So, regarding The Biggest Loser. The contestants know what they are puting themselves into. They have seen the show, they know the type of stuff they will make them do, they know it will be hard and that they might me "pushed to their limits" a little too much. They know it. Shouldn't they KNOW TBL is a TV show who discriminates fat people? Maybe they do, but they still decide to participate. Shouldn't the contestants have just the same amount of blame as the producers?

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heyshika

What you’re doing is called victim-blaming, and it is a filthy and disgusting thing to do.

Most people who apply to be on TBL don’t know what they actually do to people. They know what’s shown on the show. Most of them haven’t heard about what goes on off-camera.

And even if they do, they have been so damaged by a fatphobic society that they think that even the horrifying levels of abuse the show perpetrates is acceptable, if it will just help them lose weight.

But no abuse is ever the fault of the abused, and claiming that it is only aids abusers and justifies abuse.

So. Fuck off.

-MG

From the interview with Kai Hibbard, Biggest Loser finalist:

“I think at the time when you sign it … and it says things like, ‘you give yourself over to whatever doctor we have treat you and we don’t attest to the credentials of the doctor’, you think, ‘no one is going to treat another human being this poorly, why should I even worry about that?’ You don’t realize that there are people out there who would treat you that poorly. You also get reminded … over and over again that … this is a chance of a lifetime and there are 200,000 other fat people behind you and if you don’t sign it they will… . I believe I signed away my life story and gave them the right to fictionalize it if they wanted to. I had an attorney look at it afterward and he was like, ‘you signed away things that really can’t be signed away here, and the problem is they’ve got, like, 100 attorneys and you can’t even afford me.’

In short, fuck off you torture-apologizer.

-ArteToLife