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You have finally landed on the one page on this entire site (and on the entire internet for that matter) that is purely without bullshit... my soapbox page. There are a lot of times during our show that, whether it's because of time constraints and other obligations, I don't always get to address some issues that I feel don't get the attention they deserve. There are even more times when I just don't feel like waiting until the show the next day to get some things off my chest. Thus, I have started the "Rob's Soapbox" page. If you have clicked on this page looking for someone to coddle your fragile sense of self-esteem, or tell you what you want to hear or to reinforce your outdated world view, then exit this page right now and go somewhere else. If you are in search of the last forum for reason and common sense left in the world, then sit back, relax, and enjoy. I make only one promise with this soapbox page... if you read long enough and often enough, you will eventually be offended. So here's my latest soapbox. Listen up, 'cause you just might learn something... |
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June 18th, 2007 YOU'RE NOT ONLY FAT, The website "You Tube" (www.youtube.com) has become a national phenomenon and a clearing house for anything and everything visual. Hell, there are some 100 Rob, Arnie and Dawn videos that have been posted, along with cell phone videos of pets, fights and celebrities, a myriad of political speeches and self-made testimonials along with endless home-made videos, some designed to make people famous others done just for fun that have found their way to the world wide web. It seems that every week at least one video from "You Tube" gains national attention and gets covered and talked about across the mainstream media. Last week, an opera singer on the British version of, "America's Got Talent," blew the web away. Two weeks ago, it was a racy, saucy "I love Barack Obama" music video that had people buzzing. This week, "A Fat Rant" has taken center stage and it's sickening beyond explanation. For background, I provide you with the following excerpts from the Foxnews.com story on this atrocity; (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281655,00.html) with appropriate comment attached (the story excerpts will be underlined, my brilliance will appear in normal text)
Not true; as I always say, "just because you say something out loud, does not mean it is true." Being a 224 pound woman and claiming that you are not lazy and/or selfish is just ignorant. Ms. Nash is trying to define "fat" as a stand alone entity, similar to, say, Lou Gehrig's disease; a seemingly causeless affliction that just attacks random people. No, Ms. Nash, Fatness is not a disease nor is it random; it is a disgusting health issue caused solely and entirely by people who are too lazy to do what it takes to overcome the challenges they have been presented with in life. Metabolism, genetics, will power and cravings are simply part of the canvas upon which we all paint our lives…unless you are too lazy to pick up the brush in the first place, like some form of, let's say, cow. The 7 1/2-minute clip has generated more than 812,000 views since it hit the Web on March 17. The success has floored the 26-year-old, who works a day job as an office assistant in Los Angeles as she waits for her big professional break. What Break is she waiting for? That of the lead role in the movie version of "Hungry Hungry Hippos? "I'm not saying we should all be sitting around, patting ourselves on the back, cramming ourselves full of junk food with our sweatpants stapled to the sofa - obviously diet and exercise are vital," she says in the "Rant." "I am saying that if you do those things - eat right and exercise - and you still aren't thin, your life is not over." Please, Mrs. Nash, justifying failure by lowering the bar of achievement is reserved for lesser societies than ours. Move to France, Ma'am. The actress - who says she eats healthy and exercises regularly - rallies instead against those shops and designers that refuse to make clothing in her size, 18. I liked this play the first time I saw it when actress Camryn Manheim tried to publicly claim she was fat and thrilled with it. I am always entertained by people who are so clearly lacking self esteem that they honestly believe that the way to compensate for it is to simply yell out loud how confident they are. It's akin to a drowning man drinking water just to prove "he's fine." Confident, well adjusted people never feel the need to convince others of their self respect. There, however, lies the conundrum, because the truth is that it's literally impossible for an obese person to have self esteem. Anyone with love of self has a limit. We all reach a point where we look in the mirror and, because we love ourselves on some level, we say "wow, I have abused myself long enough and it's time to slow it down and/or reverse it." Only a truly sick person looks in the same mirror and instead says "I love that I am ruining myself."
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