Thanks to the Powers-That-Be that we have your example to lead the way, A. We'll all endeavor to be as perfect in future, though we can't benefit from the omniscience that you are blessed with.

This is a valuable thread and an important issue, as evidenced by the way it makes people uncomfortable. Loaded language; sensitive issue. I salute Azizi's bravery in starting the thread. Hopefully I'm not too old to learn something new.

In the thread I started here on bad album cover art, I posted a link to a cover showing a person billed as "Big George". It was a cheesy looking cover with a tall tubby fellow in a tacky stretch polyester suit with big lapels and a big frilly shirt. It struck me as funny and it still does. But someone sent me a PM asking if I was making fun of him because he was fat? I answered, "No. It's because the photo was cheesy and he billed himself as Big George." And had a song called "Blanket on the Ground".

But I guess I really was making fun of his being fat, in a way.

I really dislike the way obese people are often ridiculed as if they deserve it. People that would be repelled at hearing an uncomplimentary racial epithet or a joke making fun of someone's disability often wouldn't think twice about the feelings of the overweight. I have a lot of friends and family with weight problems of varying degrees and it bothers me to think of such callousness inflicted on them.

So on second thought, I guess I can still learn something. Or re-learn it anyway.

I still think it's a funny cover. But not in a mean way.