I am going to start this with a couple of fat jokes.
I have so many double chins I look like I am staring at you over a pile of pancakes.
Seriously though, I'm not fat, I'm just 4 feet too short.
Fat jokes - you gotta love them.
But what if being fat isn't the problem? With so many overweight people in this country perhaps we should look a little closer at the cause. Maybe the obese aren't a bunch of twinkie eating pigs.
What if they are:
incest survivors, victims of sexual assault, abused as children, suffering from PTSD, recovering drug addicts, depressed, suicidal?
Would society tend to show a little compassion for an individual suffering from any of these ailments? Would society judge and victimized an individual for a condition that is out of his or her control?
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