Attack of the Obese! (dun dun DUUUHHHHH!)

[twfarlan]

Run! Run, skinny people! Before we infect you like the ravaging, shambling, hungry horde that we are! Save yourselves before you catch the FAT! (insert B-movie shrieking here

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[nata5]

Something I saw on TV yesterday was that fat friends make you fat too. They stated that if you had a freind that was fat then you would likly be at 70-something % more likly to get fat. Now if that was a close friend you would be 117-something % more likly to get fat. Also that fat couples feed into each other in the same way. If your partner is fat, you will one day be fat too.

Seems that there is a new push for everyone to get thin again. Guess we should all get on Alli and put on our dark pants before we upset the corparate machine anymore.

[twfarlan]

Oh gods, yes. It's surely much better to force our bodies into a shape they don't naturally achieve by dumping in chemicals that alter how we process food and that conveniently make our bowels gush like pharmaceutical company waste pipes into nearby streams and rivers. You know, constantly and darkly.

[ravenskye8]

*sigh*

I know that families tend to share body types - because - duh - eating habits are inherited and also enforced in families...

But...

*sigh*

Just one more reason that the world can continue to stigmatize people based on weight and blame those actions on the victims themselves...

[kitsunegeek]

Now see, if fat was contagious... I could have "caught" some from any number of my friends who offered it to me while I was having quite the opposite health problem. But no, I couldn't seem to "catch fat". No matter how many people I knew with bigger bodies than me, I was stuck with what I had; and had to see several doctors, a nutritionist, and work damn hard to get back to a stable and healthy weight (an unwavering 140 these days, by the way). "Catching it" would have been a whole lot easier...

The way I see it, if that worked, we could set up a mentoring program. Take the poor, brainwashed, emotionally-damaged, anorexics out there and partner them with self-assured, body-positive, big people. Teach them to eat. Teach them to love their bodies the way their bodies are supposed to look. Teach them that strength and health are more important than being a size 2.

But hey, this would be my twisted little world view again...

[twfarlan]

See, my question is, if this is the effect of changing opinions and minds, why aren't we seeing the opposite happening, as well? Why aren't fat people with skinny friends as likely to change THEIR views on body image and work to become skinny? Oooohhh, wait; society's already doing that, right.

[acelightning]

so how come, in 34 years of living with, and cooking for, Ray, i've never caught "skinny" from him?

[twfarlan]

I notice he hasn't caught Teh Fat from you, either.

[archanglrobriel]

As I heard this study I turned to look at Soren, who is still a rail after 16 years of spit swapping close association with me. He must be made of Teflon or something, because all my fat rays just bounce right off him

[twfarlan]

Now see, I was wondering for a moment if you were referencing an unfamiliar line from the works of the oh-Goddess-yes sexy Janeane Garofalo.

I was all, "Oh shit, have I missed new material? OMGWTFBBQ?!" And you were like, "OMG STFU kthnx no I can has creative new line keep reading whole thing plzdie!" And I was all, "lol i r n00b."

I die a little inside, every time I write things like that.

[louisadkins]

Look to the light, n00b, the priest just drank his last H20 and he's only gonna rez you one more time. Lrn2Snark, heh. *grin*

[sorcia]

"I die a little inside, every time I write things like that."

...only because my evil plans are working...