Life Rant

funny, i wrote a blog about fat asses too, and then i posted it on reddit, at which point i got reemed out by several users. i guess nobody wants to face reality.

also, regarding your post: it seems to be fine to put fat men on television (commercials and/or actual shows). america has also deemed it acceptable that men be overweight. when was the last time you saw a fat woman on television, besides Oprah and Paula Dean?

Which is fine by me, because I don't want to be looking at fat women.

Yeah, it's pretty funny and scary at the same time. I'll wait to see what kind of comments I get over there.

In regards to your second comment, yeah, I've noticed on more than one sitcom how the husband is some schlub with a beer gut while he's married to a petite little cutie. In reality I've seen more cases of the opposite, where the wife is overweight and the husband is relatively fit.

Vic

well, if you think about it...

a man watching a sitcom probably has a gut. most americans do. so he sees the guy on tv (king of queens, for example) as himself. he then sees a little hottie wife, and thinks "that guys is the man!" and the television execs are happy because people watch the show.

then you have the women. most women like to think they're petite and attractive, so when they watch the show, they see a petite, attractive wife and can relate (or so they think). then they see the husband - some fat schlub - and they can again relate - "hey, my husband is a fat-ass too!" Once again, the television execs revel in their masterminding of television audiences nation-wide.

Ha! Great analysis. :-)

Well, the reality you'd have to face is that body mass is not highly correlated with caloric intake.

A very high proportion of body mass is genetic--only a small amount if any responds to dieting, and it's typically not the amount that would take someone from say, the kind of fat person you despise to the thin person you want to be/masturbate to. Successful diets are so rare despite the huge industry behind them that "results not typical" has to be added when they show one that works. Of people with weight loss surgery, which means a stomach amputation that limits the size of meals to several spoonfuls a meal, out of that group 90% regain all lost weight within five years. The world hot dog eating champion is a skinny asian guy.

Of course you're pretty sure "reason" is on your side here because you just know you've seen fat people eating eighteen hamburgers, starting out skinny but getting to be huge with McDonalds binging... now, you've actually seen that, right? That's your mom or dad, or your girlfriend or boyfriend, right? You didn't just see that in some movie made by other people like you?

Greg,

Oh please. Was there some sort of genetic mutation that has occured in the U.S. population in the last 40 years that has not affected the rest of the PLANET? Why was the obesity rate so much lower prior to the 1970's? (Maybe it was gamma rays or something, eh?)

I am so sick of the "it's not my fault" argument.

What about the recent SPIKE in childhood obesity? More "sudden" genetics? Give me a break. Parents are feeding their kids fast foods, protein bars, soda, etc. and then they wonder:

A. Why their kids "won't" eat healthy foods. (Duh, junk tastes sweeter/more addicting).

B. Why their kids are getting fat.

The crap we're eating these days in the name of convenience is more calorically dense (less feeling of fulness from more calories), plus it contains high fructose corn syrup and/or hydrongenated oils, repressing the natural "I'm full" feeling plus the fact that sugar causes one to crave more sugar.

Type II diabetes which is increasing rapidly in both adults and children is NOT genetic bub, it's caused by overeating the wrong kinds of foods and the resulting massive increase in bodyweight.

Vic

i'm vomitously sick of the "it's genetic" excuse all fat people use to describe the real reason they're not getting up from their couches and walking a mile instead of considering exercise the battle they have trying to open the poptart wrapper.

give me a break.

anyway, who the hell would masturbate to images of a jiggling fat person?

I watched an Oprah program with Dr. Phil about weight management. Oprah asked Dr. Phil something to the effect "Aren't there people who are just naturally slim and don't have to watch what they eat all the time?" To which Dr. Phil replied something to the effect "Yes, but obviously you are not one of them so what difference does it make." She laughed and admitted the truth to that statement. So what if genetics make our metabolism faster or slower. It is still a simple math problem: calories in (food) vs calories out (metabolism and activity). I don't agree with the media portrayal of the skinny waif with bones showing. That's not reality. Nor is the 6-pack abs model. Give me a break. I work 40 plus hours a week, I have a family life, I like to get some sleep. I don't have time to have a 6-pack, but I do have time and make the time to exercise enough to be healthy. I do mostly eat healthy foods, but hey, I'm human, I enjoy that chocolate or wine too. I'll never be a model, but I am healthy.