hypocrisy rant

Normally the Fish Head only writes about booze, football, cigars, and the occassional weird oddity that catches his attention on the Internet. Politics, religion, or any serious or controversial topic, might be of interest, but of the private kind, not the public kind.

In recent years, the Fish Head has lost interest in professional sports due to the many and sundry forms of hypocrisy exhibited by the players. Its hard to be interested in a game when the players are making millions of dollars and at the same time bitch and moan about their salaries, demand more, and don't play hard. Why would the Fish Head pay $100 for a ticket to watch a gaggle of grossly over-paid greedy prima donnas pretend to go all-out?

Today the Fish Head learned that hypocrisy is not just a sports phenomena. While reading the week's snail mail, the Fish Head stumbled across People Magazine, which featured a quite unflattering picture of celeb Jennifer Love Hewitt. Miss Hewitt was enraged by the fact that the media was taunting and dissing her for having put on a few extra pounds. Why was she enraged? Well of course, because the public's attitude towards her, would engender unhealthy body images in the minds of young girls.

Hmmmm....lessee. Normally the Fish Head might agree with this concept, being generally supportive of women, and also generally supportive of women being naked in his presence and feeling comfortable about it. But....isn't this the same Hewitt who has, in large part, become rich and famous by flaunting her supra-natural figure in lingerie on the covers of Maxim, FHM, and various other skin mags? Yes, the same Hewitt. So when she was earning a rich living, in part by selling the viewing of her un-naturally perfect body, that was cool with her and wouldn't have engendered any body image issues for other women who could never look that insanely perfect. But now that her figure is merely nice and natural, any commentary on the change or focus on her appearance might damage the psyche of the female population.

You can look it up for yourself, but the definition is "Hypocrisy is the act of condemning another person for an act of which the critic is guilty". And the Fish Head judges Miss Hewitt's reaction as the most obvious form of it.