Some of you may have missed the flap in late 2013 over fitness guru Maria Kang and the thrashing she encountered from the "fat is beautiful" mythologists.
According to one blogger:
Maria Kang, who lost 40 pounds of post-pregnancy fat in eight months of eating right and exercising, was gobsmacked by the responses - all of whom came from people she had never met.
The responses are an interesting window into our culture - which has become whiny, narcissistic, excuse-ridden, envious, and enraged at anyone who succeeds. We live in a culture of "victimolatry." Those who fail make excuses for themselves, and malign those who succeed - even to the point of trying to tear down the successful as a means to "even the playing field." This is the very cultural phenomenon Ayn Rand saw coming down the pike half a century ago in her dystopic novel of politics and economics, Atlas Shrugged.
Although the blogger is a religious minister, he demonstrates far more honesty in this post than the worst critics of Kang.