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Do most Americans fat or not enjoy hearing about fat people who want to lose weight, but yet they keep on eating all the wrong foods? Do we have a fascination with looking at shows that exploit fat families? I guess this reality show will be humorous to most along with the other new one that is out. Obesity is one of our major health problems here in the United States and I do not think shows like this are helpful nor are they entertaining IMO!!
We are a nation of do-nothing voyeurs, to a point. We enjoy watching others from the safety of our homes and living through them. We fantasize about being "the biggest loser", choosing from 20-some bachelors or bachelorettes all vying for our love, winning the "great race" and all the money, becoming the "American Idol", etc.
At the same time we watch not only the winners but we watch (even more) the losers, whom we judge, mock, laugh at, and hate upon.
This way we feel "normal" - we are not the winners (but we believe we could one day be, because the "winners" are all "normal" people who caught their break) but we are DEFINITELY not the LOSERS (except for the "Biggest Loser" who is actually a winner ) who are stupid and vain and immoral and jerks and will never find happiness and will blow the chance to be the winner, as they've proven in the reality show.
That's why reality shows like "the biggest loser" are so popular, and that is what we're obsessed with - not obesity, but the winner/loser aspect of it and how it helps us live a fantasy life. Because after our voyeurism and fantasizing, we get up the next day and eat crappy food and do the same things we've always done.
We are voyeurs, dreamers, and escapists, and once in a while, if we're lucky, we learn something about ourselves that help us to make a positive change - but for the most part we don't change a thing.
Overweight people are the next target for the judgmental, hypocritical, self-righteous health-Nazis who think everyone should be just be just like them. They think they've gotten smokers beaten down into submission, so they're moving on to the next group of Untermenchen.
Such programs as "The Biggest Loser" are just conditioning people to laugh at others who are different, treat them as objects of pity and scorn and laying the ground-work for new, intrusive laws for "their own good." It's already happening and every time you watch one of those shows, you make yourself part of the problem instead of the solution.
And, that solution is NOT to help fat people live better as you see it, but to accept them as they are and get off your moral high horse.
Overweight people are the next target for the judgmental, hypocritical, self-righteous health-Nazis who think everyone should be just be just like them. They think they've gotten smokers beaten down into submission, so they're moving on to the next group of Untermenchen.
Such programs as "The Biggest Loser" are just conditioning people to laugh at others who are different, treat them as objects of pity and scorn and laying the ground-work for new, intrusive laws for "their own good." It's already happening and every time you watch one of those shows, you make yourself part of the problem instead of the solution.
And, that solution is NOT to help fat people live better as you see it, but to accept them as they are and get off your moral high horse.
More than one-third of adults, or over 72 million people, were obese in 2005-2006, the NCHS said in its report. The number of obese Americans now outnumber people who are simply overweight.
I confess. I'm an unrepentant people-watcher. Short, tall, skinny, or fat - people in general just amaze me. Nothing like sitting on the bench in the mall while my girl is shopping watching all makes and models walk by.
The Biggest Loser is at least motivational....but the TLC show about the obese black family is just, wrong. I hope the family is making money off of it at least.
Overweight people are the next target for the judgmental, hypocritical, self-righteous health-Nazis who think everyone should be just be just like them. They think they've gotten smokers beaten down into submission, so they're moving on to the next group of Untermenchen.
Such programs as "The Biggest Loser" are just conditioning people to laugh at others who are different, treat them as objects of pity and scorn and laying the ground-work for new, intrusive laws for "their own good." It's already happening and every time you watch one of those shows, you make yourself part of the problem instead of the solution.
And, that solution is NOT to help fat people live better as you see it, but to accept them as they are and get off your moral high horse.
Yep as soon as we get done taxing the climate back to normal we will do the same with body weight.
Government knows best.
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) who are stupid and vain and immoral and jerks and will never find happiness and will blow the chance to be the winner, as they've proven in the reality show.
