Telling it like it is is back in vogue |
| Telling it like it is is back in vogue.
Like Dr Phil "keeping it real" when explaining to a bad parent exactly whose fault it is that little Tommy just belted a teacher with a crow bar, the UK's Health Minister Anne Milton says doctors should stop mincing words when it came to treating overweight people.
She wants people to know they're fat. Not just obese.
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Let's imagine it now.
"What seems to be the problem?" the doc asks as one of the many overweight people in the world comes in for an appointment.
"Well,Buy Cheap Tiffany Jewellery except for the obvious, I mean. Fatty."
Despite some less-than-intelligent comments from the minister in question on the idea that suggests she does not actually understand the term obese - "If I look in the mirror and think I am obese I think I am less worried than if I think I am fat" – she might be onto something.
While it can hardly be argued that the term "obese" is a nice way of putting it, many people agree it’s time we stopped *ahem* sugar coating messages about being overweight.
In our poll on the issue, 80 per cent of readers agreed that the term "fat" should be used by doctors rather than "obese".
But it's not just in respect to health issues that many believe we should speak plainly. Plenty of people hate the politically correct, inanely boring way of speaking we have got going now. Especially in public life. Just take a look at this election campaign we are currently enduring.
When Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she wants the nation "moving forward" for the umpteenth time, she really means "moving anywhere but towards Tony Abbott".
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it's not always appropriate to tell it like it is.
Like yesterday, when I wrote "An outfit featuring a sheep skin wool shrug, Aboriginal dot painting top, multi-coloured ruffle skirt and high-heeled ugg boots will showcase to the world our Australian style".
About this outfit in particular, I really meant "this hideous combination of what looks like a tankini, uggs with high heels stuck on and technicolour bad dream skirt is going to make the rest of the world wonder what we down under folk are on".
Got anything you’d like to get off your chest? Tell it like it is. |
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