You know, it’s hard enough to stomach cruelty directed at the Differently Animated from the usual suspects: rednecks, independent film directors, Max Brooks. But when a supposed voice for tolerance and open-mindedness defames Zombies in the very midst of a piece on how society should be less judgmental, it takes your breath away. If, you know, you have breath, which I do.

To be more Zombie Correct, it certainly gives one pause:

Dodai Stewart —If you read tabloids or ladymags, pay attention to advertising campaigns, or happen to live on planet Earth, you know that the one thing women are supposed to strive for — more than a functioning body, a healthy body, or a strong body — is a bikini body.

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What we need to admit, accept and evangelize is that there is no such thing as a “bikini body.” It’s as absurd as if we declared that there’s a “swim trunk” body for men. You cannot get a “bikini body” at the last minute, and these idealized bodies do not wander around, zombie-like, without human emotion and intellect propelling them. There are no bikini bodies. There are only women who choose to wear swimsuits, and in doing so, they do not sanction the universe to pass judgment on their parts.

So it’s wrong to pass judgment on women (which we agree with at the ZRC) as if they were pieces of meat, but it’s ok to slander an entire demographic minority with Living Supremacist prejudice and casual verbal abuse?

It’s ok to label Zombies as ‘without human emotion and intellect’?

Some forms of cruelty and second-class citizenship are clearly worse than others over at Jezebel or this particular epithet, tossed aside so casually and maliciously, would never have seen publication.

The Zombie Rights Campaign calls on Jezebel for a speedy apology and retraction to our Undead clients and Zombies the world over, who do not deserve to be judged for lacking not a ‘bikini body’ but a heartbeat or ‘normal’ cellular respiration.

We will inform our readers of any response.

Tags: Don't Use the Zed Word, Journamalism

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