Double 600, and again
Last night I somehow managed to land on TLC while I was in bed, they had a compelling yet very disturbing show on, my 600 pound life. The one and a half episodes I saw each had a 24 year old woman as the feature subject, each well over 600 pounds. I found each situation a combination of frustrating, disgusting, and tragic. I simply can not understand why anyone would even want to exist in this condition.
There did seem to be a common thread between these two cases, a HORRIBLE supporting cast around them. The first woman’s husband who looked like he was right off the set of Deliverance admitted on camera several times that he really doesn’t want her to lose weight as he feared it would mean she wouldn’t need him anymore. He happily would scoop nothing but horrible food into the cart at the grocery store to feed to his wife. To me it is just another form of domestic abuse. It was so pathetic.
The second girl lived at home with her family. The stories of her mother, who was easily pushing 300 pounds herself, criticizing her daughter for being even heavier were amazingly hypocritical. Mom admitted she exerted no effort in trying to feed her daughter anything resembling a healthy diet growing up. Even after getting the surgery there were scenes of the daughter around a family dinner table that was loaded down with fried chicken, mac n cheese, cookies, cake and other terrible choices. Again to me, this family may as well be loading the gun and handing it to the daughter to pull the trigger. They should be ashamed of themselves, truly. Pass the mashed potatoes!
Yesterday marked yet another mass shooting in California where so far it seems like a worker went postal on a group of his former fellow employees. Much like soldiers dying overseas for causes created by the defense industry juggernaut, shootings have been happening regularly enough that each subsequent incident numbs the public just a little further. Yep for a few days there will be the normal, pointless, social media insults exchanged between the people that think that more guns are the solution to most problems in the world and those that don’t. I used to mildly participate in these exchanges but realized it was pointless and accomplished nothing.
Do I have any answers to the gun controversy? Nope, I am realistic enough to realize that any sort of gun control, no matter how logical will go nowhere in the end. NRA lobbyists are very, very good at what they do and have plenty of money to keep doing it. Lock your doors, the forecast is for fear.