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My big fat weak dreading
Jan. 8th, 2010 12:30 pmFrom a recent bOING bOING post: "... successful documentaries—and really documentaries in general—are usually about challenging popular perception and either making a case for a viewpoint that's counter to 'common-sense' or informing people about a situation that's mostly being ignored. The thesis 'Fat People Eat Too Much' does not exactly fit into that mold."
No, it doesn't. What I'd dearly love to see is the documentary that WOULD fit: the thesis that there may be other factors that cause obesity (i.e., maybe fat people DON'T eat too much), that being fat doesn't mean you are necessarily unhealthy, that you can be fat and love yourself.
( More musing and then... a light bulb goes off! )
Is this a big "DUH!" for all of you? Have I missed (or worse, willfully ignored) the memo about this? Or am I just creating some wishful thinking and justifying my gluttonous ways? I'm very curious to hear what you think of this little epiphany... thanks.
No, it doesn't. What I'd dearly love to see is the documentary that WOULD fit: the thesis that there may be other factors that cause obesity (i.e., maybe fat people DON'T eat too much), that being fat doesn't mean you are necessarily unhealthy, that you can be fat and love yourself.
( More musing and then... a light bulb goes off! )
Is this a big "DUH!" for all of you? Have I missed (or worse, willfully ignored) the memo about this? Or am I just creating some wishful thinking and justifying my gluttonous ways? I'm very curious to hear what you think of this little epiphany... thanks.
