Since MTV has packed her away until next Christmas, I offer you a link to my new favorite holiday song, "XXXLMAS," as snarled by the shiny clothes wearing* "Chunky Pam" da Moanium, aka "Margaret Thrasher" of the Gotham Girls roller derby team, aka actress Ashlie Atkinson, whom I very much enjoyed in Neil LeBute's Fat Pig on Broadway a year or two ago. She was also featured fat girl in the chubby bulimic romance story line for a season or two of Denis Leary's successful TV mystery (mystery to me, anyway), Rescue Me, where poor Ashlie was forced to dally with a dim light bulb, and be grateful to have him 'cause he's conventionally attractive and she's fat.
The way the show's writers hose down every sex scene with their testosterone taint (woman gets slugged by, then happily climbs atop the man, who offers her an abbreviated, foreplay-free romp, followed by blocking her number on his cell phone), we shouldn't be surprised they'd employ a tired stereotype and write an otherwise happnin' fat girl character as romantically needy.
But Atkinson's 'tude shone through, and I hope to see more of Ashlie, Neil LaBute-ing, Chunky Pamming, and yes, even tossing her cookies in the ladies room after a good meal, if that's what it takes.
* Nod to the long gone Spy Magazine. Best dead rag ever.
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