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In reply to the discussion: I wish you insensitive pricks would quit with the fat shaming. The governor is horrible because he [View all]bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)gleefully embraced by many who need to feel superior. I quit watching letterman after he couldn't drop the fat thigh jokes about Clinton. I was quite appalled by his insistence on doing this because I thought him quite progressive in other respects.
Every word you said is very heartfelt and true and well stated.
I lived for a couple of years in a country that actually embraced fat people as being higher-class. It was a true education and mind-blowing experience. I came to realize how our cultural stereotypes are generated by advertisers and the need to create impossible goals to make people yearn for an image that they think will make them successful by buying all the consumer crap. It's what our country runs on. They do similar stuff to women in general. (great post a couple of days ago about how ads are designed to keep women away from tekkie stuff)
In any case, those of you who insist your condemnation of weight stems from concerns are about health are full of bs. Take a good look at yourselves. really.