The Fat Woman's Joke

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Living in a basement flat in Earl’s Court, I could smell the damp coming off the walls and ceiling. This is where Esther hides from the world and eats. And eats. It is her buffer against a society that doesn’t understand her. And that she cares even less to conform to. A woman who was rather on the large side turned up at the theater just before the performance was due to start.

You are such a big fat person that I hear companies reach out to you to advertise on your forehead.” Alan and Esther have sunk into fat, middle-aged complacency. After an acerbic dinner party they decide to go on a diet, and that is the catalyst for the breakdown of their marriage, hunger fueling their dissatisfaction with each other and their dull lives. A true suburban stereotype, Alan turns to Susan, his secretary, whilst Esther moves into an unpleasant basement flat and takes her revenge on a looks-obsessed society by constantly eating. Plenty of pithy one liners and observations. A laser eye showing that really, most of us aren’t particularly happy, and feel the need to conform in one way or another. Even the most rebellious are following a formula. During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate.” Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-07-21 01:04:23 Boxid IA1874415 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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From the fastness of her Earls Court retreat Esther starts to recount the events leading up to her revelation to her friend Phyllis. ‘I suppose you really do believe your happiness is consequent upon your size?’ she asks. Phyllis does; Esther does not and triumphantly sets out to prove her point. Lccn 98003146 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA18360 Openlibrary_edition Why did the woman bring a car door to the desert? So she could roll down the window when it got too hot! Why are fat girls the best for giving or@l pleasure? Because they can’t stop shoving things in their mouth.

DIV Bestselling author Fay Weldon delivers a scathing satire about society’s obsession with female weight and beauty in the 1960s, as relevant today as when it was first published This study raises several issues of general relevance to contemporary writing and criticism. The role of the media in presenting both author and oeuvre, the position of the woman writer vis-a-vis feminism, the confrontation of feminism and postmodernism, the question of popular versus high art forms, and the emergence of the author as public oracle are considered in relation to Weldon's considerable literary output Remember, jokes should always be shared with respect and consideration for others’ feelings. These jokes are meant to be lighthearted and not intended to offend. Enjoy the laughter and share the joy!Why didn’t the fat lady think her weight was a problem? Because heat makes everything expand so she must have been a pretty hot woman. Weldon had little time for the ideology of transgenderism. She fully supported the right of people to play about with their gender, but she didn’t believe men can become women. Like her old comrade in second-wave feminism, Germaine Greer, she thought that ‘just to get one’s genitals chopped off doesn’t make you a woman’. In Death of a She-Devil – her 2017 sequel to The Life and Loves of a She-Devil – the once bitter wife Ruth Patchett is now a feminist tyrant whose grandson transitions to become a ‘woman’. ‘If you can’t beat us, join us’, Ruth tells him. Weldon didn’t mince her words – the trans ideology is not an extension of feminism, but its negation, she suggested. ‘Man now controls the best weapon woman ever had, the body he so envied, its very moods and subtleties. He can become her.’ Men in dresses were never going to fool a freedom-fighter like Fay. She could spot unjust male power even when it was wearing lippy. This is an insightful novella by Fay Weldon, told with her usual acerbic wit and wisdom. Is it really about being overweight? Yes and no. The added kilos and our relationship to food is shown as part of a wider societal judgement. Assuming that people on the larger side are lazy, unfit or don’t care about themselves, and that their thinner cousins have it all figured out and must surely be much happier and content. With better social and love lives. I bet you have so many stretch marks that when someone yells out, ‘hey, stretch!’, everyone knows it’s not to do with yoga.