An Open Response to Tyra Banks: It's Not Okay to Be Fat

That's what the former supermodel has been saying on her television show lately. She'll line up some flabby women to say the same.

"My thighs rub together when I walk. So what?" one exclaims. The audience roars in approval.

I don't want to sound insensitive, America, but this stuff's got to stop. It's not okay to be fat.

I'm not talking about the moderately overweight. Some people struggle a little bit, and that's fine. Struggle away. Make sure you're trying to get thinner, and if you can't quite shake those last few pounds, well, God bless you. You tried.

I'm talking about the obese--the porkers, if you will. The average American looks like Marlon Brando's later years, and a barrage of BS health products have attempted to find an easy way out to no avail. Of course, we could exercise, but we're a superpower, dammit! So, instead, we've decided as a cultural that being fat is alright.

The fact is, while we all like to feel good about ourselves, if we're overweight, the last thing we need is positive reenforcement. In fact, we need the opposite; harsh criticism that inspires change. No fat person should avoid getting into shape, and it's a good thing that we have cultural stigmas to that effect. We don't need Tyra Banks or any of the other countless spokespeople who are very barely overweight telling the obese that fat is healthy. And we definitely don't need them to think that they're sexy.

I'm not trying to be offensive, but it's science, people: fat people are disgusting sexually for a reason. It's unhealthy, and human evolution strives towards health. For Christ's sakes, let's keep it that way. Anyone who convinces the morbidly obese that their bodies are OK is feeding way too far in to political correctness and is hurting our society. Americans are the fattest people on Earth because we're able to convince ourselves that it's natural to be fat, but before we start circling the arterial drain and succumbing to massive heart attacks and pork induced cardiac failures, let's just shape up and decide to stay at a reasonable weight.

It's not cruel to find fat disgusting. It's cruel to act like we don't have a problem.

So, do your part for the community. Get thin. Get healthy. Eat well. Stop drinking soda. Then, go outside and make fun of a fat person until he or she does the same.

It's positively unAmerican to ignore our problems. But you'd have to paint a flag on your chest to be more American than looking good and making fun of people.