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Dear Ryan Murphy: I have words about Glee.
By Lesley | December 10, 2010
Dear Ryan Murphy,
Last night, at the behest of numerous readers who have asked for my take on the new "fat girl" on your show Glee, I braved the endless trailers for Tron: Legacy and ventured forth onto Hulu.com to pick up a couple of recent episodes.
It turns out my limit for Glee episodes these days is 1.35 — it was just over a third of the way through the second one that I became utterly convinced that some small furry animal, maybe a hamster high on meth, had worked its way inside my skull and was running around screaming like a man on fire. I closed the Hulu window and the sensation stopped. I think we can both agree that your show is not good for my head, though I already came to that conclusion awhile back, which is why I stopped watching it in the first place.
I don't know, Ryan Murphy; by all rights I should love your show. It has singing and dancing and it is quirky as fuck and it features an ensemble cast. These are all things I like. Part of the problem is that at some point, Glee became self-aware, and, like Skynet, turned upon all of us, we who had given it life. The Glee of today no longer serves its audience, a cheery distraction on a Tuesday night, but has morphed into an unstoppable train of high-kicking solo-belting sermon-preaching cultural ubiquity. It is everywhere now; it cannot be killed. It is made of liquid metal. There came a moment when all of the characters suddenly turned loathsome and sanctimonious, and still I watched, fearful that the show would find me in the night and murder me as I slept if I should dare to ignore it.
But I did eventually manage to survive a separation, and our time apart has done little to rekindle the spark these characters once had for me. There are exceptions, of course. Though most of the cast leaves me feeling dead inside, Chris Colfer as Kurt is practically perfect in every way. I had no opinion of Dianna Agron, who plays Quinn, until she responded so memorably to the GQ photoshoot controversy on Tumblr, which made my wrinkled little chickpea of a heart go pitter-pat. My heart, she is easily wooed by anyone who can offer a few smart and rational words in the face of hand-waving controversy, and sadly she is not wooed so often these days.
But I am delaying the inevitable: there is also the marvelous Ashley Fink.
You cast Ashley Fink as Lauren Zizes, a once-in-awhile supporting character who has recently joined the glee club on a more permanent basis. I also know Ashley Fink as Carter from the late lamented fuck-you-ABC-Family series Huge. My first exposure to Ms. Fink happened a year or so ago, when someone posted a question to my Formspring page informing me that the Glee wardrobe folks were totally cribbing my style for her character in her first appearance, evidently because there was a cardigan, mixed prints, and glasses involved. What I remember of the scene was Fink's character demanding a box of Mallomars and yes, I thought about how I do enjoy a Mallomar now and then. To be blunt, I think Ashley Fink is awesome. I will brook no argument on this point. What I want to discuss, Ryan Murphy, is your portrayal of Lauren Zizes.
Lauren has mad style. She knows her fatshion, bitches, and wears short skirts and horizontal stripes with equal aplomb. She is snarky and clever and untroubled by the shrieking dramas of the glee club. She does push-ups to amp herself up prior to a performance, and is on the wrestling team. She likes Puck and lets him know it; after bribing him to hook up with her, Puck admits, in spite of himself, "I have to say, she kinda rocked my world." She seems confident, bemused, sharp-edged, funny. If she were real, I'd want to hang out with her.
But you, Ryan Murphy, you have to go and ruin it by making Lauren's defining characteristic an obsessive love of candy. The fat girl. Loves the candy.
Now, I make a good many jokes here about the so-called "bad" foods on which fat people are said to exclusively subsist. Bacon. Cheese. Handfuls of lard. Pie. The name of this blog even has "cakes" in it. I crack wise about this stuff in an effort to both be funny and to point out how ridiculous these assumptions are. Of course most fat people don't demand buckets of candy in order to accomplish a task. There are even fat people who don't much care for candy at all. I'd rather have a cup of tea, myself. The stereotype of the "bad"-eating fatty is offensive, sure, but it can also be funny. Sometimes, it has to be funny, or else we'd all be crying (or kicking people's heads in) twenty-four hours a day. When we can bring laughter to a subject, that tends to help folks relax, and to open up the conversation to question these ideas. Yes, of course it's silly to assume that all fat people eat Crisco with a spoon, a laughing person might muse, having not really thought about these stereotypes before.
In order for this to work, once the laughing dies down, you have to make a point of the joke; we laugh, while part of us may believe the stereotype is true. Let's talk about that. But you, Ryan Murphy! Instead of dragging the absurdity of the fat girl's candy demands into the light of day and deconstructing that idea, you are banking on it. The fat-girl-eats! jokes do not interrogate these assumptions, but rely on them to elicit laughs, even supporting the notions of those who do believe that fat people are inhuman eating machines. In the episode in which Lauren joins New Directions, her compliance is paid for with candy and sexytimes with Puck — but mostly with candy. She requires candy to join, and candy to perform. By the most recent episode, Lauren is alerting her glee-club colleagues that slush from the parking lot is edible, and she is asking Santa Claus for sweet potato fries, and she is eating the popcorn the other kids are attempting to string for hanging on the tree. Her appetite seems uncontrollable, insatiable, all-encompassing. Hmm, where have I heard that before?
Ryan Murphy, I'm inclined to think that you make these jokes not out of any real disdain for fatasses, but out of a desire to be clever, to rep for the underdog. Before Nip/Tuck, you co-created a show in the late 90s called Popular, and it was another quirky series about kids in high school. Popular had two fat characters — Carmen Ferrara was played by a pre-weight-loss Sara Rue, and Sugar Daddy was played by a pre-weight-loss Ron Lester — and their struggles with self-esteem and fitting in were treated thoughtfully and sensitively, without making their size the most important thing about them. So I know that you are capable of depicting fat folks in a more nuanced way. Unfortunately, and this is my problem with Glee in general at this point, Lauren Zizes, like many of her classmates, seems more like a caricature of a caricature, rather than a real person.
There comes a moment when the eating jokes stop being funny. You may think you're turning a mirror on a culture that punishes women for failing to starve themselves thin; you may even think you're standing by the right of fat girls to eat candy, and yes, fat girls are entitled to eat according to their own desires. The problem is, Ryan Murphy, sometimes you don't get to make the in-jokes when you're not a member of the group being mocked. It makes the jokes tricky to read, and it's far too easy to see Lauren's character not as a pointed attack on the stereotype of the food-obsessed, sex-craving, unlikeable fat girl but as the stereotype itself, unquestioned, uncriticized.
Is this not what you meant to do, Ryan Murphy? Did you mean this character to be funny and shocking and maybe even a winking nod to obnoxiously unapologetic fat chicks like me? Then you fucked up. Believe it or not, I don't spend my days looking for reasons to be outraged. Those are plentiful enough that, in the interest of my own well-being, I've learned to ignore them. Instead, I spend my days looking for reasons to be happy, to feel good, to smile. You put a new fat girl on your show, and my fondest wish is to watch it and discover that it is awesome. I already think Ashley Fink is awesome to start with, so you are beginning on solid ground. But instead of making her a real character, I get a fat-joke punch line in human form.
