Just because people are offended, Disney is changing their Epcot childhood obesity exhibit! But why? They have tons of business every day! People stand in line for hours and reserve for months in advance to go to Disney World! Families save up for years to be able to go! Given this fact, Disney World could put any exhibit they wanted to in a bottleneck at either the entrance or the exit, and people would suffer through it even if they hated it! In fact, I think they owe it to us all to implement such a plan, just to give some needed relief from the crush of overcrowding every once in a while!
But hey, if people are upset by what looks like blaming the victim (as in, adding to the stigma of obesity, and ridiculing it further), then how about a different approach? They could instead blame the parents! Lots of people on the news want to do that, even if they’re not all to blame. But the beauty of Disney World blaming the parents for everything would be that they would be biting the hand that feeds their business (an apt metaphor to use when talking about overeating!): the parents who bring their kids! And then Disney could cash in on their hard-earned money and insult them at the same time! It would be classic!
And yet another possibility would be to show bad-for-you foods to be villainous, monstrous creatures, crawling down kids’ throats against their will and making them all fat, attacking and killing people, etc.! They could do something like the “seven deadly sins”, but with unhealthy, fatty foods! There could be mean cakes with sharp teeth and evil eyes, rabid hot dogs that maul kids with their mustard-foaming mouths of sharp teeth, some serial killer version of the Hamburglar in a blood- and ketchup-splattered orange prison jumpsuit and with a huge greasy cheeseburger as a head drooling mayonnaise and grease, corn tortilla chips like throwing stars killing people and being used by monsters to eat people’s gory innards out like a chip dip, donuts flying through the air and killing people by drilling into their stomachs (like that chrome sphere in Phantasm that drills into people’s heads), etc.: the gorier and more horrifyingly graphic, the better! Hey, kids love gross things anyway (just look at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards for confirmation of this, with all the gross green slime all over everyone, etc.), and as cartoonish as these ideas all are, they would love it, I’ll bet, especially if their parents are shocked and appalled!
Here’s the fat-saturated story:
http://news.yahoo.com/disney-retooling-obesity-exhibit-complaints-164748124.html
(BTW: This post marks one full year of 366 days {due to Leap Year} of this blog where I have posted generally multiple posts practically every day. I started on March 3, 2011, and I wasn't even sure what to write about then. I hope I'll have lots more to come, I hope my writing gets better, and I hope you enjoy it! It's meant in fun, so I hope it comes across that way. Thanks for reading, and all the best to you all!)
(BTW: This post marks one full year of 366 days {due to Leap Year} of this blog where I have posted generally multiple posts practically every day. I started on March 3, 2011, and I wasn't even sure what to write about then. I hope I'll have lots more to come, I hope my writing gets better, and I hope you enjoy it! It's meant in fun, so I hope it comes across that way. Thanks for reading, and all the best to you all!)
