Someone said this at lunchtime at work today, and I was reminded once again how completely stupid, embarrassing, incorrect, and ultimately unreasonable this anecdote is.
Guess what - you haven’t caught the fat person in some sort of logic trap! They’re not doing something that makes no sense! There’s no self-delusion or hypocrisy at work!
Drinking soda is the quickest and easiest way to add a ton of completely pointless, junky, empty calories to one’s diet. Even a small can of soda pushes 200 calories, when the average person should be aiming for a daily intake of around 2000 calories. If a person is drinking zero-calorie diet soda, what they’re doing makes sense because they aren’t adding extra useless calories to their diet.
Don’t get me wrong, I think that fat acceptance is one of the most dangerous and disturbing trends in politically correct America, but this statement, which you hear all the time, is completely pointless and meaningless!
you’re an idiot for using the term “retarded” in your title PARTICULARLY outside of the pit.
I am a fatty of ridiculous porportions and I love, nay, am HOOKED ON diet coke, probably to a dangerous degree. I think regular coke tastes like syrup and it leaves a film in my mouth. Diet Coke is the sweat from an Angel’s brow, bottled and sent to us on the wings of a unicorn.
Well yeah, but I think what people are getting at is that they’re adding tons of extra calories to their diets by other means, so why should soda be the one avenue where they go with the healthy choice.
I’m not saying that it was ever a good joke or anything, but I’m not quite grasping your logic here.
The point is that soda is an easy place to make a substitution for a lower calorie item, and since way, way too many calories is worse than just way too many calories, making that substitution makes sense, even if you make other bad choices.
If a fat person is under the delusion that they can eat big heavy meals and drink diet coke, and still lose weight, that’s a problem. But if they actually like diet coke, or just realize that it’s a small step towards not gaining as much weight, their position is logical.