Saturday, April 23, 2005
I Am Crying Inside
We have sunk so low that we can't even leave the entertaining parts of Seasame Street alone. Witnesseth:
To Recap:
Muppets do not actually eat.
Muppets do not have a sexuality.
Muppets are not puppets.
These are not difficult concepts, though we as a country seem to have problems with this. Seriously folks, we're not even putting up a fight against the Chinese anymore.
(Although I'll admitt, comments like this:
"That sounds perfectly reasonable," says Margo Wooten of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. "You can't build a whole diet around cookies!"You can if you are a blue fuzzy monster Muppet.
To Recap:
Muppets do not actually eat.
Muppets do not have a sexuality.
Muppets are not puppets.
These are not difficult concepts, though we as a country seem to have problems with this. Seriously folks, we're not even putting up a fight against the Chinese anymore.
(Although I'll admitt, comments like this:
Somehow, though, that doesn't seem to make it easier to accept that Cookie Monster is now tossing salads on the Sesame Workshop Web site.don't exactly help.)
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C'mon, though. Have you seen those little porkers running around these days? I saw an eight-year-old kid on the metro the other day who looked like he weighed more than I did.
Whatever it takes to get the next generation of Americans to be able to walk up a flight of stairs.
Whatever it takes to get the next generation of Americans to be able to walk up a flight of stairs.
It's only a matter of time before there's a stigma against fat kids and people start treating the parents like their child abusers. If we can count on anything: It's moral indignation.
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Well, yes, but it depends on what kind of moral indignation. The massively obese already have a lobbying group and conventions where they get together and affirm that they are beautiful and the rest of us with a "normal" BMI are discriminating against them.
I'd wager we'll see fat people included in the Americans with Disabilities sooner than we'll get mad at the parents of fat kids. We can also count on a lack of reponsibility. Hence the Cookie Monster story.
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I'd wager we'll see fat people included in the Americans with Disabilities sooner than we'll get mad at the parents of fat kids. We can also count on a lack of reponsibility. Hence the Cookie Monster story.
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