In the future people will look at our literature and media output and say - hey everyone was thin and fit around the year 2006 and they worried a lot about obesity. We always see thin people in our media and fat people are regarded as somehow being like kamikaze eaters. To be fat is to be seen as lazy and mentally self destructive. There is no positives to being fat. Not all fat people are merely overwight because they ate all the pies. Some people are naturally fat because of some kind of glandular or genetic component that is regulating that persons weight. Kids suffer terribly at school because of obesity. It has become the obsession of a thin media under the guise of health education to withdraw from the simple ridicule of fat people (as in the 1960's) to a state of near panic about the health of the nation. From reading the media you expect to see hoards of great big walrus-like kids oafing their way onto trains and busses, yet you never see fat people presenting the news. They have morbidly obese people in reality tv shows who are mercilessly made to climb mountains and walk 30 miles a day for 10 weeks and by the end of it they show the winners who managed to shed 20lb and the losers who celebrate by eating a tray of cream cakes. Where are all these fat kids they keep talking about. When next at your local town centre walk along the street keeping a mental tally of the people you would consider "too fat" those who fall within your definition of "normal" and those who are "too thin" I believe you will see more people who are too thin than too fat, but you never get reality tv shows where seriously underweight schoolkids are made to cram a load of burgers and chips down their necks, or go on an endless endurance test of pizza eating and video games. imagine the script with the little girl in quotes and the narrator "no no I just cant take anymore of this" sandra has had enough and storms out of the room - against all the rules she uses her mobile phone and calls her mom cut to a scene of the garden and sandras bedroom window at the "thin club hotel" "yes, mommy I do want to be normal - no of course I dont want to be a supermodel when I grow up -thats not why I want to get out of here. look come and get me I cant take any more of this pizza and burgers and video games - they make us eat chocolate too" Sandra agrees to comply with the regime and as a concession staff have allowed her to throw up after the next meal Its ridiculous and no matter how the press and media try to dress it up its still a fat jihad. Kill Fatty, is in essence the slogan and the belief that inside every fat person is a thin supermodel waiting to burst out. If the media were to think about this jihad they created they will have to admit that somewhere they forgot to ask the question, what is it that makes someone able to condemn others for being outside the norm and what right does government or a media have to lecture on obesity? There is a difference between education and entertainment and by displaying fat people on reality tv as though overcoming weight gain is somehow all an uphill struggle you will just put apathy into the minds of those who could benifit most by slimming down. On the other hand if the media doesnt open its mouth about under weight people then it must be accused of being simply extremist in its views of obesity and a simple propogandist for its super thin presenters and other media elite who's arses would never look big in anything. Sure enough foodstuffs can be healthier and supermarkets and suppliers are guilty of supplying horrendously inadequate foods. However its easier for the media to blame it on individuals as the individuals dont pay 300 million a yaer each to advertise themselves all over the place. Why doesnt the media back ordinary people who are suffering at the expense of business tycoons who provide cheap stodge in place of wholesome ingredients? well - what dog bites the hand that feeds it? one that will not live much longer I suspect ! So untill we can get a media that doesnt rely on the advertising revenue of cosmetics and food companies and other industries that rely on the thin look - we have to put fat people up for derision and ridicule I expect. Meanwhile we also will never have the delight of someones thin scrawny arsed kid being forcefed and made to sit still for 20 hours a day. I think that would be just as hilarious and for the benifit of society as watching overweight people being starved and forcemarched 20 miles with a 20 lb backpack ! Why dont we have any great big fat media stars?
cool - no-one has ever printed work that was all my own stuff before - thats great !!! thanks for the compliment !
You are a very obervant writer, Sentient, and even though you didn't PUMP any words, I do feel that you came across as a voice of truth which rises above the vision blinkers forced on us by the media and all its subsidieries. I was a tad disappointed, however, that you didn't mention that 'I' don't mind that not everyone is as gorgeous and 'athletic' as me. I have the body of a Street Fighter. In fact, if I was a character in the game 'Street Fighter', then I am a ringer for 'Honda'. As a gesture of goodwill, I will now eat something, and I hope that everyone will join me for a double portion, before the word police latch on to us and find something politically incorrect about all this.
cheers white scorpion - I actually edit a lot of my GF's journalism but thats the first thing I wrote straight of the top of my head. It was alright really but still a bit odball for a publication. I just want to become as talentless as Julie Birchil so I can earn huge sums of money
I reckon if everyone really tried to get it together, we could organize our own internet publication.
Heeey not a bad idea and then we could all buy a bus and go on holiday around Europe in it with Cliff Richards and Hank Marvin
And we could have a band following us as well with really tight suits and thn ties, and waxed hair, and one of them wearing glasses, and they could be playing the electric guitar, strung all the way up to their neck, and we could call them something like 'The Silhouettes' or something. Oh, and Una Stubbs can be in it too, making squeaky voiced comments.
I would be really great if you could also get Lionel Blair wearing flares and doing some body pop dancing to the tune of our London beat. There's a lot to be said about our music, even though we haven't written, recorded or thought of it yet.
My god we are in a band now as well thanks to you scorpion - do you want to record at abbey road or the "Spice Girls Studio for the hard of hearing"?
Another Hipforum Writers Forum exclusive ladies and gentlemen!!! Band is forming and if any of you care to join me down at the Abbey Road Zebra crossing we can all do the famous walk togeeeeeether!!!
Can I be be the singer? of course I would have to get some lessons off someone good like victoria spice
that was a fresh take on the topic.Good job. I've been thin/slim all mylife and I want to gain weight not because the media says so but I want to be healthy. __________________ Australian Job Listing
Great job, Sentient... it is a shame that we will never see skinny kids forced to eat cheeseburgers. That would be entertaining, haha...
