In Mood for Crusading

I was once asked by an interlocutor of my annual debate with former secondary schoolmates that, “do you feel stigmatised by your weight, in both school and work?” I must say I shudder to contemplate the consequences of analysing that question! To be frank, I spent almost the entire length of my childhood being jeered at for my allegedly “slowness” due to my weight issues. Yet I am accustomed to believe that my “slowness” concealed an agile mind, because I dare to say, those who bullies and those who traumatises people with weight issues, are no better in their quality of life, than many of the overweight individuals.

Lets reflect. Overweight and obesity is certainly a paramount issue; there are more than enough studies out there that criminalise overweight persons. They perpetuated the idea of overweight = health problems. So generally, if such reports are published without aforementioned disclaimers, that the assumption of overweight = health problems is not universal, there exist many idiots and fuckers in the society that will generalise and immortalise that idea, considering that they are less advanced in mental development; these scenarios are more often than not, too common, even for Singapore.

Analysing these situations are not recommended for non-sufferers of the society’s irrational fear for overweight persons, because they lived in a bubble world that is shrouded in a misrepresented veil; the real society is just not as morally upright as we delude ourselves. I have seen many overweight persons being traumatised and ridiculed, and I had my fair share. Of course, there are lesser of such cases in pre-university, but the impact of one or two cases annually, is nonetheless, often disturbing, and is liable to inflict permanent emotional damage. There exist such irresponsible fuckheads, who perhaps, have no fucking mind of their own to contemplate the consequences of which their mouth can cause, that they inevitably, hurt so many people because of their lack of intelligence.

The premise of my argument is not to raise a war against such fuckheads. Rather, I am interested to defame the so-called “researchers”, who armed themselves with reports that are often than not, criminalising the overweight individuals. By virtue of their irresponsible reporting, they are working to the benefits of society’s most irrational fuckers, because it is exactly now, that these fuckers can further substantiate themselves, why they are targeting the overweight, or in their views, FAT people!

That is not all. One may casually comment that the fuckers I have above-mentioned may just be animals that possess the quality of being candour. What a fucking deception. What a fucking impetuous lie. And I believe they can lie much better to convince us, the allegedly fat people, that we are indeed the “weakest link”, the “outcast”, the “doodle-heads”. Of course, I am not holding the entire society responsible for the lacklustre acts of these fuckheads. I must attribute some self-righteous individuals who defended our rights. But what aggravate the situation is how some PARENTS, and certain teachers never, NEVER, at their own will, stand up for these traumatised kids.

Not to put too fine a point on the adults, one have to look at the greater society, where the problem originates. It is safe to say that Singapore is not as morally repugnant as other societies, but still, it warrants investigation into the matter, and formulate resolutions to arrest the problem. I am very thankful to say that the Health Promotion Board did their very best to help these overweight individuals to lose weight, and that many government schools have remarkable weight-loss programmes, attesting that a portion of the society-at-large does care.

Alas, that is far from sufficient. We have to do more, by contributing more to unveil the facts regarding the overweight individual’s quality of life, and to extricate the overweight individuals from discriminatory suppression, that will unleash their full potential. Because essentially, it is the fear of being stigmatised and discrimination, that stops them from displaying their true character, their full ability! Discriminations have for many years constructed a virtual wall that segregated these overweight persons, retarding their social development.

And believe me, not many of these segregated persons will eventually walk out of such social apartheid to realise that their future is in fact, brighter than many others! We, the intellectually more competent individuals (I can’t help but feel that I am perpetuating social biases as well, erm...), must step out of conventional wisdom, and assume that the society is going down a steep slope of moral repugnance, and we must, metaphorically, help them to apply their brakes, and shift their gear to Neutral or Reverse, before they hit the red lights or kena speed camera.

That is enough said. I will crap further another time.