Why are Fatties Blubbering Up TV? I haven't seen it mentioned on the sub, but has anyone seen the new NBC show "This Is Us"? It's a great show, featuring an all-star cast (Milo Ventimiglia!!), and I absolutely love it.  Except for one whale of a problem.  The show revolves around the lives of three triplets, one of whom is a literal goddamn sphere. The female shebeast's two other siblings, one adopted, the other it's male twin, are completely normal. I cannot for the life of me stand how this show tries to pass off this things weight being fine when it's literal a Big Mac away from a heart attack. This second episode showed her going to her weekly ED Anonymous meeting and criticizing the one thin person at the meeting for not being 'fat' like the rest of them because she's 105lbs and obviously there for attention and being annoyed with the other members for actually losing weight. She then goes to the gym and complains to her manbearpig boyfriend that she doesn't know why she isn't losing weight. There was also a very shitty flashback into her childhood, showing her fat there too (and her mom trying to put her on a diet), because y'know being a hambeast is guhnetiks.  I almost had to stop watching because of how disgusted I was.  For fucksake, losing weight is NOT impossible. Yes, it's difficult. Yes, it takes some time. But no, I will not feel sorry for a character who complains about self-loathing and wanting to die because of her weight. You feel like shit? Get the fuck up and do something. Go for a walk everyday, sub out that artery clogging soda/burger/fries for a salad without 4000cals worth of dressing. I am so sick and tired of hearing excuses from fatties in the real world, now I have to hear it on television too? When will the fatness end? The fact that the ONE character I had real sympathy for was the obvious strawman anorexic girl in the ED Anonymous meeting was just troubling. It's 100% not okay to make fun of someone with a serious eating disorder, especially someone who is anorexic. No matter what anyone tells you, you are fat. You know you're fat, even when the scale reads 105, because there's something wrong with the scale and when you look in the mirror you can see it. It's not something that can just go away by "stepping on a scale, reading 105, and knowing you're not fat" (quote from the show). While I really like this show, it opened my eyes to just how society has simply accepted grossly obese people are somehow normal. It's just sad at this point.