Those Happy Fat People
Says the website of the University Heath Service:
Weight stigma in athletics. I’d better write that one down. The site also stresses the importance of “body positivity,” which is,
Well, losing some of that excess weight would probably help on that front. Less crippling self-consciousness. Less sweating and wheezing, too. We also learn that “weight stigma” is perpetuated by language. Not, say, by being massively fat and the problems that so often follow from that.
At which point, sharp-eyed readers will notice that the direction of all this effort is away from the actual problem.
Well, again, obesity will do that. Best, then, to keep oneself in some reasonable proportion. Rather than faffing about with five-dollar bits of cardboard that make it clear just how neurotic you’ve become. As a result of being fat.
Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
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The last thing “progressives” want is for people to actually solve their problems.
I’d say they’re bending over and sticking their heads in the sand, but… Well…
Also, time is racist. Because of course. I guess we just need to look to other lands where people have other ways of knowing to see how all of that is working out.
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/06/28/white-time-dutch-professor-argues-that-time-itself-is-racist/
A modest suggestion: Set aside all of Africa as a refuge for all who feel themselves harmed by “white time”. Let it remain a land of poverty, ignorance, and superstition.