Francesca — A Fattie in Trouble
From
Janus 27
Francesca
utterly loathes having to do any form of physical exercise. With a figure like
hers it’s embarrassing trying to compete with her fellow pupils, plus she hates
the exertion involved. She far prefers stuffing cream buns into her face —
which she does at every available opportunity. At netball practice she hides
around a corner hoping she won’t be noticed. But who’s this coming now but the
Headmistress herself!
‘What’s
this?! Trying to get out of netball practice again, Francesca? You should be
thoroughly ashamed of yourself, you lazy girl! This is the third time this term
I’ve caught you hiding around here! Do you never stop eating, you disgusting
creature?! Follow me into the gymnasium at once!!’
Not
for the first time today, Francesca the school fattie looks and sounds as if
she’s about to be sick.
‘Over
the horse with you, you useless good-for-nothing lump of lard! You know
perfectly well that cutting a lesson is a serious offence — but you are still
trying to avoid PE and school games, and you are still eating in unauthorised
places and during lesson time too! I can see that writing lines has had no
effect at all. It’s the cane for you, Francesca! I warned you you’d get four
strokes if I caught you again, and four strokes it shall be…’
Poor
Francesca’s gym knickers have ripped from the unaccustomed stress of bending
over, but to make her plight even worse the Headmistress makes her pull them
down and straddle the vaulting horse with her feet off the ground. Flab
wobbling like an inedible jelly, a hideous sight to see, the lazy disobedient
fattie now has to endure four absolutely agonizing blazing cane stings across
those outsize buttocks.
And what a fuss she makes!!


This was memorable as something of a departure from the norm. Were it not for Paula Meadows' drawings, which take the text at its word regarding Francesca's size, I'd re-imagine this as a story in which a girl who is in fact only slightly plump - and sexily so - is body-shamed into thinking she's fat, harangued by a super-fit bitch of a games mistress.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. One should make a point of calling girls fat anyway.
DeleteThey are very sensitive about the size of their bottoms of course (and their tits) so it’s rewarding to exploit this. It’s especially suited to corporal punishment when they are already embarrassed about baring their bottom (ideally before a complete stranger), and they know that when they’re in position, the caner can see her (“big fat”) bare bottom, and the girl can’t.
That would have made for a hotter story. More Blushes than Janus, probably. But in the Janus vignette, it's charmingly comic-strp in tone. The likes of Beano and The Dandy encouraged bullying of fatties.
DeletePleasantly plump but really worked over during her extra PE sessions for fatties. Harried up and down the wall bars, the vaulting horse and an excruciating sit up and toe touching session. Encouraged by the frequent application of the tawse, lots of unpleasant name calling and the laughter and jeers of watching sixth form boys. I have Janet Ellis in her leotard front of mind!
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