a second possible venuePerhaps someone with background in elections law can tell us, at what level does a pattern of nationwide campaign spending trigger Federal Elections Committee or McCain-Feingold requirements? Because the FEC might be another place to file a complaint.

EliteMAGGIE GALLAGHER: “The homosexuals are elite!” (folds an XL pizza like pita bread and swallows it whole). “The homosexuals are well-funded and organized!” (hits the button which starts her doughnut conveyor belt). “Homosexuals need to keep their money in their own state!” (covers the entire planet Earth with a can of whipped cream).
If the day comes when Maggie and Brian Brown are forced into orange jumpsuits, let’s throw an international party! LOL

Kennebec Journalreported this and the comments this morning were all about “people from out of state interfering with Maine”. GAH.
Little do they know:  http://www.goodasyou.org/good_…

ENOUGH WITH THE GODDAM FAT JOKES ALREADYSeriously, enough with this puerile, sexist “Maggie Gallgher is fat” jokes. Maggie’s size has nothing to do with her politics or NOM. Comments consisting of nothing more than “Hurr hurr Maggie is FAT” are irrelevant, and they’re immature and rude.
The misogyny in such comments has been discussed ad nauseam here. If you need a refresher, here it is in a nutshell: Thanks to cultural misogyny, women’s bodies have been made public property. Which means men judge our bodies and decide which ones are “real” or “worthy.” Women are constantly bombarded with messages that we are not thin enough, pretty enough, that our skin, hair, size, clothes, toenail polish, whatthefuckever is never good enough. Fat shaming is just another flavor of telling a woman she’s not worthy of respect, it’s rude, it’s sexist, and it needs to fucking STOP already.
Or, to make the point more poignant, would you walk up to a plus-szed woman you know and like, the point and laugh and ask how the extra large pizza was last night? I hope not.

Big (No Pun Intended) DifferenceIn my book, there’s a big difference between overweight people, and greedy gluttons who wants everything for their own selves.
Maggie falls into the latter category.
To answser your question: if the plus-sized woman was spreading slander about me and every other gay person, and was a greedy shameless glutton, I sure would!  I’d make Al Bundy proud!

There’s plenty to hate about MaggieWith out venturing beyond her brainstem, and I’m making an educated guess, that it’s petite.

LOL!There is plenty to hate about Maggie – but it’s just better to call a spade a spade.  She calls me an “abomination” because of whatever I do in my private time (which isn’t very exciting unless you’re a music collector like me).  I say she’s a “glutton”, and a proud one at that.  
Me = barely mentioned in the bible, if at all.
Maggie = one of the 7 deadly sins.
It’s not even my book, and I win!

one of the first k d lang songs I heardcelebrates plus size women
  k.d. lang & The Reclines – Big Boned Gal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Just as the men’s BEAR movement, celebrates not all sexy men have 26 inch waists, and are under 25 yo.

Glutton FalwellAnd by the way, I’m not being sexist when I refer to Maggie as a glutton – I was doing a happy dance to “Celebration” by Kool & The Gang the day Falwell died, and let everyone know I was happy to see that glutton served to Satan on a huge platter with an apple in his mouth, where he belongs.

I may not like them…but I don’t think that fat jokes against Gallagher are without at least some degree of validity.
For me, the issue isn’t simply that she is fat or a glutton, but that she has made a career out of imposing one section of her moral code on others while completely ignoring another section of that same moral code in her own life. Jesus’ parable about the mote in the eye comes to mind. Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins, so criticism of Maggie Gallagher based on her weight is a judgement against her using her own system of morality. If the criticism were aimed at someone whose faith was unknown, or whose faith did not preach against gluttony, the criticism would be tasteless and inappropriate, but every time Maggie Gallagher is criticised for her weight she is being called out for her hypocrisy. It may not be particularly pleasant, but that doesn’t mean it’s inappropriate. After all, the fat jokes aren’t necessarily a criticism of all fat women – just one fat woman in particular.
It should be noted that the same criticism could be used against Oregon Gary and Larry “The Hutt” Stickney, neither of whom could be described as svelte.

Thanks, KeoriThe reminder is much appreciated, and the objection to this kind of objectifying is too seldom mentioned elsewhere.

splitting hairs, but…The seven deadly sins aren’t in the bible either; they were made up by a Dark Ages monk.
Do we need to get into the whole ZOMG FATTIES R FAT CUZ TEHY EAT EVERYTHING IN SIGHT fallacy? Probably not.
On both counts, you don’t win. Focus on Gallagher’s reprehensible political efforts–plenty there to mock–but leave the superfluous and puerile body crap out of it.

I completely AgreeThere is plenty justification to go after Gallagher over her politics without allying her weight as part of her issue. But I gotta say the hair has got to be an open target. I just gives me the willies!

I wouldn’t trust myself to do a hair make-overShe could ACCIDENTLY get snatched bald.

