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Friday, August 24, 2007

He ain't fat, he's... A little big-sized?

I first refer you to this article.

The title of the article is "Why fatties say everyone's to blame but themselves". It talks about how fat people give excuses for being fat, like bad genes or wrong moral influence, instead of admitting that they had simply ate too much.

Well what I have to say about that is that I don't blame problems for my being fat. Nope.

I blame being fat for my problems.

It's on the same level and yet so damn far apart. Damn, I love wordplay like that. But you know, it's true. And it's not like I'm ashamed of it.

The thing about this world is that people see fat people the way Hitler saw Jews. We're the undesirables, the ones that are preventing us from achieving a pure world.

They say obesity is an illness, because like diseases they cause bodily functions to fail and dramatically shorten your lifespan.

You see what I don't get is that... If we're going to live shorter anyway, why are you giving us so much grief about our lives? Can't you just treat us like other people? Respect is probably a very good start.

You say you are helping us. How are you helping us by attaching a social stigma on us that only lepers and HIV-positive people can beat? Obesity isn't contagious. Lousy attitude against a group of people is contagious.

Just look at what they did to Muslims in the West.

Of course it's only because the angmohs have so much fear and paranoia in their minds they'd probably blow themselves up before any 'terrorist' actually does it.

But let's get back to the topic.

Why this fear of fat people? Children are taught from young to ostracise and humiliate the overweight. And out of what? Fear! But why is that? Oh you can claim that they are not being "taught" per se, but look at the influences!

In TV shows and movies, fat people fall under the following categories:
1) Mindless henchmen of the suave, psychotic evil masterminds who eventually get easily overcome by the handsome, dashing hero with shiny teeth, paving the way to a final showdown.
2) Goofy sidekicks of the romantic protagonists, who exist for the purpose of comedic relief, and are always either giving bad dating advice or demonstrating it.
3) Overbearing bullies in an academic environment, who eventually becomes defeated by the small, weak-looking kid and becomes a laughing stock of the whole school.
4) Perverted nerds/geeks who exist to live in one room (his own room in the East, his mother's basement in the West), and exists so in a wearing-nothing-but-dirty-underwear, junk-food-all-over-the-body, speaks-with-a-squeaky-voice manner.

It's almost like the case with the midgets (or everyone else), except at least we had Nutty Professor. Thank you Eddie Murphy!

But then again, there was also Norbit. Fuck you, Eddie Murphy.

You see the whole point is that this stupid tag that fat people live with for the rest of their lives is stuck on them forever. Until they create a miracle and lose weight. Then that is, of course, when they jump onto the bandwagon and start chiding the overweight too.

One more thing I want to discuss about is this apparent... Desire to be in the "fat club". By whom, you ask. Girls, of course. What am I talking about? Simple.

If you have honestly never talked to a girl whom you think is of acceptable weight or underweight and has told you she thinks she fat, you are free to contact me and I'll hand you ten bucks. Really.

This goes into my "Girls define hypocrisy" folder. If there's a social stigma attached to the obese, why are they so eager to attach that stupid tag on themselves? Does it attract sympathy? Or free slimming programmes which they don't need?

That I would leave you to think about. Obviously because I have no answer. If I could answer every question you had about women, you would expect me to be this ladies' man who changes partners week in, week out, and not blogging. Which is what I'm doing, hello.

Fat is no longer a description, it's an insult. Like how calling a retard is a retard is insulting. It's so stupid. Alright fine, I'll admit that I still want to punch out the face of the next person who calls me a fat ass, but only because of "ass" and the negative intent!

So my whole point is really this: I, or rather, we don't need your help for being fat (other problems maybe). We only need some basic respect as people.

The very least you could do is not to start frowning like somebody just told you off the moment we step into a room with you. In case you don't know, it's very noticeable if you happen to be with a group of friends and was smiling and laughing away a second ago.

We're dense but we're not dense.

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