(My 1,000th Post!)
Liberals are going hog wild attacking the obesity epidemic, as we all know. But strangely, this is the only disability they’re maligning. Generally, they browbeat everyone into renaming undesirable afflictions with euphemisms so everyone with said affliction will feel better about themselves (and so they can bully everyone else with political correctness: the last acceptable form of bullying; well, aside from bullying fat people, that is; and smokers, who become fat people when they quit smoking, so they get attacked either way). I understand that there are potential health problems associated with obesity, but not everyone can help it: for some, it’s simply genetic. So is it really fair to bully these fat people, and to deny them the foods they love when they’re going to get fat no matter what they eat? Isn’t this akin to torture, deprivation, and psychological torture (literally adding insult to injury)? Why not simply treat obesity in the same politically correct manner as everything else?
That’s why I propose that instead of calling fat people “fat”, or obesity “obesity”, we should henceforth refer to them/it with the more complimentary-sounding term: “Rubenesque”. (That really ought to be “Rubensesque”, as he was Rubens, not Ruben, but whatever; maybe they thought including the “s” made the word look too fat or something.) And we’ll have to get rid of that word “epidemic”, too: that makes genetically-inclined overweight people seem like they’ve got the monkey pox or something, and nobody will want to sleep with them. Plus, there’s just something about that word “epidemic” that seems somewhat negative somehow. After all, we don’t call popular fads like Angry Birds an “epidemic”, now do we? (Even though it might well be one: like the bird flu.) So why not use the more acceptable and positive-sounding term: “fashion”, as in: “Rubenesque Americans are really in fashion this year!” Then we could relieve some of the gravity of the situation with encouraging language.
And doesn’t the politically correct crowd say the language we use makes a difference? Well, it certainly makes a difference in that it allows the word police to bully and harass everyone they don’t like. But shouldn’t it also help people feel better about themselves? And it looks to me like the obesity crowd might be the biggest candidate for a cheering up (and not just due to their size, either). Have you ever heard of overeating due to depression? Well, with all the abuse Rubenesque Americans have been taking lately, binge eating is probably the only refuge they’ve got left to make them feel better, thanks to the politically correct bullies in the word police becoming the food police too. And that’s just making the problem even bigger; or as I would suggest calling it: pleasantly plump.