You don’t know thatI can’t believe I’m defending Maggie fucking Gallagher. But that is how feminism works – you speak up against denigrating shit based in misogyny whether you like or agree with the target woman or not.
First, you don’t know if Maggie is overweight because she’s a glutton or if she has some medical reason for it, or if that’s just how her genetics work. And it’s not your business, either. To look at Maggie Gallagher and say, “She’s fat! She must be a glutton who eats everything in sight!” jumps to a conclusion that may well be false. Equate it if you like to the homohating trope that all gay people are promiscuous and have STDs. And we don’t enjoy when our enemies engage in that shit, either.
Second, going straight to the assumption that Maggie is a glutton feeds directly into the meme that fat = something bad and worthy of shame, judgmental comments, and mockery.
After all, the fat jokes aren’t necessarily a criticism of all fat women – just one fat woman in particular.
Are they? Are they really? bluegrassfool wouldn’t make fat jokes about Maggie Gallagher – one woman in particular – if zie didn’t feel perfectly okay with making fat jokes at all. Has anyone here stopped to think about how “Hurrrr Maggie is FAT” comments make our larger-sized Blenders feel? Especially the women? I doubt it, because fat women aren’t seen as people in our society, they’re seen as objects to be mocked and vilified for their failure to live up to sexist social norms that say women have to keep up an appearance that straight men like. That’s why it’s perfectly okay to lean out the car window and yell, “Mooooo!” at a plus-sized woman on the street. The same way it’s okay to lean out the car window and yell, “Fags burn in hell!” at a gay couple holding hands on the street.
Stop the fat hate already. It really, REALLY doesn’t belong here. No matter how much you try to justify it, or hang little smileys or “LOL” it, it’s still fat hate and it’s still based in misogynist fuckmuppetry.

Thank you!If anyone thinks I go around telling “fat jokes”, they’re crazy.  I couldn’t give a rats ass if you’re skin and bones or bed-ridden because of your weight.
But if you go waving some book around (that doesn’t apply to me, as I’m agnostic/Atheist), trying to control or exterminate me because of one little line, but completely ignoring the lines directed at your own self – then it’s open season on you.  And in that case, I don’t care if my “fat jokes” hurts your feelings enough to commit suicide.  In fact, I’d encourage suicide, if you’re that damned miserable.

Agree To DisagreeWe’re going to have to agree to disagree, whether you agree or not LOL!
You’re a feminist and that’s fine.  This isn’t the first time you’ve tried to indoctrinate me into feminism, and unfortunately being a high-heeled pit bull won’t attract anyone towards feminism, but rather make them run for the hills.
Plus Maggie isn’t worth my respect, nor anyone rallying behind her…..and that’s one big human shield.

I’ve noticed that people tendto say “agree to disagree” when they can’t come up with anymore arguments.

Not The CaseI agree to disagree because I’m not going into the feminist topic.
Only here can a subject begin with Maggie Gallagher, and ends with militant feminists beating down every man in sight with their high heels.
Or begins with ANY subject, with the same ending for that matter.

I was just making an observation.In any case, I’ve only seen them beating down men who make misogynist comments.

Thatand any other comment they disagree with.
I always find it silly that many people here have said “no personal attacks on PHB members – personal attacks on public figures is another story”.
Well, my personal attack was on a public figure – one who wants each and every one of us here dead, by the way.  And like clockwork, it turns out to be personal attacks on ME.
Even more hilarious, these same people say “I’d step in front of a bullet to protect Fred Phelps’ free speech!”.  Then they turn around and fire a bullet at me.
Maybe “christians” are right – most gay people are fucked up and totally unworthy of respect.  They’re no less hypocrites than they are.

I’ve seen no personal attacks.I think you’re being a wee bit paranoid.

FOUL!
I’m not wearing shoes, btw.

Making body fat an excuse for mockeryis an attack on a good number of Blenders.  No, we don’t have to like Maggie Gallagher to want to call you on your bullshit for attacking something which is true about us.
Not sure what else I should expect from an anti-feminist, though.

Get out! Personal Attack on you? Who? Where?I haven’t seen a single poster calling you a micro-dicked assclown. But if they do, I’ve got your back(side), bro.

micro-dicked assclowns everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief…I imagine

Attackig her physique is beneath usHer words and her ideas are what is objectional, not her build.
Attacking her appearance is superficial and childish, and as a feminist, I joing with Keori in decrying that kind of attackbased upon her failure to comply with men’s ideal images of beauty.
The local Right refers to me as an old hag, would any of you approve of that?

I am wearing sandalsand men who behave in the fashion that you are, and who make those kind of remarks are precisely why we need feminism.
I owe Maggie Gallagher support when she is attacked in a misogynistic fshion. Imagine that, because I believe that the community of women owe each other support, I get to support Maggie Gallagher, who would like me locked up and subjected to reparative therapy. Notwithstanding, if I practice what I preach, I DO have to lend my time, energy and iltellect to defending Maggie.
You could, as a brother LGBT, save me the trouble by not making misogynistic attacks upon her, or feminism in general.
I’m a nice lady.
For me, please?

btw I think I know that websiteI USED to post micro-dicked pictures in their Hall of Shame, for heteros who attacked me, but I’ve changed my way since then, (for the most part.)

I do agree with bluegrassfool, about public figures having more latitude to ridiculeSo I hope women public figures aren’t going to be a seperate catagory where less criticism of them is allowed, than male public figures.

and watch the FPPCThe California Fair Political Practices Commission has a complaint against the LDS for non-reporting on Prop 8. That’s CA law, for CA elections, but if the money is flowing from CA to ME then either the FPPC, or the FEC, needs to be prompted.

Oh, that great Louise…hadn’t seen it yet…

Thanks Louise….that bluegrassfoot has lots of other blogs to make fat jokes on.