You can probably understand why I'm so annoyed with you.
And I'm actually letting you off easy in this letter, understand. There is plenty about Glee that gives me pause. You've glossed over fat and body issues before, in that weak-ass shit where Mercedes develops and then recovers from an eating disorder in a single episode. You also have a lousy track record of dealing with disability, popular protestations to the contrary, and the most recent Christmas episode represented a horror that left me aghast and enraged, but s.e. smith has already taken that apart and I'm not going to do better here. Lauren Zizes is just the latest in a long habit of characters that fit handy slots — the disabled kid, the woman of color, the dumb blonde, the gay — but who too often exist only to service some platitude-laden Afterschool Special of a storyline. Depth seems to be optional, something we see only if it's convenient to the plot.
Fix it, Ryan Murphy! Don't be a part of the problem.
Lesley Kinzel
Fat lady, pop-culture curmudgeon, and occasional TV viewer.
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The only quote I heard of her from that episode, was "a carton of cadbury eggs, good luck finding those, they're out of season."
Good snark for someone in the know that not all fat people eat like that.
Bad for my roommates, who take glee seriously.
I don't understand how everyone loves it, I don't get how I got called homophobic for not liking it, I don't get how I'm a bad person for not wanting to watch it. Ever. I saw one episode. Nothing made me want to watch it again. I am cool with musicals, but not with mini-jukebox musicals every week. Even a few fans have written about it not being that good, I put it almost on par with reality tv in terms of quality of created characters. As time has gone on, like my hatred of twilight, the little pot of dislike I had originally for it turned into full-on-spicy hate stew, not because the show got worse, but because the fans got more crazy whenever I said I wasn't a fan.
This is absolutely perfect.
I have recently had the most wonderful experience, exposing my formerly "calories in-calories out" mantra-reciting, naturally thin and fantastically Kurt-like best friend to FA. It was almost traumatizing trying to figure out how to tell him that I'm okay with being fat, but the minute I asked his opinion on the header on my blog, he was instantaneously supportive.
Glee is something we share. He adorably referred to something in the show as "fat-ist," and once I started freaking. out. that Ashley Fink was seemingly becoming a part of the permanent ensemble, he took it upon himself to Google her and then declared his undying love for her. It choked me up.
But I've found it difficult to explain to him that not all of the fatty eating jokes in Glee are all that bad. I actually thought the tater tot incident – until the final, jarring beat of the show where Kurt accused Mercedes of addressing her insecurities about their friendship by eating – was hilarious. For his part – he was just super confused when I told him that I didn't really think that a fat girl starting a Marxist-style revolution over tater tots was really all that "fat-ist."
I think I'm going to make him read this, because you explain it so much better than I did. Thanks! 🙂
Thank you or this. I have been hoping that they would have a fat white chick join glee club. Lord knows i was in chorus (thank God we didn't have glee club). And it was really insulting the bribing with candy thing…. that was not cool at all. I can't recall in my life anyone ever doing that.
I am glad you called him out on this. Thrilled with the strong character, not taking shit from the the size 2's. (Why is it that large black girls are more accepted in movies and tv than large white girls anyway? Its very weird.)
Please send your post to Glee itself. they need to read it
Not directly related to the topic at hand, but to answer your question as to why it seems more acceptable to portray black women as larger on TV and in movies: I think it is a case of the racism in casting. How often is a black woman the leading lady? the love interest? If the black woman is always in the background, the clingy best friend, only there to support the thin, white lead, who cares if she's fat? We couldn't have a fat (or black) love interest, that's not attractive! (note the sarcasm) but as background characters, sure why not. Clearly there are lots of other factors to this, but that's the one that stands out to me. Even in Glee where Mercades is an equally important character as everyone else, she is never the object of any one's affection, and when there are nods to her having romantic interest in others nothing ever comes of it.
I wouldn't really describe large black women in TV/movies as "accepted." They are typecast in roles that are essentially updated versions of the Mammy stereotype: fat, asexual, friendly, and dependable. Sometimes they get to be the butt of jokes like in Big Momma's House or Norbit, where naturally they're played by men because they're just THAT unattractive. When they do get to be characters with some depth they're almost always tragic– think of the characters in Precious or The Color Purple. My point is just that it generally sucks to be a fat actress these days no matter what race you are.
Plus, there was the episode a couple weeks ago where Mercedes went all Norma Rae and led a revolt over Sue taking tater tots off the cafeteria menu, and then meekly agreed when Kurt told her that she was eating her feelings because she couldn't use him as a surrogate boyfriend anymore.
I'm so frustrated watching Lauren, because I love that she's snarky, confident, cynical, and funny (her telling Puck that show choir sucks was one of my favorite moments in the Sectionals episode, along with her delight over the green room drama and her rocking of Puck's world), but I shriek every time the writers give her a food reference.
I don't know why I can't quit this show; it's awful.
Remember when the substitute teacher (portrayed by Paltrow) recalled the time she got punched in the face by a big, black girl and then described her as an "attractive Biggie Smalls."
My jaw actually dropped when they showed that scene.
That was one of the most hateful things I've ever seen and I can't help but be a little shock that there's not that much outrage over it.
I know it has terrible problems, but I still enjoy Glee, mostly because I love Kurt and I enjoy a lot of the musical numbers. But Lauren is really rubbing me the wrong way, with her love of food. It's so hard to parse – I did most of my candy eating in secret at that age, and would never have demanded candy. But a fat girl who is public about her love of sweets is kind of revolutionary for those of us who expect censure for public eating. But fat people eating "bad" food in public is part of the stereotype that Lauren is based on. I can't tell if she's supposed to be a subversion or a stereotype, and if I can't tell as a politicized fat woman, how can the rest of the viewing public tell?
I really, really, really want it to be revealed that she has an amazing singing voice, because apart from the food thing she is awesome with her snarkiness and fashion sense and wrestling. I had/have a great singing voice, but I had unfortunate style and no confidence at all, and I want her to be the better version of me in high school.
Props to you for not watching Glee anymore! I get so torn and then end up watching it and getting angry. I'm starting to wonder though, if the Lauren character is being made purposefully food-obssessed so she can say to them all at some point–I was just F-ing with you all! haha. Kind of like two shole cakes.
Okay, so that is not likely. But, I can dream.
YAY!!! I've been looking for fat bloggers' takes on Lauren since I saw this week that they made her a member of the glee club. I was really annoyed with her stereotypical stuff – why can't fat people on TV be anything like the rest of us? I'm glad to see that I'm not the only fat person with issues with Lauren.
(And may I ask, why does she have to wear granny glasses that make her look "Ugly Betty"? It's like Wardrobe decided to stick her in an '80s optical salon, and not in a good way.)
