This is just . . . weird

[pegkerr]

Doctor in trouble for calling woman obese.

The story doesn't say exactly how he phrased what he said to her. I gotta think there is more to the story here.

It makes me think of that term Berke Breathed coined: "Offensensitivity."

Comments

[pameladean]

Why the hell should she listen? Dieting doesn't work. Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers (the programs he recommended, with the comfortable comment that there were "lots" of them out there) -- they don't work in the long run. And they're horrible for one's frame of mind. I personally would rather die than ever go through another one of those stupid useless programs with their adherence to the ickiest ideas about bodies and femininity that our culture affords, which is saying a lot.

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[ex-radparker580.livejournal.com]

And yet some people manage to lose weight.

[pameladean]

Oh, sure, I've managed to lose weight myself. Repeatedly. Almost any crazy regimen will work in the short run. But very little works in the long run on most people.

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[faeryguinevere.livejournal.com]

"Dieting" doesn't work, but changing one's diet and lifestyle permanently to a healthy one often does. If nothing else, it at least improves one's health, if not changing one's weight.

[pameladean]

Sure. If that doctor had recommended the Health at Any Size program instead of Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig, I'd be having a different response.

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