Yeah, I agree. I've said something similar in the past - I think women are raised to be adults by 18, whereas boys are raised to be overgrown tweens by 18, and their parents call it "good enough", leaving the rest of the job to future girlfriends and wives.
It does everybody a disservice, and it perpetuates this idea that girls mature faster than boys. We don't. We're just forced to grow all the way up and boys aren't.
He was from Cuba, his father was in Cuba, his uncle was in the USA and wanted to keep him here. He needed to be returned to his father but it should've been via negotiation. The raid was not the way to go. IIRC Janet Reno just got impatient with diplomacy?
This is a recent problem. Do we think those purported fat genes just evolved in society over the past eightyish years, and spread so widely that, per the 2017-2018 NHANES data, 73% of American adults are overweight (30.7%) or obese (42.4%)? On a population level it's clear this cannot be genetic. There's been a cultural shift that has caused this problem, often thought to be related to processed food, less time to cook, and for some underserved communities, food deserts.
Look at how dramatically obesity has risen since the '80s:
I think their point is that doctors don't want their patients to become entrapped by obesity into lifelong poor health, which also traps them as sources of revenue for corporations that profit from sickness and fat: pharma, companies that sell fad diet and/or exercise plans, etc. So if your doctor tells you to lose weight, it's probably coming from a good place, regardless of what else might be going on with your health.
(And just in anticipation of some replies I might get: yes, it's absolutely a real and shitty thing when doctors only see the fat and assume it's the cause of all the patient's problems. You deserve better healthcare than that. But also recognize that while the fat might not be the cause of a given problem, it might be exacerbating that problem.)
I'm doing a bunch of housework today and then having my folks over on Sunday for Mother's Day. It's absolutely gorgeous out so I might try to get a little gardening in too :)
It's not my favorite Friday ever - I had to have a colonoscopy this morning 😬 but afterward I had a huge breakfast and a 5 hour nap and I feel like a million bucks now!
He can act but that movie was beyond stupid. I'm convinced the only reason it did well with critics is exactly what you said - they were surprised he could actually act.