Dr. Oz in a fat suit
No doubt you’ve seen actors on TV wearing fat suits. They pretend it’s to empathize with fat people. But skinny bitches like Gwyneth Paltrow and Courtney Cox do little more than make fun of them. That’s why actors wearing fat suits are just as offensive as those wearing blackface.
Of course, Dr.Oz should know better. Yet, there he was on TV this week, also wearing a fat suit.
[I]n order to experience first-hand what it was really like for his ‘morbidly obese patients’, Dr. Oz dressed up in an extremely detailed ‘fat suit’ for Thursday’s episode of FOX’s The Dr. Oz Show.
The famous cardiothoracic surgeon – real name Mehmet Oz – set up hidden cameras to garner reactions from the public to his intricately crafted 400-pound body.
(Daily Mail, February 2, 2014)
That, of course, was just a ratings gimmick masquerading as empathy. And it’s all too easy to unmask Oz’s utter lack of empathy.
For example, would he wear “an extremely detailed” blackface to experience first-hand what the epidemic of racism is like for black people? You know, to experience being stopped and frisked on the street, racially profiled in stores, or shot at in the hood. We all know he wouldn’t dare.
Fat suits are ridiculous and offensive
Not to mention that skinny people in fat suits look no more convincing as fat people than White people in blackface do as Black people. Or that skinny people in fat suits elicit scornful stares and snide remarks because they look ridiculous, not fat.
Frankly, skinny people pretending to be fat for a few hours is even more insulting to fat people than skinny people hurling fat jokes at them. And the psychosocial harm done by having this reputable doctor mock them for ratings is immeasurable.
After all, Oz could easily invite morbidly obese people on his show. That is if he wants his audience to know what it’s like to be morbidly obese. Not to mention that even schoolchildren are aware of the daily bullying and taunting fat people face.
That’s why Dr. Oz has violated his Hippocratic Oath with his fat-suit gimmick. One does not have to be a wizard to know that he was thinking far more about his TV ratings than any patient’s health.
Meanwhile, imagine how smug and holier-than-thou these fat interlopers must feel when they shed their fat suits. After all, they can reappear in their skinny, preening bodies – all on TV for the world to see, demonstrating the ultimate in selfie narcissism.