Listening to an old Loveline with Carney Wilson (the fat one of Wilson Phillips), who as you may know had gastric bypass surgery and now is no longer fat
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. having no clue who that person is, i will say she is "50% true". my company actually includes bariatric and breast reduction surgery in their insurance because of how fat everyone is... its scary. :| of course unlike our CA counterparts they don't give us a gym or discounted membership or do anything to try to encourage us to do something while we're not sitting in a cubicle.
for some reason i hit post before i said: i've watched people struggle with weight from day 1 and it gets to a point where medical conditions either pre-existing or post-obesity cause them to have no option than surgery, and it is genetic, and they can't help it. and i feel bad for those people when they can't get the help they need.
but i've watched more people who just didn't want to do the work or couldn't grasp that, yes, it is genetics, and life isn't fair and while your high-metabolism friends eat denny's samplers you might just want to think about the lo-carb side of the menu and order a non-sweet tea instead of a soda. some people have to fight harder than others, we don't get to pick. but i'm not gonna sit there and say these people shouldn't be allowed to have surgery either. bariatric surgery is not some magical fairy cure-all. it fucking sucks. its as hard as anything else.
"refusing responsibility" = "I would rather die 20 years earlier because people, including myself, think fat is the body's outward expression of your soul's fall from health grace"
And if you were dealt the bad genetic hand of dark skin because your ancestors had dark skin, accepting it is just a way to refuse responsibility for yourself. What you really need to do is fix it.
As opposed to the lazy, self-indulgent option of fighting to end racism, which is just a cop-out because you don't want to have to do the work to be white.
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but i've watched more people who just didn't want to do the work or couldn't grasp that, yes, it is genetics, and life isn't fair and while your high-metabolism friends eat denny's samplers you might just want to think about the lo-carb side of the menu and order a non-sweet tea instead of a soda. some people have to fight harder than others, we don't get to pick. but i'm not gonna sit there and say these people shouldn't be allowed to have surgery either. bariatric surgery is not some magical fairy cure-all. it fucking sucks. its as hard as anything else.
uhh what? its 9 am ya'll.
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As opposed to the lazy, self-indulgent option of fighting to end racism, which is just a cop-out because you don't want to have to do the work to be white.
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