This weekend, anti-obesity activist MeMe Roth took her anti-food, anti-human rhetoric across the Atlantic in an interview with the Guardian — and sounded more crazed than ever.
MeMe Roth has made her name "calling people fat" (example: Jordin Sparks) and throwing away ice cream toppings at her kid's YMCA. But that name is in fact "a brand extension." Her real name is Meredith Clements, but she uses MeMe, her great-grandmother's name, because it expresses her goal to "change the cultural MeMes that have ushered in this era of obesity." MeMe is a pretty strange name for someone who thinks our culture is self-absorbed, but, as the Guardian's admirably hard-hitting Gaby Wood reveals, Roth isn't too good at analysis, of herself or anyone else.
When Wood asks Roth whether government food subsidies play a role in rising obesity rates, Roth replies that "high fructose corn syrup" is the real enemy here — which is sort of like believing that the evil oil creature in FernGully is responsible for global warming. Even more wacked-out — and downright offensive — is this statement:
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The defense has been made in the case of sex criminals that there is pleasure on the part of the victim. The same is true with what we're doing with food. We may abuse our bodies with food, but it's incredibly pleasurable. From a food marketer's point of view, when your quote unquote victim is so willing and enjoying of the process, who's fighting back?".
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Poor Raven is now a certified rapist according to the activists.
girl, u're epic!
