I agree about the overweight = health costs issue. I know at least two women who are seriously suffering and I suspect if they could somehow magically lose 50 pounds life would be so much more physically comfortable.
And yet, the "fat talk" still made me kind of want to vomit. (I guess we share a gene pool). Our culture doesn't talk about fat as unhealthy, it talks about it as bad. Evil. Lacking in moral somethingorother.
I mean, there is talk of the obesity epidemic leading (for the firs titme in history) to the chance people will die YOUNGER than there parents. But still. I see lots and lots of perfectly healthy women bonding over how a cheeseburger would be so-oo wrong.
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Date: 2010-03-03 03:35 am (UTC)And yet, the "fat talk" still made me kind of want to vomit. (I guess we share a gene pool). Our culture doesn't talk about fat as unhealthy, it talks about it as bad. Evil. Lacking in moral somethingorother.
I mean, there is talk of the obesity epidemic leading (for the firs titme in history) to the chance people will die YOUNGER than there parents. But still. I see lots and lots of perfectly healthy women bonding over how a cheeseburger would be so-oo wrong.
I guess actually I agree with both of you :)