Saturday, January 17, 2009

Fat Dad Daze

Join the fat dad daze here at the WC. It's just a theme, not a celebration. And it's not even fat, technically, when we take note of the fictive biopic, Notorious, a celluloid hagiography of Christopher Wallace — known rappishly both as Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls — where the son, CW Jr., plays the dad, whose own father abandoned him.

The fat in "fat daddy" doesn't have to be real. It can be a "training" tool such as the 30 lb. baby belly the South Lake Hospital straps to fathers-to-be. The idea is that giving fathers all the discomforts of motherhood with none of the benefits will make them better partners.

That plan might work for some, but one man who has many of the discomforts of mothers has been ruled as not fit for the benefits. The City Council of Leeds declared Damien Hall too fat to be allowed to adopt a child.

To sum up today's FDD: we have a real man turned on screen into fake fat dad, fake fat and a real desire denied thanks to real fat. What a world.

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