fiatlux wrote:
This is where I tend to get inappropriately serious. Personally, I find this person gross beyond words. I am deeply prejudiced against fat people. I do not understand how someone could allow it. Yet mockery of someone like her, though part of me may cheer, makes a mockery of me. Jesus is the Fat Lady in the Circus. Jesus is the welfare queen and young buck taking drugs on our dollars. Reagan did great work in making poor people ugly and bad, even threatening. No soul, just empty pockets looking to be filled by suckers for chips, candy, and drugs.
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At least, as wrong it is, you admit your prejudice. That's good.
Personally speaking, I see a woman who has a serious health issue. The women in my wife's family have a genetic propensity to be overweight. Believe it or not, it's a medical fact. My wife (through the fear of becoming more morbidity obese than she was, developing diabetes, joint issues, not to mention the social ostr****m from dim-witted people who find it "fun" to make others feel bad about themselves, just to name a few negatives), had gastric bypass surgery 10 years ago. She's now, "half the woman she used to be." Also, she's a lot healthier. And, after getting her "total body lift," to get rid of a LOT of excess skin, has a figure most 35 year old women (she's 55) would die for.
Fortunately, for us, our insurance covered the costs of her surgeries, although it took a letter from her doctor to get her "total body lift" approved as a deduction by the IRS. Most insurance companies have made it increasingly more difficult for people to qualify for any weight loss surgery. I suppose that instead of paying $30,000 to $40,000 for weight loss surgery and a body lift is somehow cheaper than a lifetime of paying for insulin treatments, plus the replacement of hips and knees, not to mention the costs of back surgeries and a lifetime of addicting pain meds and the myriad of other medicines needed to counter the effects of being overweight.
Now, just going by the woman's "looks," I'd say that she might fall into the group of people that can't afford health insurance. As such, if she has a genetic problem that may contribute to her being overweight, and can't afford medical help, blaming her would to some, be the right thing to do.
Given some of the responses that have been posted on this thread, I've come to the conclusion that the reason some "normal-weight" people stay "normal-weight" is because they burn up so many calories jumping to the wrong conclusions, bullying and mocking people they find "different."
The sad thing about that is, is that it, itself, is a very "sick" diet.