LETTER: Sit back and enjoy Trump

So, Donald Trump is a bad person for giving a beauty contestant and Rosie O’Donnell a hard time about their respective girths? Perhaps. Here is the rub though: First of all, beauty contestants are supposed to be slim and it’s always a good time to give Rosie O’Donnell guff about anything.

Let’s talk about us, shall we? The tolerant, the caring, the loving and ad nauseum. For the last eight years, we’ve been telling our young people that they are too fat — for their own good, of course: the teachers, the health professionals, the clergy, the parents. Never mind that the science has been over-simplified and misquoted by the media; the only thing that matters are good intentions.

I’ve had a little experience with this myself, and for me it was about anxiety, shame and resentment. For the longest time my body was a prison and it had nothing to do with my cerebral palsy. Until we can find a way to be a bit more humane with our young people, let’s just grab some popcorn and enjoy Mr. Trump’s game of billingsgate — but no butter on our popcorn, we’re already too fat.