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One of my favorite episodes of The
Twilight Zone first aired on November 11, 1960, which would have made it my sister's 18th birthday the year I was 13. Entitled "Eye of the Beholder," the gist of it was that in an altered society, pretty people were considered to be ugly and the hideously ugly were beautiful.
This is what's going on today right here and now, in this society where we live. It's happening online, where hundreds of videos of morbidly obese women dressed in bikinis or other flesh-baring attire are posted. The women look gross and disgusting but get comments like, "You are beautiful" and "I love your body," from men and women alike.
I can only conclude that the fatter we get as a nation, the more we tell ourselves that's the way things should be. Only it isn't.
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