Thursday, February 14, 2008
Oh, Alton.
| Y'know, a guy who loves his deep fryer and does a whole multi-part special on stuffing your face with road trip food sure has a lotta noive bagging on the overweight. I bet the next Gathering of the Food Network Stars will be Un!Comfortable if he has to sit next to Ina or Paula or Mario or Emeril or Guy or...well, I guess his skinny ass is pretty much screwed. He'll be stuck down at the other end of the table between Giada and Sandra Lee. Which I suppose is punishment enough. Sigh. Labels: body image, stupidity, weight |
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
For serious?!!
| I thought I heard this headline on the news last night while I was getting ready for bed, but I thought I must have heard it wrong. Apparently, I didn't. It's really true that the Mississippi state legislature introduced a bill designed to prohibit restaurants from feeding obese people. According to the bill, if passed, restaurants would be required to ask overweight patrons to step on scales before entering the restaurant so that their BMI could be recorded and tracked. That's just...well, that's a civil rights lawsuit waiting to happen, for one thing. Not to mention completely creepy in a Big Brother kind of way. I shouldn't even have to mention the part where it's just plain offensive. And stupid and ignorant and wrong-headed and--I won't say bigoted, because I think these guys have good intentions to help people be healthier. But cheese on crackers, this is not the way to go about it. The mind, it boggles. Labels: body image, food, stupidity, weight |