What Is It You Were Complaining About Again?

A preposterous and pathetic example are those people, male and female, who recently online have professed that (get ready for this one) simply LOOKING at a photo of another human with a beautiful body makes them feel terrible about themselves. Such a bizarre nadir of low self esteem as feeling diminished by viewing another person’s photo is an absolute marker for seeking intensive psychotherapy immediately.

For decades now I have witnessed men and women in wheelchairs working out at the gym. Also, due to Prince Harry’s association, most people have become aware of the Invictus Games which celebrate those military who have lost mobility, yet excel athletically in spite of this. From the waist down or otherwise, these participants’ bodies no longer work as intended due to injury or illness. Yet from the waist up they have built beautiful, powerful, fit physiques. Search Google Images with the phrase “Invictus Games” and “wheelchair bodybuilders” to be awed…or ashamed, as the case may be.

Despite having no mobility in their legs, despite living their life in a chair, despite the overwhelming obstacles in their way, despite the extreme lengths to which they must go to get themselves out of the house and to the gym, and then navigate through a maze of machines and equipment and people in order to get through their workout or athletic routine, they not only do it, but they excel.

No wonder fat and unfit people are enraged. Fat and unfit people’s legs work. Fat and unfit disability is a volunteer disability. Fat and unfit people work harder at achieving their goals of disability, making excuses and compromising their own health than the handicapped people work to achieve the exact opposite. How humiliating. How utterly wasted and underachieving and pathetic fat people and unfit people feel witnessing excellence among the disabled.

The self loathing and anger that the fat and the unfit unleash online and on women's talk shows is apparent in the outrage exhibited whenever confronted with the stark results, photographic or otherwise, of their food, fitness, ingestion and inhalation choices.