Quote: (11-30-2013 11:59 AM)Galnuc69 Wrote:
Quote: (11-30-2013 10:44 AM)bacan Wrote:
This is being debated live on CNN right now.. Fit Mom vs the Curvy Girls owner.,.
This is on the news? Our society is turning into an absolute joke. How is this story newsworthy? It just shows how stupid and fat the lowest common denominator in America is.
"This is being debated live on CNN right now.. Fit Mom vs the Curvy Girls owner.,."
Yes. Meanwhile my bro has spent the holidays in the hospital from complications relating to morbid obesity, including blood clots, low oxygen level, hernia, blood sugar issues, infected operation site that won't heal... All of this was due to an operation that was complicated caused solely because of his weight and complicated by it. That caused him to have to spend several days, not hours, under sedation which caused a domino effect. The docs told us flat-out the reason was his weight.
This was NOT a judgement. It was a medical FACT. Anyone, male or female, who think a doc's criticism of their weight is a sign of being "judgmental" is a self-denying asshole moron who can fuck off.
So how did this all happen? Because my family fell into the same line of thinking as the anti-fat shamers. (Obesity, IMO, is one part physical and another part a "cultural mental issue.")
Growing up, they said things like "You can be fat and healthy and thin and unhealthy." Or that fat is a sign of prosperity. Or that it's OK for men because look at the guy on "The King of Queens." They said a lot of other things too. They also figured his going to a good college and having "credentials" would make up for his out-of-control health. Sound familiar?
But there is one thing they never said. That was "Lose the fucking weight or you're not welcome in our house. OUT!"
Had they said that, we all wouldn't have just spent the last two weeks visiting him in the hospital...with no end in sight, by the way. People need to get their goddamn heads on straight about this.
My mother's father (who I never met) died at 48 from being overweight. This was in the 1950s. People have long known this is deadly. There is no excuse for the fat apologists. You want to have sympathy on someone? Try kids with cancer NOT adults who exercise no self-control and expect others to "accept" that.