Topic: Liberal Fascism
That would be Mother Jones senior editor Kiera Butler, who just published an article in her mag claiming that eating three meals a day is “racist.” I’m not making this up. “Dogmatic adherence to mealtimes is anti-science, racist, and might actually be making you sick,” is the subtitle of her article,“Why You Should Stop Eating Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.”
Just what the hell is Butler talking about? It seems that when the Europeans arrived in the New World, the found that Native Americans didn’t eat three meals a day—which the Evil Ice People took as one more piece of evidence that the natives were ungovernable savages. So you see, consuming three meals a day perpetuates a vicious racial stereotype. Besides, Butler adds, studies have shown (!) “that mice who skip feedings are leaner and live longer than their nonskipping counterparts.” So by passing on breakfast you can fight racism and perhaps even live an additional 1.638 years!
One of the least amiable traits of the contemporary Left is its relentless politicization of everything, from social policy to snacking, a vice well on display here. Less obvious but also worthy of note is Butler’s dismissive attitude toward the social function of mealtimes. She quotes with approval experts (!) who say that we should just eat when we feel like it. So much for that family dinner, already an endangered social convention. Oh, but I forgot, the family is not only unimportant but evil: a manifestation of sexism. Thus eating when you want strikes a blow against the patriarchy, I guess…
But I’ll leave to Tallyrand to deliver the rhetorical death blow to Kiera Butler: “Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.” Take that, you nosebleed!
