Don't Make Me Defend Kim Kardashian!

So, I don't like Kim Kardashian.  Or, I guess I should say that I don't like the television persona that Kim Kardashian puts forth; since I've never met her and so I have no idea whether I'd like the real woman behind the screen.

But I REALLY dislike that persona; the one that is nothing but a reality show fame whore seeking out attention at all costs. (See, I REALLY don't like her.)

But recently she wore a truly hideous dress (in my humble opinion) to a red carpet event and was photographed a million times over in said hideous dress. Then the images were plastered on every magazine and webpage in existence with gleefully spite-filled headings like, "Kim packs on the pounds!" and "Kim Kauses Komotion" (don't get me started on the horribleness of that last one!)

What was seemingly overlooked or at least not seen as an acceptable excuse, was the fact that she is growing a human being inside her uterus.  Has she put on some weight?  Yep.  Is she full of water and blood and amniotic fluid and a developing human?  Yeah?  Then cut her some friggin' slack!!

It makes me angry enough to see all those crap headlines that track every inch Kirstie Alley gains and loses and the ones about, "Who Has the Worst Beach Body?".  But to get after a PREGNANT woman for gaining weight?  What the heck is next?  Upbraiding the elderly for having wrinkles?  (Oh wait!  Society kind of already does that!)  Maybe she's gained a little more weight than what is strictly baby and maybe she hasn't.  The point is why does the media and our society at large care so much?  

It's because being a larger woman means you've committed a crime against society's laws.  If you're larger than a size 4, maybe it means that you don't buy into the media brainwashing that everyone has to BE a size 4 or smaller to be happy.  

This leaves you open for ridicule like no other trait.  We have thankfully evolved past the days when it was culturally acceptable to ridicule people because of the colour of their skin or because of their ethnicity.  We are (ever so slowly) leaving behind the days when sexual orientation was something that people (adults anyway) could openly make fun of.  

But don't worry, bullies of the adult world, cause fat women (fat people, really) are still fair game.  That's because most people still see fat people as lazy and stupid; too lazy to exercise and too stupid to understand how to eat healthy.  

But the fact is that poverty plays the biggest role in why people become overweight.  I'm going to have a much bigger rant on that another day.

For now, can we just agree to stop picking on Ms. Kardashian because she had the audacity to gain a couple of pounds during PREGNACY, and go back to picking on her because her stupid reality shows are bringing down the collective intelligence of the viewing public?  

See, I really don't like defending her!