Friday, December 15, 2006
Area Fatsos Take Mall
To those local morons whose casual yet offensive anti-Americanism encompasses a series of snide, holier-than-thou remarks about obesity ... have you been to your local mall?
Ms_Red and I went to the old Henderson Square last night. Westfield or Westcity or Westend or some such now ... to some I know it will always be Henderson Square. It was a zoo. But this was as expected, and beside the point.
We were almost literally dumbstruck by the numbers of obese people. Both in absolute numbers, and as a proportion of all shoppers, they were simply massive. And we're not talking "slightly chunky", "could afford to lose a few pounds", "may have let him/herself go a bit lately", or "a bit overweight". We're talking the morbidly obese and the super morbidly obese fighting it out over the discount wrapping paper. I would estimate that 75% in these categories were women, but perhaps I just noticed them more.
I know that opportunities for a good diet and routine exercise vary according to household and neighbourhood socio-economic status, but ffs when each ass cheek is the size of zeppelin, you waddle like a very portly duck at western springs, and your upper arms are larger than Hulk Hogan's at his prime, but not in a good way, you need to take some fucking responsibility. I have no understanding of how they got to that point in the first place ... fish'n'chips and a 2-litre coke for dinner every night, or perhaps an entire square of organic cheese for breakfast (rather less likely, I feel), and was almost speechless at the size of some of these people. I'm happy to consider any collective solutions like more walkable neighbourhoods and the removal of GST from fresh fruit and vegetables or whatever, but for crying out loud, people!
Regardless, I don't want to hear any more condescending and inaccurate kiwi crap about those fat Americans.
Ms_Red and I went to the old Henderson Square last night. Westfield or Westcity or Westend or some such now ... to some I know it will always be Henderson Square. It was a zoo. But this was as expected, and beside the point.
We were almost literally dumbstruck by the numbers of obese people. Both in absolute numbers, and as a proportion of all shoppers, they were simply massive. And we're not talking "slightly chunky", "could afford to lose a few pounds", "may have let him/herself go a bit lately", or "a bit overweight". We're talking the morbidly obese and the super morbidly obese fighting it out over the discount wrapping paper. I would estimate that 75% in these categories were women, but perhaps I just noticed them more.
I know that opportunities for a good diet and routine exercise vary according to household and neighbourhood socio-economic status, but ffs when each ass cheek is the size of zeppelin, you waddle like a very portly duck at western springs, and your upper arms are larger than Hulk Hogan's at his prime, but not in a good way, you need to take some fucking responsibility. I have no understanding of how they got to that point in the first place ... fish'n'chips and a 2-litre coke for dinner every night, or perhaps an entire square of organic cheese for breakfast (rather less likely, I feel), and was almost speechless at the size of some of these people. I'm happy to consider any collective solutions like more walkable neighbourhoods and the removal of GST from fresh fruit and vegetables or whatever, but for crying out loud, people!
Regardless, I don't want to hear any more condescending and inaccurate kiwi crap about those fat Americans.
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