Anne Milton: You're not obese, you're fat. You chunker.
Oh for the love of Zeus:
Anne Milton told the BBC the term fat was more likely to motivate (overweight NHS patients) into losing weight.In case anyone is wondering, the genius that is Anne Milton is the public health minister....
Ms Milton, who stressed she was speaking in a personal capacity, said: "If I look in the mirror and think I am obese I think I am less worried [than] if I think I am fat."
I don't know what to say, really. Part of me wants to point out that fat people often suffer from low self-esteem, and therefore calling them fat probably won't help. The other part of me wants to point out that if shocking people with the word fat is meant to make people lose weight, then why not step it up a gear and make the insults more insulting? Perhaps when a fat patient visits their GP the doctor could great them with "Oh look, it's Wabba the Hut". Or maybe a quick rendition of "who ate all the pies." Perhaps "Jesus Christ! You must fucking well sweat lard, you chunky cunt!"
Instead I'll just sigh and note that this is the supposed "new politics" - where the problems of the NHS are not going to be solved by radical reform, but rather an semantic shift in the vocabulary of doctors in order to make the visit to their GP of anyone packing a few extra pounds even more miserable than it already is.
Labels: Fatties, Milton, Witless Morons
posted by The Nameless Libertarian @ 7:15 pm
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5 Comments:
""Jesus Christ! You must fucking well sweat lard, you chunky cunt!""
I get told this all the time! :o)
And yet Lynne Featherstone wants to attack the advertising industry for inflicting loss of self-esteem on those who don't fit to an 'unrealistic stereotype'.
You can abuse fatties if you're the government, but should take care with their feelings if you're not.
Why are the insults reserved for only the fatties. If GPs are encouraged to insult the obese into adopting a healthier lifestyle, then what about the other groups. Anorexics could be called "stick insects" so that they eat more, or drug addicts "crackheads" so they inject less, alcoholics "pissheads" so they stop drinking and why not call those with a sexually transmitted diseases "slags" so that they may be encouraged to engage in safer sex. There's a whole raft of insulting names that GPs could use on their patients to promote a healthier life, not just those who happen to be overweight. "Stupid Tory Twat" springs to mind.
Her doctor should tell her she´s outright ugly, an insult to the human race, nauseating. That would motivate her to take retreat in a monastary preferrably walled-up and protect children from the trauma of having to see her frequently on TV resulting in juvenile abuse of alcohol. I´m rather fat than look like her.
I agree with the person who said Anne Milton is very ugly. As an ugly person myself, I resent Anne standing on her soapbox talking about fat people when she should really be focusing on issues of ugliness. No amount of vitriole against lazy fatties can compenstae for her wild ugliness. There's no obvious remedy but that doesn't amke it any less real. There's something in ugliness, no?
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