Quote: (09-08-2015 10:44 PM)nek Wrote:
Quote: (09-07-2015 01:24 AM)samsamsam Wrote:
Some person commented on the fat chick's reply.
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Yeah, losing weight is more complex than just putting down the fork for a lot of people. There can emotional and psychological issues tied into that behavior which often need to be addressed before real progress can be made and maintained.
Now I have heard this before, and I actually agree if your are emotionally out of control, I think you do all sorts of shitty destructive things to yourself and others.
But why not seek treatment and help? Not treatment and help to accept being fat. There is plenty of that bullshit.
Seek treatment and help for the issues that drive a person to eat too much and not exercise?
I don't think #healthybody or #bodyacceptance is the right campaign if these people are truly trying to get healthy.
Shouldn't it be #healthymind #findsanity #don'tgiveup?
I do think people reach a point and they just say fuck it and they never recover from that. Well 99% don't. We need people to stop reaching that moment of saying fuck it and then diving into a million calorie carb binge.
Ironically, for a lot of these people, the treatment for their emotional/psychological issues would be diet and exercise. Actions follow feelings, but feelings also follow actions. Sometimes the motivation to workout is the result of simply getting under the bar and doing your reps, and not something that necessarily appears before. You have to will yourself sometimes, and then you get the motivation afterwards. It's like the movie Three Kings, where George Clooney's character says to the one guy " you do the thing you're scared shitless of, and then you get the courage to do it". The guy, confused, replies, "shouldn't it work the other way?" In a perfect world it should, but it doesn't always. It's a cycle that they simply need to break by doing something, anything, that is a step in the right direction.
In a sane world, what you're saying would resonate with people.
But we no longer live in a sane world. We now live in a world where logical advice is considered "shaming" or "victim blaming" and can get you in a lot of trouble if you fall on the wrong side of the online witch hunt mob.
There is an old song from the '80s called "The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum." That should be the theme for today's Social Justice Warriors. They're upending all the things you thought were sane and moral and replacing them with the insane and immoral.
So...Telling someone to exercise = shaming. Telling women to look out at night = victim blaming. Is it any wonder comedy can no longer flourish in our society?
Anyway, the fringe people we used to ignore have now taken center stage. These people were the ones who were barely tolerated on college campuses and/or the demonstrators who were too "radical" for the legitimate protesters. They're now running the show thanks to social media.
When man invented fire, he gave his fellow humans not only the means to cook and stay warm, but the means to torch the village. The same is happening now with social media, metaphorically speaking. The first 15 or so years of mainstream Internet life were pretty normal. Now the arsonists hold sway.
As for this comedian, the SJW crowd made her. She was somebody no one noticed until she got banned from YouTube. Then it became An Issue. In a few weeks, everyone will forget her and be onto the next crisis when the mob goes on to torch the next village...