In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey

The overweight are the latest putting the boot into fat people by Jane Willcox.

Thank-you to Ms Willcox. This is why I won't be watching The Biggest Loser. And it's not just because I'd like to smack the trainers in the teeth with a Christmas ham.

It's the whole discrimination thing. Maybe if we were in the 1940s, there would be a show of a similar ilk for black people to become the whitest black people they could be (oooooh, politically incorrect, go to your room...) (and no, I'm not condoning racism, just making a point about discrimination and what it can do to people). Or maybe in the Victorian era, something about how women who spoke their minds were really quite as insane as a trumpet and got to work towards the coveted title of being the "least insane" of the lot (and thereby avoid being locked in the attic).

Everything is looks! The other week I was unfortunate enough to catch a few minutes of Extreme Makeover and was appalled, quite frankly. And in this era of media bombardment with appalling lots of things, it does take a fair amount to appall the general person. But I was appalled!

This show's all like, "YOU! You, yes, you! You are UGLY! Good LORD, how can you be LET OUT OF THE HOUSE, you hideous harpy! Let's take you away somewhere and cut off this, jam this bit of plastic into you, strap your breasts up around your collarbones, tell you how hideous you truly are FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, darling. Because you are so horrible! But we can make you look beautiful! YES! WE CAN! Only us! We are God!! *muahahahaha* There will be no ugliness! Our vision is to be the only one that can exist!"

What the hell is it with society and its need to degrade people constantly??

Especially degradation for "entertainment."

It makes the Romans with gladiatorial games look humane.