Quote: (08-03-2015 10:33 AM)samsamsam Wrote:
Quote: (08-03-2015 02:09 AM)Noir Wrote:
Who knows, maybe this will inspire more fatties to run.
Glass half full gentlemen..
Doubt it, fatties are not inspired by much. Generally just emotionally eating. If they got inspired by anything they would have been working out a long time ago. It isn't like they add 200lbs over night. Surely, at some point the brain might say, you know maybe 10 twinkles a day is ok but the 20 I just ate in one sitting might be too much.
It is because they are defeated and thus don't give a fuck. That is why they yell and scream the loudest about being picked on. The mouth is the only trained "muscle" they have.
Bottom line a person who doesn't give a fuck, doesn't get inspired or motivated. They are unpredictable in a bad way.
Plus, if fatties started running every city would need to triple the size of sidewalks. I bet injuries would go up. Not for the fatties, but for the poor souls that fatties run into with the limited ability to control themselves.
Edit: just thinking about walls of crisco running toward me gives me the shudders.
Preach man. If it was a fit/hot woman, it would be motivating to fatties who -may- have a drop of work ethic. My point is that it appeals as they can relate, somehow.
I admit, cannot comment on how fat people are viewed on the other side of the Atlantic as I do not live in the USA nor have I ever been.
South Africa has a high obesity epidemic (31% similar to USA's 33%) and this is due to people not being able to afford proper food, mainly in townships, (eat starchy, cheap filler meals) as opposed to not giving a shit.
Therefore, the root causes are different. Still- I have a pseudo-optimistic outlook on this and a lot of people, myself included, hate on fat people but I really do not see this cover as a negative. This is one of the most 'positive' contexts of fat people in the media; exercising. Sure, it glorifies/pedestalizes them but I thought this forum would be semi-pleased after all of these 'fat-acceptance' trends. The pictures message being 'lose-it'.
Then again, I am fortunate I live in Cape Town where people, especially women, are super-vain and take meticulous care of themselves (it's purely a class thing and people I come in to contact with) so the only fat women I notice are single moms or ones who have shitty incomes and eat for similar reasons (emotional or financial, both linked).
An ugly woman is a lazy woman.
Anyways, there goes my 400th post, discussing fat people.