again, she got a rather studly catch of a boy, helped to save the day and played the drums like a mother fucker. an active and successful fat role that taught us all to remember "our bazooms are our weapons!". so what happened? what happened to pepper ann and tracy turnblad? they must've disappeared from ricki's memory as she's telling her audience what a "porker" she was. ricki lake still dresses very sharply. she still is an attractive woman who isn't exactly kate moss size. why am i so angry at her? i don't think tracy would've approved of ricki hosting shows about how "my friend thinks she has what it takes to be a sexy belly dancer..but she's too fat!" i tried to forgive her in the past. she can't help it that her audience calling guests "fat hoochies" gets her better ratings. she's just trying to make a living, like the rest of us, right? wrong. ricki lake has the opportunity to create positive energy. i think everything i've written above goes to show she's done it in the past. it's when she starts to degrade herself in front of a national audience that pisses me off. ricki lake has the chance to tell girls like you and me that she isn't ashamed of her body. she can spread the message of positive body image, even though it isn't a popular one.we've all seen her get behind causes before, but i guess the bad guy wins on this one, and ricki lake is whipped by society into a weight watcher's program. i like to think that if ricki lake wandered onto fat girl breakdown and read this article some part of her would feel a little bad for what she's done. for deserting and disappointing a "fat hoochie" girl who had faith in her.
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