Protecting Kids from Fat and Other Horrors: A Modest Proposal
I’m slightly shocked to think I, as a member of this democratic society (It’s actually a republic , -- well, some might even argue it’s a plutocracy or even corporatocracy -- but that’s not really our issue today, right?), have participated in a willful cultural ignorance that has allowed our children to remain perpetually victimized and abused. (By “our” children, I mean, of course, the children of those who have given birth to, adopted, or in some way claimed responsibility for them. I don’t mean to imply I ever have, would, or in any way desire to participate in this messy and pricey process of raising small humans. Oh, and by virtue of empoloying “our,” which is a possessive pronoun, I mean to imply the children also/really belong to us. Americans . As a society. Maybe not financially, but definitely physically and morally.) An example of one such fat kid who needs our help I speak, of course, of fat kids. It seems we can’t shake a stick without encountering the questi...