I had some words for Glee, in exactly the same letter-to-Glee format as you, earlier this week (http://themovingcastle.blogspot.com/2010/12/dear-glee.html). In fact, I directed Glee to both your blog and to *HUGE* for examples of how to do fat right.
Unsurprisingly, I have the same issues as you, although I do watch Glee regularly (part of my Glee pleasure comes from the pain Glee causes me – so my critical brain goes into overdrive; it's not just all unreflective Glee-love over here). I want Lauren to be … an actual CHARACTER, not just this awful fat-girl-stereotype.
Disappointments everywhere.
I just read s.e. smith's post, and I get the point about the way disability is treated in the show. But actually, I rarely read Artie as someone we should feel sorry for. I occasionally feel sorry for him when EVERYONE ELSE ON THE SHOW fails to notice or accommodate his wheelchair, but that's them, not him. And in both the Safety Dance episode and the Christmas one, Artie's expressions of dissatisfactions with his wheelchair are provoked by his girlfriends' dissatisfaction with it. He says in the Safety Dance one that he really wishes he could dance, because it's something he'd like to do; but there's not a lot of pity and gloom about it. In this Christmas episode, Britney instigates the "cure for christmas" issue. Artie tells her, and seems to mean it, that he's fine. That it's okay. But Britney sees it as "unfair" that he can't walk, and – in a rare move for the usually pretty callous Artie – Artie wants to protect Britney's belief in christmas.
It's hardly an unproblematic portrayal of disability or wheelchair life, but my sense is that the show has been careful, with Artie anyway, to deal with his wheelchair issues as, in fact able-bodied people's issues with the chair. Artie's fine; he's not looking for pity or sympathy or a miracle cure (mostly, he's looking to get laid, a not-unreasonable attitude for a teenage boy to have). It's everyone else who gets all in a twist about his disability. Which feels, actually, a lot like what I've read disability-studies people write about – that the problem isn't that they're disabled, it's other people's reactions TO IT.
-putting a cork, or maybe some cake, in it now –
I agree on the Xmas episode that it was mostly Brittany's innocent (but abilist) desire for Artie to be able to magically walk, and not driven by Artie's own belief that he needs to be able to walk. (I still groaned with the 'miracle' because I don't think it was necessary for a happy ending and it still perpetuates that the happy ending is the 'cure'.) However, up until this point, and in the episode you mentioned before with the Safety Dance, Artie has been shown to have a pretty pervasive belief that if he could prove himself able, his life would be better. That episode acts like wheelchair dancers don't count, or worse, don't exist because the Fox writers couldn't be arsed to research and find out that they do. I mean, when they bother to show Artie at all and give him a plot besides being sexist or a prop for the other characters.
Thank you for (much more articulately) saying what I was thinking!
I'm really only watching the show for Kurt's big gay adventures right now (and hoping they don't screw them up), but I was unfortunately excited to see Carter (ahem) Lauren become a member of the club. I have delusions that she and Mercedes could become friends and be interested in fatshion together, or that Lauren could join the football team and bond with Beiste. Instead, she's hanging around to talk about eating dirty snow. Even as a fat joke, that was pathetic.
I completely see your point and am inclined to agree, but I actually liked that Lauren unabashedly loved candy & was willing to use it as a bribe. Maybe b/c I spent so much time trying not eat like the fat person (in public) a lot of people stereotype in their head.
She likes candy and doesn't hide it. It's like "I love candy and fuck you!" I would've been far too ashamed (at her age) to demand candy from anyone. However, I'm aware I'm probably the only person reading it this way and far more people see it as a fat a joke.
I agree with most of your entry, but it should be noted the Ryan Murphy was not the writer of either of these episodes. Brad Falchuk wrote Special Education and Ian Brennan wrote A Very Glee Christmas.
I just found your blog, and I think it's awesome. HOWEVER, I must chime in on a comment you made in Huge Ep. 8 recap thread (just started watching the show on Hulu, so I'm going through your great recaps after each Ep.)….
You were slamming and writing off those "get in shape!" shoes, saying "just walk!"…which I don't appreciate, since it seems as though you yourself have never tried a pair. I was skeptical but excited to try these shoes when they first came out – and I LOVE them! They are actually a great thing for some of us with fuller figures. For example, I have a large chest and bad posture – which leads to some awful backaches. Wearing these shoes forces you to have a better posture with the way they're designed, and they really help with my back pain. Also, walking with these shoes on, you really can feel your muscles working harder, and they have worked when it comes to toning (it's no miracle product when it comes to that aspect, but you will see results from regular wear). So please don't talk down a product that may actually be very beneficial to some of your readers.
I think you might be put off by the ad campaigns for these types of shoes, and I agree with you there. ESPECIALLY the new Reebok (I believe) versions, where the whole commercial is a close up of the asses of 3 or 4 anorexic looking women. That's a real eye-roller. But like I said, I find that the actual product (I have the Sketchers type, can't attest to any of the other brands) is effective in what it claims to do (the shoes obviously won't make you magically tight and toned – it's up to you to move in them).
My problem with the shoes: they're being touted as a new way of toning up/weight loss that doesn't take much effort and will produce magical results.
That explains my special hatred of them. I hate diets. They never work. This is just another diet peddled to me.
I know that you are capable of depicting fat folks in a more nuanced way
Replace 'fat folks' with 'lots of things' and this is pretty much my entire problem with Glee. There are good episodes (particularly in the first half of season one, which was obviously made before they knew what the reaction would be) that show that the show is capable of being smart and emotionally/narratively coherent all at the same time, which only makes the episodes where they don't that mucch more annoying.
I didn't mind the candy Lauren was demanding to do sectionals, because the scarcity of the specific candy was a point, and I chose to read that as her purposely asking for things that would be hard to get, just for the laugh. (almost definitely giving the show more credit then it deserves) but then they lost that good will with the snow comment.
That said, I would love if the show hooked Puck and Lauren up again.
Oh my God…season one. This week, they showed re-runs of last season's Madonna episode and this season's Britney Spears episode–and it did not reflect well at all on this season. Artie and Tina had a plotline! So did Kurt and Mercedes! It was possible to root for Finn and Rachel as a couple! The songs seemed much more connected to the plotline and weren't just random interludes!
…things have gone so far downhill so fast.
THIS! I swear, I almost cringe every time she's on screen because I know some silly food-obsessed comment is going to fly out of her mouth, cause that's ALL fat girls talk about, right? I also really hate the entire story line around coach Beiste. It's just so annoying, and they both have so much potential to be freakin' brilliant characters. My roommate and I have watched Glee since the first episode but this past season, our excitement over it has dwindled so much that after we watch each episode we just rant about what shitty and oppressive things were said. I'm only really still watching for the Kurt/Blaine storyline, I kind of block out what's happening with everyone else. Amazing post, though!
