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Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Girls and Heart Attack Risk

from #293 - Fat Activism with Jessica Kirson | The Tim Dillon Show · #293

5 min

Tim reacts to a trailer for Lizzo's dancer competition show "Watch Out for the Big Girls," raising the morbid possibility of a contestant having a heart attack on camera and riffing on eating compulsions among the dancers.

In this bit8 moments
  • Lizzo has a new show called Watch Out for the Big Girls, which sounds negative but is being billed as positive.
  • Tim raises the concern that one of the dancers could have a heart attack during the auditions or on the show.
  • Discussion of physical risks on the show: someone could have a stroke, split and injure themselves, or experience other medical emergencies.
  • Tim wonders if the contestants eat while dancing and whether eating is a compulsive, emotional behavior they can't control.
  • Tim describes the show as emblematic of cultural decline, with celebration of obesity paralleling how society is beginning to celebrate drug addiction.
  • He imagines a hypothetical reality show where proud heroin addicts are celebrated the way overweight people are on current television.
  • Tim pictures all the backup dancers collapsing and dying from cardiac arrest during the tour.
  • He distinguishes between struggling with food choices personally and wanting others to celebrate or encourage that behavior, arguing people should help each other instead.
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LizzoWatch Out for the Big Girls

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