misconception

OPINION: Breaking the institutionalized misconception of overweight people

Turn on your television and dare to flip through the channels. Instantly, your senses are assaulted with countless images: television shows, ads, movies, news programs—symbols of purported significance being forced in front of your eyes and ingrained in the periphery of your mind. It starts on Nickelodeon. Patrick Star, a chubby pink starfish, gobbles down a plate of “Krabby Patties” and proceeds to burden his friends and neighbors with his formidable stupidity. Click.