Gravis, we've been ligving in this mamby pamby world without shame for decades. It's a Dr.Phil/Oprah touchy feely culture and we are suffering for it. Obesity is way up.
And the fatsos have so much postive reinforcement it's sickiening.Everywhere you turn you can find another example of a TV show that ignores the fact people are coronarys waiting to happen. BBW, voluptuous and big-boned are abused semantics that suggest to girls it's OK to be 30-40 lbs overweight.
The American Capitalist system has figured out that there is a huge swath of the population that is overweight and that they are a lucrative market, hence no one will ever confront the overweight on their burdens to society.
My health insurance is more expensive because of the overweight. My airline tickets are more expensive.
It's cheap and it is easy. Eat less and exercise more.
Gravis Wrote:
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> WingNut Wrote:
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> > Bring back shame already.
> >
> > Fuck this stupid War on Obesity shit that
> Michelle
> > Obama is pushing. We really need to encourage
> > making fun of fat kids so maybe they will self
> > correct before it gets out of control.
>
> that's negative reenforcement. i dont support
> negative reenforcement on this issue because it
> leads to people having eating disorders, people
> eating more as a coping mechanism both or which
> leave people mentally fucked up and to an early
> grave. other forms of negative reenforcement
> include physical abuse like domestic violence and
> child abuse. all of these destroy a persons
> self-esteem and in some cases results in suicide.
> in some cases there are legitimate reasons for
> people being overweight that they dont have
> control over. there is a right and a wrong way to
> do things and shaming people is the wrong way to
> go about things.
>
>
> > We have become a prideless society of slacking
> losers.
>
> i think that's better than a society of
> intolerance. why dont we shame the poor into
> having money? why dont we shame the uneducated
> into becoming more educated? why dont shame the
> unemployed into getting jobs? why dont we shame
> women into taking more prominent positions in the
> private and political sector?
>
> shame doesnt invoke changing a situation, only
> destroying an individual.
>
> what do we do when someone is tired of it and
> there is violent and lethal backlash. do we blame
> them for their anger and resentment against those
> that that shame (mentally abuse) them?
>
> your idea is shortsighted and flawed.
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