My heart is breaking although the resentment I am feeling, along with the grief, seems to be acting as a type of psychological glue that is preventing too much pain. Oprah, whom I used to really admire, has ascribed to and promoted an idea I find morally and personally repugnant - the open advocacy of total selfishness and egocentric rudeness, in other words prejudice, in order to keep the pounds from piling back on. Shame on her! It is not the fault of fat people that those too weak to manage their own weight are looking for a scapegoat for their "problem."
I will hope the online news report I read is somehow wrong, but something inside me hints strongly it is likely accurate: Oprah is now advocating refusing to look at fat people in order to maintain or lose weight. Who over the age of thirty or forty doesn't recall the "think yourself thin" fads that have been around for such a long time? Apparently Oprah, although into her fifties, has no memory of those fads for weight loss that were bandied about all those years ago. They were unmitigated claptrap and unsubstantiated tripe then, too.
As I think more about it I am really beginning to feel sorry for anyone who is so desperate to be "perfect" that they are willing to treat another human being so rudely, in public, and wholly without conscience. Your problems are not with weight loss, people. Your problems are selfishness, a total lack or sense of genuine courtesy and compassion, the need to blame someone else for personal problems you alone control or can overcome, and a willingness to indulge in what is rapidly becoming the prejudicial treatment of a newly targeted group of people who are noticeably "different" because the skin they are in contains pounds of fat instead of melanin.
Again, (and again and again and again) shame on you!
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