Hurray! Jeff Winkler and Radley Balko include fat panic (right at the end, you'll have to keep reading) in their amusing round-up of recent moral panics fanned by Time Magazine in the US. It's great to see the Global Obesity EpidemicTM up there with the all-time greats of modern media hysteria like satanism, crack kids and cyberporn. Anyway, read and enjoy.
The Top 10 Most Absurd Time Covers of The Past 40 Years
5 comments:
I like articles like that, and the no-nonsense rebunking of the scares are very refreshing.
Wish I'd seen you post before I added mine LOL. Indeed a very good and refreshing thing to see this morning :)
Um, any article that dismisses rape in that fashion and claims the decline (which they overexaggerate) in rapes has to do with the availability of porn is something that maybe should have a trigger warning on it.
I love that the Obesity Epidemic (OMGOMGOMG) is the #1 Most Absurd Time Cover. Also, this:
"if obesity does modestly shorten lifespans, it does so at a savings to taxpayer-funded programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
The rhetoric around this issue has always puzzled me. To my mind, you can't have it both ways. Either we as fat folks are dying earlier, saving our insurance companies money for end-of-life care, or fat is a net benefit to longevity, and fat folks live longer so we cost more.
That is great! Thanks for the link :)
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