Everyone Wants to Be a Victim in America Today – Even Skinny People!

It’s no longer cool to win a gold medal or graduate cum laude or start a successful business or climb Mt. Kilimanjaro. In today’s America, the only sure way to get attention is to figure out and complain about some way you have been victimized.

 Meghan Markle is doing it. So is Oprah Winfrey. In a recent New York Times article, I discovered a new way to climb aboard the victim train: Become a victim of “skinny shaming”!

The article, written by Gina Kolata, tells several stories of women that took Wegovy, one of a new class of drugs prescribed for obesity. One of those women, Katarra Ewing of Detroit, lost 90 pounds on the drug.

But there was an unintended and unexpected side effect: Many of her longtime friends, she said, abandoned her! Apparently, they preferred the 90-pound-plumper version. “Only my genuine friends are left,” she complained, “and that’s a very small number.”

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