I feel the same way. I was already annoyed by the occasional nod to Mercades "fat girl" eating habits, i.e. that damn tatertots episode. But this new character is really really offensive. It's a shame that the only way to put a plus size girl on tv is to make fun of her constantly. Please, I have been plus size my whole life and though I am known to overindulge once and a while (like every other creature on earth), mostly I eat quite similarly to everyone else I know whether or not their dress size is in double digits.
I would like to respectfully disagree with you that the character is portrayed as a fashionable plus size girl. I think it is the oppose. I think that they dress her in cartoonish, sometimes ill-fitting, and often unflattering clothes. It feels to me that her very presence is supposed to be funny. Which is so obnoxious I cannot even take it. I think that they dress Mercedes as a fashionable plus size girl, but then again Amber Riley is "tv" fat, not "real life" fat. I miss the days when Glee was a fun, campy, guilty pleasure. Now it is a constant let down and source of irritation.
I completely agree with you! I think they dress Lauren in HORRIBLE clothing!! She always looks awful in my opinion, running to the stereotype that fat chicks are complete losers who can't even dress themselves as they're too busy thinking about their next meal. As to Mercedes being stylish, this again runs to a stereotype as the funky coloured woman. Don't all black women 'got' style? (sarcasm)…To a comment made way above as to why white fat chicks are always less accepted than fat black chicks, this is my take on the matter: Black woman are stereotyped to be voluptuous. The black woman's supposed to have a booty on her, and a waist…Even black culture leans to that conclusion. Take that song by the "wonderful" Sir Mix-A-Lot…'I Like Big Butts'. The song is all about women needing to have curves. Now I admit this song does not particularly say only coloured women should have curves, but if you watch the film clip, you can see it is what is inferred. It's the black (as well as latino & islander while we're at it) stereotypical culture for a woman with curves to be respected, for her curves. But tell me, how many songs do you hear about white chicks needing to have curves? The only place where white women with curves have been accepeted (to my limited knowledge) is in a Botticelli painting…in the Renaissance period when women who were well-rounded were a mark of wealth and good-standing.
What ever happened to that notion? Now I have to be honest and say, I don't think women should be overly obese but neither should they be anorexic. The female form, be it of latino, negroid or caucasian background, is (in my opinion) at it's best when there's a little sumthin' sumthin' to it. Whoever made us, made us to have some "jiggly bits" (thank you Bridget Jones)…actually, now I mention it, Bridget Jones is probably the only real movie I can think of where a white lady who is (ever so slightly) overweight is actually accepted just as she is. Even though yes, she keeps a diary and is 'trying' to lose weight, we all know she isn't really. She's just trying to find that special someone and we all doubt ourselves at some point on that quest, we all have questioned our weight as to be a possible reason we have no partner. I know I definitely have on many occasions. Anyway, minus the segue, that's my 2 cents worth…I do wish they'd let Lauren have a bit more style. Even now, they're stereotyping her as the "I don't give a shit, eat my shorts" fat girl. Can't we have a non-stereotypical fat girl? For once?
EWWWWW, I want that Lauren girl off the show! Or at least not actually in glee club. She's annoying as hell and I hate her attitude, GO BACK TO THE AV CLUB PLEASEEEE! How could you possibly say that you'd want to hang out with her? She's totally obnoxious!
Anyone else notice in "Special Education" that Lauren was the only girl wearing a shrug(?) for their performances? Immediate reaction: HIDE THE FATTY ARMS OF DEATH
Dear Lesley,
I stumbled upon your blog quite by accident, and I am so glad I did. I always thought of Glee as frivolous and kind of stupid, but I happened to see the episode about grilled Cheesus and, being a Darren Criss fan prior to his arrival on the show, have seen most of the episodes since then. I was, of course, pleased to see Mercedes as a heftier girl with great fashion sense but I don't really think of her as fat. I was also kind of upset with Coach Beaste – she is portrayed as a woman who was never loved because of her size when she, too, is not really that large, and seeing her made me a little sad for my own future.
Then, of course, came Lauren. I liked her immediately for her Cadbury comment because I do so love Cadburys and I thought that her character was bad ass…but I have the same issues with her now that you do. She is always the stereotypical fat girl – like when my friends say, "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" or they want to use the FatBooth app to see their "fat faces", I find such a cavalier and somewhat cruel reference to the idea that fat people eat eat eat kind of offensive. If, instead, the show had dealt with racial stereotypes the media would be in an uproar. Why, then, is it okay to make the fat girls lonely/sad/desperate/obnoxious or always shoving any kind of food down their throat. Lauren's character is less about the struggles overweight girls face everyday with the mirror and society and more about her next meal, and that's just wrong.
I was beginning to despair ever finding someone who has the courage to stand up and speak. I know I lack all of the confidence and self assurance, but reading your letter was heartening. Thank you.
I was just shown this tonight by a friend after just about having my fill of the blatant fat stereotypes thrown at the character Lauren. When she 1st appeared on the show I also applauded her. I was glad to see a "cool" fat chick that was funny and interesting. However, ever since she started dating Puck it's just one stupid ploy after another and it's getting to the point where it ruins the whole show to me. It's almost like getting thrown right back into high school and being frightened that someone will hate me just on my looks. Or assume I'm stupid, lazy, or mean just because of my size.
In truth, when I go to unwind and watch TV at night, the last thing I want to be reminded of is the daily struggle fat people have to deal with. This blog entry could not have put my thoughts together any more. Thanks so much for your blog and know that there are people out there with the same issues!


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Giovanni GABRIELI (c.1554/57 - 1612)
Sacred Symphonies
Vox Domini super aquas Jordanis a 10 (C64) [5:52]
In ecclesiis a 14 (C78) [7:25]
Canzon 1. toni a 10 (C176) [3:15]
O Jesu mi dulcissime a 8 (C24) [1597] [5:07]
Omnes gentes plaudite manibus a 16 (C52) [4:01]
O Jesu mi dulcissime a 8 (C56) [1615] [6:21]
Kyrie a 5 - Christe a 10 - Kyrie a 12 (C71-73) [6:43]
Maria virgo a 10 (C35) [4:56]
Magnificat a 12 (C75) [5:38]
Litaniae Beatae Mariae Virginis a 8 (C63) [12:10]
Exultet iam angelica turba a 17 (C131) [4:41]
Ex Cathedra, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Concerto Palatino/Jeffrey Skidmore
rec. 27-29 May 2012, All Hallows' Church, Gospel Oak, London, UK. DDD
For several centuries Venice was one of the most powerful cities in Italy and even in Europe. It was proud of its status and that pride was expressed in both art and music. The basilica of St Mark witnessed the splendour of music by the Gabrielis and others which in turn reflected the glories of the city. The performance of music for two to four choirs was widely admired. The liner-notes for this recording open with a quotation from a witness to the liturgy on Christmas Eve. It was one of the many feasts which were taken as an opportunity to display the musical resources of Venice.
