What people are willing to claim as sensible policy proposals is one thing, what we all say in response is what marks us out as being an adult civilisation or not. An interesting claim here being made by an activist called Sonalee Rashatwar, that fat people should gain more in welfare. Because, you see, it requires more food to keep a fat body fat, therefore more food stamps should be on offer to those carrying that extra weight that needs to be fed.

The claim isn’t the point, as above, because there will always be chancers out there. Rather, the interesting bit is what is our response to this going to be? A useful guide to our views here being guffaws of laughter. Followed by an injunction to have sex and travel.

Well, yes. Sonalee is of a certain size:

She’s also a sex therapist doncha know:

Presumably the sex therapy including how to deal with the rolling in flour issue*.

We’re capitalist and free market around here and if someone’s able to make a good living out of this tosh then why not? No one’s ever gone bust overestimating the gullibility of the American public after all.

Someone for whom the plural pronoun is actually apt. Well done there. Although I do suspect it’s just a typo.

But it is that idea about food stamps which is so fun. In a number of cultures a certain heft on a woman is a sign of wealth, of riches. For in a subsistence society only the rich can actually be hefty. And now the insistence is that we should all subsidise such a social appearance of wealth?

And the thing is, she’s making a good living out of this so she’s not crazy. The people who pay her however…..

*There’s not a teenage boy, or former one, on the planet I’ve got to explain that reference to, is there?