Why do we (America) reward fat people.?

Question

We have all of these shows about fat people like "Biggest Loser" and that new show where fat people walk 500 miles...and they are rewarded with prizes. A couple of months my mother told me about an Opera episode where this fat guy always wanted a Porsche, but he was so fat that he couldn't fit into one! So he lost a ton of weight, and Oprah bought him a Porsche. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that these people are losing weight, but why should they be rewarded for allowing themselves to get morbidly obese in the first place? I've never been fat, because I bust my butt in the gym 4 nights a week...Where's my freakin Porsche? Do you think that fat people being rewarded for being fat is right or wrong? Your thoughts please.

Sorry about the spelling, i meant "Oprah"...as you can tell, I'm not a regular viewer.

Look at all the fatties getting upset over this question. I love the excuses some people will make, and hide behind, just so they won't have to put down the Cheetos, get off of the couch, and do something about it. People are fat because they're lazy, and being fat is easy.

Totem, the fact that I spend 4 nights a week in the gym doesn't matter? Are you F'ing serious? LOL! Who taught your health class? Also, because you were molested, you can't go to the gym? That makes no sense.

Answer 1

You said it best. You've never been "fat" a day in your life. How could you possibly know what it is like.

You are making a generalization by the statement... "allowing themselves to get morbidly obese in the first place".

It, in most cases, is *not allowing... it happens. Genetics, if you'd study up has a MAJOR role in obesity.

The obese deserve to be "rewarded" as you say because they fought and got the weight off.

Additionally, you can no longer call them obese once they have lost the weight, can you. They are no longer "obese", are they?

The obese suffer every day. They suffer with the stigma, they suffer with the leering and jeering the skinny folk give them. They suffer from physical pain of carrying the weight around.

It's emotionally taxing.

Nobody... well... no SANE person I know WANTS to be obese.

Why shouldn't they be rewarded?

Why should you be rewarded? You're genetically predisposed to NOT be fat... whether or not you work out in the gym 4 nights a week. Doesn't matter.

Some people are not genetically made up to be thin.

Back in the day... we'd be alive and you wouldn't.

I was sexually abused when I was young. I was molested at 3 years of age and then again when I was in 2nd grade.

My folks wouldn't allow me to talk about it. How does a 7 year old deal with this? I turned to food. What else could I do? I was S E V E N years old... dealing with an adult problem and no-one to go to.

Then, getting older, I started having female problems. I gained more weight. I eat 1 meal a day. have all my life.

I was put onto medication that made me gain a ton of weight. Now I'm struggling to lose it.

Please, be careful making such generalizations.

EDIT:

My statement about the fact that you go to the gym everyday for 4 hours didn't matter... I mean that even if you didn't go to the gym, you likely wouldn't be fat. Your going to the gym and spending 4 hours a day is excessive. It's more of an obsession so you "don't become fat". At least that's the way you make it sound. (see generalizations don't feel so good, do they)

PLEASE tell me where I said I couldn't go to the gym because I was molested. Please... point it out to me?

Did I say that ?

uh...NO!

Why can't I? I have arthritis in my joints and back.

I am also in the process of being screened for other muscular/skeletal disorders. My bloodwork and scans are possibly showing MS. I have been diagnosed with SEVERE... ACUTE Fibromyalgia. Over the last year and 1/2 I've lost 100lbs.

I do go for walks and I do what I can. I also don't eat junk food. I'm not a greedy, needy person. I'm not jealous of skinny people. And I am NOT lazy.

I eat one meal a day. That's if I even eat at all. I don't eat anything else; I'm a non-smoker; I don't do illicit drugs; I don't drink alcohol.

My whole point was that NOT EVERYBODY fits this generalization.

It's ignorance... pure ignorance to generalize and lump all people or any group of people into one category.

Answer 2

How wonderful for you that you were blessed with great health where nothing contributed to you gaining weight! Some people actually DO have medical problems that cause extreme weight gain. Granted, there are many who simply overeat and sit around all day, but don't lump everyone together and assume all fat people are fat because they are lazy over eaters. That's ignorant. And unless you have a weight problem and struggle with it, you don't have a clue what it feels like and just how life changing it is when you drop the weight. Good for Oprah on rewarding people! She's been there and she's filthy rich. She helps out many different people for many different reasons. Want to start slamming on her for building schools in Africa too? Stop being jealous.

Answer 3

your basic concept may be correct, but you're talking about such a tiny fraction of the overweight people in the country that it's not worth getting worked up over. And I guess the money you spend for gym dues, others spend on buffet dinners.

Answer 4

Best "truthful" answer:

Fat people are "emotionally" rewarded by our politically correct society in a similar way to others with alleged disadvantages. TV producers are merely good businessmen seeing fat people as a means to profit from.

It is hip to put these "percieved" disadvantaged groups on pedistals because of their victimhood, and a big no-no to tell them to get off their A**sses and change their lives.

Special interest "victim" groups such as native indians, women, blacks, gays, all shout "proud black man, gay pride, and proud mum, or even BBW - big beautiful woman" as part of our social conditioning. Little do we know that all the previous groups (BBW's excluded) receive BILLIONS per year in funding that makes its way back into paid public protests / lobby campaigns and TV / Radio / Newsprint advertising to recieve more "money and rights." Thats what starts the brainwashing.

Bottom Line:
I predict the self-perpetuating pandemic (ever growing #) of fat people will band together and form their own special interest group (like natives indians, women, blacks, and gays) to demand things like larger seats on airplanes, buses, and even toilets. It will no longer be acceptable to call someone overweight, while terms like "metabolistically impaired" and "Digestively Challenged" will become mainstream.

And no, I'm not joking in the least.
The "I'm a victim game" is a game of money, and it employs millions of western people who ensure their "groups" get annual funding to continue thier services. It's a neverending whine story that won't stop until every man, woman, child, animal, and plant is a victim with massive gov't paid bureacracies employed to take care of them. (Nanny State)

There will not EVER exist a day when these groups will stop recieving yearly funding for their special victim status.

Answer 5

To inspire them and others. To reward them hard work of the weight loss.

Answer 6

I think they are being rewarded for the overcoming the disease that riddles america!

Answer 7

Fat is forever wrong because fat people are selfish and jealous of the slim and trim. America should stop rewarding them.

Answer 8

More cushion for the pushing !

Answer 9

well, duh!! they aren't being rewarded for being morbidly obese, they are being rewarded for their hard work and weight loss.

Answer 10

i totally agree man