It wasn't the only venue where such music was performed. San Rocco was a charitable confraternity of wealthy laymen which Giovanni Gabrieli served as organist. Thanks to a description by Thomas Coryat, an English traveller, we know that Gabrieli performed his own music in the church of San Rocco and the Scuola Grande. Musical practice here was hardly inferior to that in St Mark's. Various ensembles have devoted recordings to the music which may have been performed on the occasion described by Coryat. Some of the pieces on this disc may also have been composed for this confraternity.
The foundation of the polychoral style had been laid by Adrian Willaert, a representative of the Franco-Flemish school which dominated the music-scene in Europe for about two centuries. John Whenham, in his liner-notes, states that the Gabrielis further developed this style and that they were influenced by Orlandus Lassus, who for many years was at the helm of the court chapel in Munich. Andrea may have met him on one of his travels north of the Alps, but Giovanni stayed in Munich for three years. The lavish style and the contrast between various choirs can be traced back to performance practice in Munich where Lassus had an unusually large and brilliant chapel at his disposal.
It is mostly not possible to be sure when Gabrieli's compositions were written. The pieces on the present programme are taken from two collections which were printed in 1597 and 1615 respectively. That doesn't necessarily mean that the compositions in the latter collection all date from the last years of Gabrieli's career. It is notable, however, that the influences of the emerging concertante style shine through in some of these works. This is demonstrated by the two settings of O Jesu mi dulcissime from 1597 and 1615 respectively. Although they are both for eight voices and have much in common, the second setting has more declamatory passages, the voices have a greater independence and harmonically it is more adventurous. The pieces from the 1615 collection generally have a stronger connection between text and music, as we can hear, for instance, in Vox Domini super aquas Jordanis which includes an eloquent general pause after the first section.
A large part of Gabrieli's music is extroverted, but there is also more sober music in his oeuvre. A good example is the Litaniae Beatae Mariae Virginis, a long series of exclamations for the assistance and grace of the Virgin Mary. The two choirs constantly swap roles. Despite being scored for ten voices Maria virgo is also rather intimate. The Magnificat a 12 is certainly joyful which is reflected in the dominant triple-time rhythm, but not overly exuberant.
The settings of the Kyrie, the first part of the Ordinary of the Mass, are notable for their diversity in scoring. The Kyrie I a 5 has an elaborate upper part which is sung here by Jeremy Budd. He does so admirably, especially considering the high tessitura of this part, due to the high pitch of these performances (a=466Hz). In the other two sections, Christe a 8 and Kyrie II a 12 the voices are treated much more equally. In this piece old and modern come together.
The composer didn't indicate the participation of instruments as all voices are texted. However, we know that instruments were used in Venice - and also elsewhere across Europe - in various roles, either supporting singers or replacing them. As a consequence every performance of this repertoire is different, although some conventions have been established. Differences regard the number of singers involved. Sometimes Gabrieli's music is performed with choirs; Jeffrey Skidmore has opted for one voice per part. It is hard to decide how many singers were used in Gabrieli's time, but the virtue of the practice on this disc is that even in the large-scale pieces a certain amount of transparency is achieved. The choice of instruments is also up to the interpreter. The most common instruments in sacred music were cornetts and sackbuts; these are also used here, plus two theorbos and two organs.
I have greatly enjoyed this disc which offers a good survey of Gabrieli's sacred music. The splendour of the music practice in Venice comes off very well, but the more intimate aspects of Gabrieli's oeuvre are also convincingly conveyed. The balance within the vocal ensemble and between singers and players is as good as one would wish, and underlines that this is ensemble music, not music for solo voices and instruments. In some pieces I felt that the tempi were a bit too slow; also I could imagine more exuberance now and then.
In his personal notes Jeffrey Skidmore writes that not that much of Gabrieli's oeuvre is available on disc. As far as I know he isn't that badly represented in the catalogue, but a complete recording of his oeuvre is long overdue. Until such a recording is realised every contribution to the Gabrieli discography is welcome.
Johan van Veen
A good survey of Gabrieli's sacred music.
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Joining the fray of wearable fitness devices, Fitbit today introduced the Flex Wireless Activity + Sleep Wristband tracker. The company's first wristband device features sensors that can keep track of the number of steps taken, calories burned and sleep activity. It also has LED indicators to track progress. Once the data is collected, the wristband can sync the info in real time via Bluetooth 4.0 technology to a compatible device. The Fitbit Flex costs $100 and will be available in spring, and comes in five different colors, including black, red and blue.


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Debuting as a 2008 short film starring a pair of celebrity tabloid fact checkers who must verify Bill Murray's proclivities for milk (aided significantly by an appearance by Murray himself), "FCU" quickly garnered a devoted following. The film morphed into an ongoing web-series sponsored by Samsung (who's devices prove indispensable in the quest for celebrity facts) and features a revolving guest cast of bold-faced names.
The most recent installment, "James Franco Is Preggers," features the Oscar-nominated, multitasking actor in an expectant mode. Writer/executive producer Brian Sacca, who stars in the series alongside fellow writer/executive producer Peter Karinen and executive producer Tom Bannister verified the facts behind "Fact Checkers Unit's" for PopcornBiz.
This little web project turned into something very big. Has it exceeded your expectations?
Brian Sacca: We knew something was going to happen with it. We knew that having Bill Murray in a short film was going to create work. We didn't necessarily know that it was going to create a branded web-series that was going to last for a number of episodes, but we're all ecstatic about that. We've gotten to meet such awesome talent and work with amazing people that it couldn't have worked out better.
Tom Bannister: Definitely Murray doing the original short is a crucial element for people wanting to do it. Even so, wrangling the celebrities, even just scheduling the celebrities – I think going back to Season One, it was a 12-day shoot and we had nine different celebrities, so fitting those nine different celebrities into 14 straight days with two rest days was just difficult to schedule, then we had to fly in Karolina Kurkova from New York….So yeah, that's definitely one of the challenges of "Fact Checkers Unit," the celebrities. It's also one of the unique elements of the experience, and certainly in a strange way, we've enjoyed doing and working with all of those people.
Bill Murray is hard enough to get for a full movie. How did you land him for the original short?
Sacca: We were lucky in the fact that the co-writer, Dan Beers, who also directs the episodes, worked on 'The Life Aquatic' with Wes Anderson. On 'Life Aquatic' he met Bill and they became chums. Still, even if you're chums with Bill he's not the easiest guy to get a hold of, but basically Dan told him about the idea. Bill was like, 'Oh, okay.' Then he faxed him the script – because Bill has a fax machine – and left him a number on Bill's 800 number where you leave messages. Then he saw him at a party a couple of months later, and Dan was like, 'Should I mention it? Should I not mention it?' So they had a little conversation and as he was walking away, Bill just goes, 'Oh, hey, Dan, that thing that you sent me: "Fact Checkers" – it's funny. Okay, I'll do it.' That was it, and Dan was like, 'Oh my God, we got Bill Murray.' So it was one of those things that I don't think any of us believed until they showed up on set that day.
