If it doesn’t make you mad it should.
Fat people are pathetic, don’t you know?
They are ugly, filthy, riddled with disease, and if new studies are accurate, they all have shrinkage of the brain. Why that would make them retarded in a way wouldn’t it?
Why do we tolerate them?!
Man’s inhumanity to man comes as no surprise, but the unrelenting demonization of overweight people in our society never ceases to floor me.
They are today’s scapegoats. Want to openly hate someone? Hate a fat person. Everyone will understand.
Smokers can breath a sigh of relief (if their filthy stinking black lungs can still inhale…D’OH!). The pressure is off a little. Fat is the new whipping boy.
You won’t get an argument from me on the benefits of NOT being fat. They are many.
But why is there the need to turn the overweight into something less than human? If that seems too harsh then ok. Why make them seem like a human failure?
Of course the fact that estimates show our society to be incredibly overweight just makes the whole thing more galling.
Some point at the few TV shows revolving around the zaftig as proof society has compassion. Pish posh. First of all, TV on its face is MAKE BELIEVE people! It is not real. Not any of it. It is all carefully scripted and produced for your viewing pleasure (even the “news” but that’s another topic entirely!).
One such show comes to us from our friends in the UK. Overweight people are trotted out in all of their overeating glory to face how disgusting and gross they are…something that will shock them into wanting to lose weight. The food they normally eat for a week is all aggregated and laid out before them. The tables groan with the greasy, salty, fried load. For shame fat person!
Maybe I am a tad touchy having been humiliated and ridiculed from the moment I started packing on the pounds somewhere in the 4th grade? Maybe when I grew up and saw how I could be dismissed out of hand as not having anything worthwhile to contribute since I was fat, has made me a wee bit skittish? Perhaps it was the realization that I could not get decent medical treatment because every doctor I saw decided that there wasn’t a thing they could do for me because after all I was fat? Yes, yes, and yes.
How dare they dehumanize me simply based on the way I looked!
And now that I see the constant drumming in the media encouraging this vile behavior, I get mad.
I may not have the body size I once did, but I have never changed. And having never changed, I will always be that fat person. Others may not see it, but that weight is there. It is a part of me and has molded me into who I am today.
No better or worse than you.
Just human.
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