rant · moment 14 of 17
Building Your Brand and the Coming Fat-Acceptance Reckoning
from The Off Season | The Tim Dillon Show #316 · #316
5 min
He extends the personality bit into advice about personal branding, then pivots into predicting an inevitable cultural backlash against extreme fat acceptance, riffing on plus-size models and Lizzo's dance show.
- Tim on building a brand: you have to show your life in one digestible way so people understand what you are.
- Sit down with your children each summer and decide who you're going to be that year—jock, smart aloof, or something else.
- Aloof is not for ugly people; good-looking people have the option, but ugly people have to work very hard just to get in the game.
- Tim on the coming fat-acceptance reckoning: we're telling kids to be as fat as possible and eat whatever they want, but it's going to get awkward.
- Lizzo's big girl show is awkward because they're doing dances, can't breathe, and we're celebrating injuries and joint damage as good.
- Plus-size models aren't considered plus-size enough anymore, so eventually everybody will be in a wheelchair on a fashion runway just from being fat.
- Do CEOs of junk food companies ever get uncomfortable about the level of fat they've created in the population?
- In a Black Mirror scenario, junk food CEOs should be dragged from their cars and eaten by the obese people their products created.
- Fat people shouldn't be constantly mocked, but we're going in a direction that's insane and unhealthy by destroying all beauty standards.
- It's odd that fatness has become virtuous—something to be proud of—rather than just something that happened to you.
- You should be proud of being an individual, not dumb things like being fat or Italian, both of which involve sauce.