Monday, March 9, 2015

I wanna dance with somebody who loves me.

Bosom friends!

Let's start this week with a touch of assholes and a dash of "let's stand up for what is right".

Here is the doodle:

A London man who was body-shamed online after someone posted photos of him dancing is now getting a special dance party.
Photos mocking the "Dancing Man” were first posted last month on the ever so polluted social media universe.


 The caption to the pictures read:
"Spotted this specimen trying to dance the other week, he stopped when he saw us laughing." (anonymous user...coward!)
The image was shared on social media, including Reddit and Twitter.
The photo caught the attention of Cassandra Fairbanks, a writer at The Free Thought Project in Los Angeles, who decided to speak out in support of the man and throw him a dance party.
She shared the photo on Twitter on Thursday, with this message: "Anyone know this man or who posted this? There's a huge group of ladies in LA who would like to do something special."
It only took 12 hours for Twitter users to find Sean, using the hashtag #FindDancingMan. 

And now even celebrities want in on the party, with Pharrell tweeting, “Hey @CassandraRules keep me posted about your dance party! @Dancingmanfound, never be ashamed of yourself. You are both truly #OTHER.”
And Moby offered to DJ the party. “No one should ever be ashamed about dancing,” he said in a Tweet.
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseumm has agreed to host the event, which has already raised more than $30,000 online. The date hasn’t been set yet.
Sean said in a Tweet he’s trying to keep a low profile until he arrives in Los Angeles for the big bash.

I do have mixed feeling about this whole lovely bed time story.

Whatever we do and however we look like while doing it has been, is and will be judge by others. Positive, negative or (most of the times) unwanted, judgment happens to us just like getting diarrhea or finding out that the ever so dreaded cold sore is blossoming on our upper lip right before our high school reunion.
Judgement is a fact of life just like the fact that the mothers of assholes are always pregnant.

I am all for "be who you are", "dance like nobody is watching" and "live and let live".
That being said I found a bit strange the out pore of support the dancing man got after his cyber bulling saga.

Indeed he was cruelly made fun of and exposed without his consent. IT IS WRONG.
I agree with that 100%.
What I don't understand is: was he made fun of because it's socially unacceptable for an over weight person to display "Joie de vivre" or because he is chunky or because he is an overweight man dancing or because his dancing styling was not up to standards or because all of the above?
The dancing man is factually over weight. I am not referring to that from an aesthetic point of view. No at all. My concern is that he is not an healthy man. We should be free to be who we are and all of that nice stuff but when it comes to health I believe we are entering a whole different territory.
To me, real support to a guy like that would be giving him a good wake up call and help him improve his life style so that he can go on dancing for many more years.
It's all well and good to show support for someone who has been body shamed and mocked all over the Internet, but we are not solving the problem, are we? We are basically ruffling some feathers to make the topic trending.
The ladies who are relentlessly working to make this dancing event happening made me think.
There are so many other people out there fighting to be accepted for what they are. The people I am referring to are the ones who are discriminated for something they can't help: being of a different ethnicity, being disable, being homosexual, being women and the list sadly goes on.

Being over weight can be helped.

Yes, the dancing man has every right to look they way he does and to dance till the sun comes up dropping it like it's hot.
However, as any of us he should also have shoulders broad enough to disregard the idiots who bullied him and keep on fucking dancing!
This consideration is coming from a guy that has been shamed for most of his childhood and I am sure we all know that those wounds heal but the scars are quite ugly. Myself and many other children and adults have been there plenty times. We didn't have an entire organization plus Pharrell and Moby planning a party to make us feel better. We rolled up our sleeves and dug ourselves out of the shit we got buried in.
It's commendable what those ladies are doing to raise awareness on the bullying topic but I fear a hand full of celebrities and a disco-ball won't do much for the rest of the outcast who are not getting any social media exposure and most importantly cannot help what they are being shamed for.

Have you seen what ISIS is doing to gay men?
Have you seen how female victims of rape are being sentenced in Saudi Arabia (Gang-raped Saudi woman sentenced to 200 lashes, 6-months in jail)?
Google it.
It won't make you wanna dance.

Those victims should have the world attention.

The dancing man should just be given his privacy back and recommended a good dietitian.

Ciao for now.

2 comments:

  1. I agree!! Jissis what the flippen heck must happen to make people notice the real shit, that guy got fat by his own hand, those raped women did stuff all, help them for GOD sakes!!!

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