How many of the celebrities you've featured came to you and how many did you go after?
Bannister: Season One was more actors, and in some cases there were relationships. We had a relationship with Pauley Perette, and Kristin Schaal, obviously from the short, and a few other people. We tried to mix it up a little bit in Season One so that it's mostly actors, but then you've got Karolina Kurkova who's a model. You've got Dave Navarro who's a musician. In Season Two, because it was distributed through MTV, we wanted to do music celebrities. So, we really, really tried to go specifically after music celebrities. So we had Moby, T-Pain, Run DMC, Sugar Ray, Kyle Gass, and then in Season Three we just kind of really wanted A-list celebrities. We thought that James Franco would be great. We took a shot and it worked out.
Sacca: It's working with talent who are kind of looking to step out of what they normally do. It's being able to work with people like Alex Trebek and say, 'Okay, what would be fun to do with Trebek?' In that episode, for example, we were like, 'He's the father of facts. We want to do some sort of training montage. Then he came back and said, 'Well, if we're going to do that, I want to dress up as a Tibetan monk.' We said, 'Okay – obviously Trebek is game to have fun.' When he was on set cracking jokes the whole time he was down to just kind of have fun with the character that we all know him as and kind of what he wants to portray in the series.
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The James Franco episode is perhaps the funniest yet. Can you give me the background on that particular episode?
Bannister: We wanted to do a one-off, kind of standalone episode. Season Two had been launched in December, but the sponsor, Samsung, weren't launching the phone in the U.S. until April or May. So we wanted to do a bonus episode almost: a big celebrity episode. Once we got that, I think it was really designing it for James. The way that Pete, Dan and Brian write the episodes, we kind of half-come up with the idea, and then they kind of half-fit it to the celebrities.
Sacca: As the series has been progressing we wanted to step a little bit more out of reality, not be stuck within the confines of the natural world. Pete and I were talking about it, like, 'What could be a fun way to really step into new territory.' We were throwing the shape shifter idea back and forth, like, 'That could be really fun.' We hadn't really scene a lot of shape shifter comedy, I guess you could say, out there. We thought it would be a really fun way to comment on Franco's ability to do so many things as a performer. So we just kind of made a list of things that we'd want him to shape shift into and then based the episode around that.
Is there a new season in the works?
Bannister: We hope so. We're waiting to see how this latest episode goes. It's past a million views at the moment. We're certainly going to pitch some for the new season, and there's a bunch of celebrities who we think are interested in doing it. So, we're hoping that Samsung will sponsor a new season, fingers crossed.


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forChan app ousted from App Store – dangerous precedent set
forChan was nothing more than an image browser. Point and click it to an URL and oila!, images pop up. Though cute dogs are included in the app, after a little cut and pasting, you can have full-blown prawns swimming on your iDevice. But sometime in the last few hours, Apple removed it from the App Store after approving in a nearly record-time of only 12 hours (cheeky bastards). This was bound to happen, but as Gizmodo pointed out, Apple have set a dangerous precedent: forChan is just a browser. Safari, too, is just a browser.
Whether you are a prawn fan or not, Apple need to get the message that their rub and tug tactics are tiringly sick. Apple, Safari is nothing more than a browser. It also has fewer limits for prawning it up than forChan did. Serious skin fans can have a lot more fun with YOUR APP than with any App Store software.
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Pestalozzi alumnus, Vella Abur, won 3rd prize in the McGill Dobson Cup for Entrepreneurship in the Social Enterprise Track for her company Yonja. The award included seed funding of $3000 to invest in the company which they are about the launch in her home country of Uganda. The Dobson Cup is McGill's flagship annual start up competition where they award over $150,000 in seed funding to the most promising McGill start-ups.
Vella and her team have developed a mobile application where urban dwellers can request for waste collection; garbage and faecal waste from pit latrines. They have service providers on the platform and all the sanitation facilities have been mapped out. They have received a commitment letter from the city authorities and Vella's goal is to provide garbage bins for different households so they can separate their recycling, bio and non-recyclables. If they secure more funding they will decide what to do with recycling at landfills.
Photo credit: Brock Jenken, McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship
Vella was the only MasterCard scholar to make it to the finals and has worked tremendously hard to set this up alongside her university studies. She is currently studying at McGill University in in Quebec, Canada.
Vella commented "I'm grateful for the Business Meets Students program at Pestalozzi -a big thank you to Graham Card".
This is only the beginning and we look forward to hearing more about the success of Yonja and how it helps improve waste management and sanitation in Kampala, Uganda.
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Q. Is it true that alcohol has lots of calories? if so, then how can it be that people who are alcoholics are not all very fat?
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This is a picture of who I believe is Joseph, Alice and most of their kids. I think that Joseph and Alice are the older couple standing in the rear, to the right. If it's what I think it is, it's the only photo I have of them together. I love the hats, and how happy they look.


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I've received so many emails asking whether or not I'm doing my Super Bowl prediction this year, using Buffalo chicken wing bones. As you may know, we shocked the world last year with our absolutely spot-on prognostication that the Packers would win, cover the spread, and that the score would exceed the over/under line.
Well, great news! As soon as the teams are set, I'll will toss the bones, and the rest will be up to you. And by "rest" I mean withdrawing your kid's college funds and betting it all on the game. Stay tuned!
*For those of you that doubt the prodigious prognosticating power of these puny bones, I welcome you to feast your eyes on last year's prophecy. Scoreboard!


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Snooki is to higher education as hot is to: A. cold B. freezing C. frozen D. insert your own superlative/punchline here.
We don't know whether to chuckle, be aghast or applaud the news that a significant portion of students who took the SAT this past weekend were asked to write an essay that basically boiled down to "Reality TV: Good or Bad?"
Perhaps our mixed reaction is a reaction to the mixed message the essay topic sends: We ostensibly tell kids their time is better spent studying than watching junk TV, then hit them with a junk TV question on the most important test of their lives.
The answer to whether the essay topic represents a cynical dumbing down of the SAT or a stab at relevance might be best found in the backlash, which, as The New York Times notes, includes online complaints from some test takers. "I don't watch TV. I had no clue what I was talking about," one student wrote on a College Confidential comment thread.
The bottom line is many of the students who otherwise were most prepared for the high-stakes exam may have been the least quipped to write that essay. Or, as New York Daily News columnist Joanna Molloy aptly put it, "One-third of America's college-bound kids became the 'Biggest Losers.'"
The trashier entries in the Reality TV genre probably are better called "Loser TV" – even if the message is the quickest way to celebrity is playing the fool in a pop culture that fails, in very un-SAT-like fashion, to distinguish between fame and infamy (see "Shore, Jersey"). Still, keeping up with various Kardashians, spoiled housewives and others more well known for silly behavior than for using their brains might say more about us than them.
