Allthingsspectacular said:
acosn said:
But fat people are something we need to be shaming in the same way that smoking tobacco has become a general taboo. In it's absolute worst form they'd have you believe that the laws of thermodynamics don't apply to them and that genetics is the be-all end-all of how fit you are. It's the height of hypocrisy that they can claim that while drinking soda like it's water and being set to whole grains and lean meats what water and sunlight are to witches and vampires, that their weight isn't a product of what they're shoving down their gullets while half the world starves. They'd have you believe that the 250+ pound human is perfectly normal.
To say nothing of the health risks and costs you throw on everyone else's laps as you eat yourself into obesity. We've become a society that can't tell itself no, and then refuses to accept responsibility for what happens.
Unfortunately I don't think that's really what this movie's trying to broach at all though.
While it isn't necessarily a good thing, getting people to hate themselves for it is not the way to go and solves absolutely nothing.
Yes it is. Unless you mean to tell me that fat people lack the basic human reflexes like, "Oh, that makes me fat. I don't like being fat, ergo I shouldn't eat that" then it's absolutely a good idea.
The bigger issues are the lack of real health and diet education and the misunderstanding of what a workout does.