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Monday, May 2, 2011

Thunder Thighs?

            Perhaps it's just me, but when I go to see someone live the first thing on my mind is not their appearance. Yet in today's society it seems that is all that matters. In one of my classes recently most of the people were discussing a Ke$ha concert they had gone too. The conversation started off normal at first, talking about how she sounded good in the front and horrible in the back. Then they moved on to the weird costumes that she and her backup dancers were wearing, and after a while to the people in the audience who apparently really enjoyed throwing bottles of glitter on everyone. For a while I just sat there listening because I hadn't gone to this concert because I didn't have the money to buy a ticket and it seemed rather interesting since I listen to Ke$ha on occasion. So after they finished talking about the show itself they all started talking about how she couldn't really sing live, kind of like Taylor Swift, and where they had been during the performance. Out of the blue one of the discussions participants says "Yeah, I was like right in front of the stage, and she's kinda thick." The comment didn't seem that out of the ordinary so I just kept listening until someone remarked with, "Yeah, I mean her thighs were huge. Thunder thighs much." That was the end of the conversation for that class, but it seems some people just can't let stuff go because the same girl who had started the discussion about Ke$ha's "thunder thighs" brought it up again in another class. She was talking to someone about the performance and the only thing she seemed able to say was, "Yeah, she was okay, and her body is okay but damn those thunder thighs!"
This is a picture taken from a recent performance in Memphis. Does anyone else classify legs like those as thunder thighs? If those are thunder thighs then what the crap are Kirstie Alley's legs* called.

              Now, maybe this isn't a big deal to most people because the media of today endorses ridiculing people for their weight as much as possible. However, to me it's sad that as humans we can't even go to see something that is supposed to be entertainment without judging someone because of the way they look. I'm not saying that saying something along the lines of "She looked different in person" is wrong, I just don't understand why you have to fixate on something so trivial as her thighs. Somehow that screams insecurities of your own to me.

 *Just because I referenced Kirstie Alley doesn't mean that I approve of weight bashing directed towards anyone. No matter if the person is in fact overweight, they most likely don't need you to point it out to them, they probably already know.

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