We hope the students who got stuck with the essay question at least made distinctions between such tacky, voyeuristic fare and solid competition shows where talent and hard work can lead to rewards.
News of the essay topic comes as we're increasingly being subject to lame bids to shock us, even in more traditional entertainment realms. The Times pointed out in a front-page story Wednesday that three of last week's Top 10 songs contain variations on a notorious four-letter epithet. Two planned ABC shows contain a common slur of women in the working titles and CBS, of course, broadcasts the euphemistically named, "$#*! My Father Says."
We're not the word police, and appreciate the value of provocative language. But employing strong language solely to grab attention is pointless and further inures us to the mindless coarsening of the culture.
There was plenty of cursing and other bawdy language – much of it hilarious – during the late night (10:30 p.m.) roast of Donald Trump on Comedy Central Tuesday. The least funny part was the terrible performance by Snooki's "Jersey Shore" pal, The Situation.
In fact, his bombing made some headlines during a week when the world fell into an even bigger state of crisis than usual. Maybe we need the diversion. Or maybe we need to take a closer look at a popular culture where a young man who has parlayed life as a walking stereotype into big money gets notice for ineffectively insulting a fellow Reality TV star who is mulling a run for president and has the cash to do it.
Sounds like a potential topic for next year's SAT...
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Minimum loan sum – 1 000 LVL.
The bank charges only a single payment for preparation of monetary funds (price list). This payment can be executed from the loan sum. However, it is necessary to take into account additional non-bank related payments.
Decision on loan allocation is usually taken within 1-4 working days. Upon approval of a loan with the customer, agreements are approved and singed. Changing of proprietary rights at Land Registration Book can take up to 4 weeks, mortgage registration – 1 week (usually these procedures are done at the same time). After the mortgage registration and arrangement of insurance (the bank offers IF Latvija insurance that can be arranged at your consultant), money, as a rule, is transferred to a customer's bank account within 1 working day.
It is advisable that a currency of a loan should be the same as a currency of your income. A loan in the other currency is related to currency risk – in case of currency exchange rate fluctuations, it is possible that the sum of your loan at conversion into lats in future can increase significantly. For example, 100 years experience of Finland and Sweden shows that many loan-subscribers, at the increase of the rate of a dollar as to the local currency, were not in a position to repay their loans and lost their property. Moreover, you lose money monthly for conversion.
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Maybe you would like to make one too. The applique could be done the fusing method, regular needle turn as I did, or using wool. Give it a try.
Es precioso!!!Muchas gracias por los patrones!!!
So fun, Karen. I love the star buttons on the snowman. Nice touch.
That is really cute and perfect for a gift to a snowman lover :-)
thanks for sharing the links!
Wow, I'm still waiting for the ink to dry on the copy that I printed out! Okay, twist my arm, I'll try to catch up!! You sit there and hold your breath ... LOL. Might be a good Thursday afternoon project!
You're killing me!
Not one hour ago, Claire and I were talking about how sweet this quilt is!! And here you are FINISHED!! Why am I not surprised!!! haha
What a cute little quilt. Thanks for sharing the links to the patterns. Have a great Thanksgiving!
Oh, so cute!! It'll be a challenge resisting from this one... Grrrrrrr You are such a bad news!! But I'm glad to see you are up and running with having fun sewing now :)))
How cute is that!!!
I've already printed it out. Thanks for sharing, Karen.
You're so fast! Very cute!
Such a cute quilt! You are a speedy quilter, getting it ready so quick! Congrats on having a new quilt for the season.:)
what a great little snowman quilt! I love the gold stars in the corners -
That came out wonderfully. I saw that one and like it, but I am never going to have time to do mine, no more new ones, lol.
Well isn't that cute? Thanks so much to you and Mary for the link. Will definitely have to give it a whirl. Happy Thanksgiving!
Another cute one. Where will I find the time. Glad you are back to quilting.
Funny, just downloaded it. Love your version. Mine will be in wool I think.
So cute! Thanks for the link! You were so quick to get it done!
Your little quilt is adorable. I found out about this pattern a couple days ago and it's on my list to do soon.
I printed this off the other day. I don't think I will get to it this year though. Cute!
How do you do that - make things up so quickly?? This is adorable.
How do you do that - make things up so quickly?? This is adorable.
Too cute...thanks for the link. I really love the quilt in your header! Do you have a pattern for that?
Happy Thanksgiving.
Such a cute project! I've been wanting to start a small Christmas project, but also want to stay focused on my current projects...:)
Very cute! Have a great Thanksgiving!
Gracias por el patrón, es una maravilla!!!!!!!!!!!
This little winter quilt turned out really DARLING! It's so sweet and wonderful.
So sweet, I like it!
You are up to your usual cute stuff I see! Very cute! And I love the basket quilt form your last post also!
That's just too cute. Thanks so much for sharing the link.
I love it! Thank you for sharing the link.
Very cute!! :-)
You are so dang fast :-) It's adorable. Way to go.
Lindo! Obrigada!


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An easy dinner for any night of the week! Layers of creamy goodness atop of potatoes topped with cheese - yum!
25g Anchor Butter
300ml Anchor Fresh Cream
¾ cup Anchor Fresh Milk
2 cloves garlic, crushed and finely chopped
Salt and pepper
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But then, just as you thought you were on the edge of climax of updates about this movie, Universal brusquely shoved Fifty Shades all the way to Valentine's Day, 2015, handcuffing the film until it's ready to let it go, on a holiday similarly devoted to romance as defined through relentless cliché and forced sex—knowing that, even though it may not be what the film wants, it is what it needs.
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Creative Writing for LawyersSLN #: 72263
Course Prefix: LAW-791
Course Section: 011
Credit Hours: 2
Instructor(s): Feeney
Course Description:
This class will meet on 8 Wednesdays during the semester: Dates to be announced at a later date.
The first class will be a 90-minute lecture/demonstration on how creative writing can aid and abet legal writing. The remaining seven classes will consist of a 20 minute lecture-discussion session and a 70-minute writing workshop. Each student will write and post seven writing assignments on the class web site. We will critique one another's writings every week (both on-line and in class). All students must write. Students afflicted with writer's block or unreliable Internet connections should not take this course. Reliable email service is essential. The class web site will run on Blackboard. All students should be familiar with the usual process of accessing, reviewing, and posting material to a Blackboard site.
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Credit Hours: 2
Grading Option: Pass/Fail Only
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Skills Requirement: No
Experiential Learning: No
Special Withdrawal Course: No
Limited Enrollment Number: 16
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WASHINGTON — Fearing that a seat crucial to winning a Senate majority could slip away, the national Republican establishment on Monday unleashed a furious campaign to drive Representative Todd Akin, the party's newly selected nominee, out of the race against Missouri's Democratic senator.
