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That article on the decline of eroticism was interesting. I disagree with the use of Supersize me as a trend of using health obsession to fuel the War on terror. Morgan Spurlock was a liberal who did not like the war on terror. And he sucked because he was an alcoholic bum who lied about McDonalds not because of some moral puritanism. The overall trend of the article is correct, but that one point seemed odd to me.

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Filme: "Super Size Me - A Dieta do Palhaço" (2004), Morgan Spurlock

Em “Super Size Me – A Dieta do Palhaço”, Morgan Spurlock se torna cobaia de sua própria experiência, consumindo exclusivamente produtos do McDonald’s por 30 dias consecutivos. Mais do que um mero desafio gastronômico, o filme é uma investigação mordaz sobre a cultura do fast-food, a obesidade epidêmica nos Estados Unidos e o poder da indústria alimentícia. Spurlock documenta meticulosamente as…

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The Complicated Legacy of Morgan Spurlock’s ‘Super Size Me’

Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Roadside Attractions and Getty ImagesMorgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me documentary hit the

Sean and I were talking about this again tonight for some reason, and I wanted to make sure people knew that when Morgan Spurlock was filming Super Size Me, he was a heavy alcoholic who was hiding his drinking from at least the audience and the doctor who was evaluating him.

Specifically, this moment from the documentary is very important:

At one point in the doc, Spurlock’s doctor tells him he’s “pickling” his liver, which he said resembled an “alcoholic’s after a binge.”

It wasn't the fast food making him feel so shitty, and it wasn't the fast food causing all his medical issues. It was the heavy levels of drinking.

I want to be very clear: I grew up and still have to deal with a very alcoholic parent. It fucking sucks. And almost worse than the drinking is the lies that get told to cover the drinking. To pretend it isn't happening. To act like it's not that bad. When my mother ended up with literal bone death in her hip, she said, "It's so odd that I had this happen; it usually only happens to people who abuse steroids." Years later when my right hip started hurting, I looked up the issue my mom had because I wanted to know if there was a genetic chance I'd gotten it. No genetic chance. There is a second thing than can cause it, though. Severe alcoholism. My mother will tell you she's not an alcoholic with a straight face but then adjust her medical information so she can keep the lie up. In fact, I'm certain she didn't go to the doctor about the pain until the bone death was well on its way (an excruciating experience) because she was afraid she'd be asked about her drinking.

Spurlock made a documentary they literally showed in high schools to teach kids not to eat fast food knowing full fucking well it wasn't the fast food that was doing those things to his body. But he chose to not only lie for a documentary, but to continue the lie while that documentary was used as "proof" that fast food is terrible for you. Spurlock's work in Super Size Me made fast food a bigger stigma than it already was and the result of the lies in that movie affected policy decisions while being not just misleading by accident or on purpose (on purpose example: Michael Moore getting the rifle at the bank) but 100% a known lie from the filmmaker himself.

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Moral Blackmail and the Forgiveness Demand

Considering the post-Me Too redemption arc.

Like the apologies that are issued not from sincere remorse or personal change but out of a transitory or transactional search for personal gain, such forgiveness—coerced, manipulated, and insincere—is an insult to the genuine article. Herman speaks instead of a unilateral kind of forgiveness that many of the women she spoke with aimed for, something less akin to reconciliation and restoration of the perpetrator and more like a private, personal, and one-sided emotional divestment on the part of the victim—a gradual dissipation of rage and bitterness. ...[She] characterizes this emotional resolution in brutally bleak terms: “Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past.”

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The first ever reality-based movie … everything begins and ends in 30 days!

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Rest in peace, Morgan...

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