While gaming may be the cause of obesity in some children, in the majority of cases it has nothing to do with it. The main reason children are overweight is because of a poor diet and not enough exercise. Another thing people fail to realize is that everyone in the world as has different body type, someone who runs marathons can be a little chunky still, and someone who plays video games can be very thin. I have a friend who plays video games almost all day and eats nothing but chips and processed food, and he is very thin. Albeit he may not be healthy from a medical standpoint, it is not what you would expect out of someone who does nothing but play video games. This is just one example of when stereotypes were completely …show more content…
Not only are al fat people obligated to be funny, in most television shows they are the ones at the center of the joke. The media is making it seem ok to make fun of fat people because it’s all in good fun, and they don’t mind. Take the show Mike and Molly for example, the two main characters on the show are obese, and many of the jokes in the show are about their weight. This is just one of the shows out there that is desensitizing people to “fat humor”. Making fun of obesity has become one of the most popular things of our time, but why? It’s possible that because so many people in America are overweight, it makes it seem more acceptable to make fun of them. Like being fat is just a normal thing now, and it some ways it