Amid an uproar over provocative comments on rape and abortion that Mr. Akin made in an interview broadcast on Sunday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee declared that it would withdraw financial and organizational support for Mr. Akin, including $5 million in advertising already reserved for the fall. In the interview, Mr. Akin said victims of "legitimate rape" rarely got pregnant.
Crossroads GPS, a Republican advocacy group that had already spent more than $5 million to weaken Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, considered the Senate's most endangered incumbent, announced that it was withdrawing from the state.
At the same time, Republican candidates like Mitt Romney and Senator Scott P. Brown of Massachusetts either called for Mr. Akin to step aside or strongly indicated that he should. In a radio interview, the conservative host Sean Hannity pleaded with Mr. Akin to drop out. "Sometimes an election is bigger than one person," he said.
But Mr. Akin said on Monday that he would not drop out. "I'm not a quitter," he said on Mike Huckabee's radio program. "My belief is we're going to take this thing forward, and by the grace of God, we're going to win this race."
Mr. Akin also backtracked on his comments. "Rape is never legitimate," he said. "It's an evil act that's committed by violent predators. I used the wrong words in the wrong way."
He added: "I also know that people do become pregnant from rape. I didn't mean to imply that that wasn't the case."
But Senator John Cornyn of Texas, chairman of the Senate campaign committee, personally asked Mr. Akin to step aside, a senior Republican Senate campaign aide said.
"Over the next 24 hours, Congressman Akin should carefully consider what is best for him, his family, the Republican Party and the values that he cares about and has fought for throughout his career in public service," Mr. Cornyn said in a statement.
President Obama, after weeks of steering clear of the White House press corps, stepped to the lectern at the White House to weigh in. "Rape is rape," he declared.
The furor over Mr. Akin's comments showed the sensitivity that social issues still hold for Republicans as they seek to narrow their deficit with women ahead of the November elections, even as Democrats work to showcase what they portray as extreme positions by Republican candidates on issues important to women.
The strong response also indicated the centrality that Ms. McCaskill's seat has assumed in the Republican game plan to retake the Senate in November. Republicans learned a difficult lesson in 2010, when impolitic conservative nominees in Delaware, Nevada and Colorado fumbled Senate seats that Republicans had counted on and allowed the Democrats to retain control of the Senate. Besides the Nebraska seat of Senator Ben Nelson, a Democrat who is retiring, no seat was considered a safer take-away than the one in Missouri as the Republicans look for a net gain of four to win Senate control.
Republican campaign officials said the coordinated effort to push Mr. Akin out of the race was in part a result of a tight deadline that the party faces. If Mr. Akin drops out by 5 p.m. Tuesday, the Missouri Republican central committee will be free to choose a replacement for the November ballot. He still could quit anytime before Sept. 25, but if he waits, his withdrawal could be challenged by the Missouri secretary of state, Robin Carnahan, a Democrat. Also, once the statewide ballot is printed, probably early next month, Mr. Akin would be liable for paying for any reprinting of the ballot if he withdrew.
While Republicans at the national level were in a hurry to shove him aside, Republican opinion had not hardened against Mr. Akin in Missouri, in part because of the salience of the abortion issue. "The congressman is totally, firmly, solidly pro-life," Sharon Barnes, a member of the state Republican central committee, said, adding that Mr. Akin believed "that abortion is never an option."
Ms. Barnes echoed Mr. Akin's statement that very few rapes resulted in pregnancy, adding that "at that point, if God has chosen to bless this person with a life, you don't kill it."
"That's more what I believe he was trying to state," she said. "He just phrased it badly."
Ms. Barnes said that she believed that the controversy would blow over, and that once people in the state became more familiar with Mr. Akin, they would learn "what a great, conservative, godly man Todd Akin is, and they'll put his comment in its proper context."
On Monday afternoon, well after his financial supporters had threatened to withdraw, Mr. Akin took to Twitter to declare: "I am in this race to win. We need a conservative Senate." The post included a Web link for donors to contribute to a campaign that was already running on vapors and was heavily dependent on outside support, especially from Crossroads GPS, co-founded by Karl Rove.
On Mr. Huckabee's radio program, Mr. Akin apologized for the wording of his comments, but he did not back away from his belief that abortion should be illegal in all instances, including pregnancies resulting from rape.
"I've made a couple of serious mistakes that were just wrong, and I need to apologize for those," he said on the program.
Mr. Akin had told a Missouri television interviewer on Sunday, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down," suggesting that rape victims are rarely impregnated.
Mr. Akin was never the favored party candidate to go up against Ms. McCaskill, who financed campaign commercials intended to help him in the primary this month. Republicans feared that he would be reluctant to be too negative against her, and some also privately feared the very sort of misstep they saw Mr. Akin make, providing Ms. McCaskill with an escape hatch.
The Republican establishment largely lined up behind John Brunner, a businessman, and Sarah Steelman, a former Missouri state treasurer, who in turn attacked Mr. Akin aggressively. Mr. Akin does not believe he owes the party establishment anything, Republicans concede.
Democrats piled onto Mr. Akin's comments, seeking to tar the entire Republican Party with an assertion that even many conservative Republicans called indefensible. Ms. McCaskill used national and state television appearances to press her opinion that her opponent is well outside Missouri's mainstream. Mr. Obama jumped at the chance to weigh in.
"What I think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women," he said.


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Aegina, island in Saronic Gulf, inhabited from late neolithic times and in contact with Minoan Crete and Mycenae. Early in the first millennium
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'Goat's rivers' in the *Hellespont, probably an open beach somewhere opposite *Lampacus, scene of the final and decisive sea-battle of the *Peloponnesian war, a victory over the Athenians by the Spartans under *Lysander (405). *Alcibiades, in exile in Thrace, had warned the Athenian generals (who included *Conon (1)) of the dangers of their exposed position, and may even have offered military help in the form of Thracians; but he was rebuffed. The accounts of how the battle started cannot be reconciled, but it is clear that, after several days of inactivity, the Athenians were caught with most of their ships unmanned.
Agatharchides, of Cnidus, Greek historian, geographer, and Peripatetic philosopher, c. 215–after 145 BCE
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Who lived most of his adult life in *Alexandria (1), eventually leaving, perhaps in flight to Athens after 145. He was not, as previously believed, regent to *Ptolemy (1) IX but was in the service of *Heraclides (3) Lembus. His major works, for which there are fragmentary remains, include: Asian Affairs (Τὰ κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν), probably a universal history that extended to the *Diadochi; European Affairs (Τὰ κατὰ τὴν Εὐρώπην), perhaps to his own time; and On the Red Sea (Περὶ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης) in five books (some preserved by Diodorus, bk. 3, and Photius). These large-scale histories, interlaced with *anthropology and *geography, provided a model for *Posidonius (2). He attacked the Asianic prose style, and *Photius calls him a worthy disciple of *Thucydides (2) in expression. He may have voiced hostility toward the Ptolemies, from whom he may have fled.
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Semos, of Delos, Greek antiquarian, c. 200 BCE
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