The Weird Downside Of The Fat-Jab Craze That’s Quietly Reshaping Marriages

The following is an edited transcript excerpt from The Michael Knowles Show.

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Everyone’s hot on the fat shots. Everyone’s taking them.

They say it’s for health reasons. Maybe in some cases it is, but for a lot of people, they just want to look better.

Well, as it turns out, there is a real downside to the practice, namely, people are now getting divorced because of them.

This is from The Telegraph in the UK: 

Fat jabs to unleash divorce boom.

Couples undergoing rapid weight loss are twice as likely to end “unhealthy relationships,” the study finds.

Now, what’s an “unhealthy relationship”? Generally, that just means a relationship I no longer enjoy being in. Does that mean one of the spouses is beating you? Or does it just mean you’re sick of your husband or wife? It can mean any of those things.

The article continues:

The growing popularity of fat jabs is expected to increase Britain’s divorce rates as slimmed-down partners look for new love, health experts have said. According to research from academics in Sweden, people who undergo rapid weight-loss are twice as likely to divorce. The study focused on people who had been fitted with gastric bands, known as bariatric surgery, the risk of weight-loss drugs will trigger an even larger divorce trend in the future, researchers said.

This brings me back to a conversation I had with that “looksmaxx” guy, Clavicular, before everything went south, before he was arrested, before all that.

I asked him: What are you after? What do you want?

He said: I just want to look as good as I possibly can. I want to “looksmaxx.”

I said: Okay, that’s interesting.

I found him very thoughtful for a 19-year-old. He was going down a bad path, but he thought about things. And I asked him a question he couldn’t really answer — but also kind of did.

I asked: What is looking good for? What’s the goal?

And he didn’t have an answer. The answer he gave was: “I just want to mog.”

And what is “mog”? Entire dictionaries could be written on that word. Basically, it means to dominate, to be better than others, to outshine them.

But I always thought, if you’re a guy, you want to look good to get a girl. Or, if you’re an actor, you want to look good in order to get a part in a movie. Or to get a job, or win votes, or something. But mostly, men want to look good to get a girl. Same for women, to attract a guy.

But he said no, it’s looksmaxxing for its own sake. Even if it has negative effects.

He was taking so many hormones that he was impotent. Couldn’t have kids.

Well, that defeats the purpose, right? If the point is to look good to get married and have a family, you just undermined that.

But he said that’s not even the point.

And that’s how I feel about the fat jabs. Why are people getting them? What’s it for?

They’ll say it’s for health — but there are downsides too. So, I don’t know — talk to your doctor.

If you’re single, I kind of get it. It’s tough out there. But if you’re already married, isn’t there something kind of fitting about getting a little plump? You’re not on the market anymore. You want to look good for your spouse, but you’re no longer competing at the clubs every night.

And if you make an idol out of your looks, that might actually undermine your marriage.

Our Lord says, “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?”

What does it profit someone to lose all that weight but lose their marriage?

What does it profit a man to looksmaxx but lose his family, his legacy?

What’s it for? You’ve got to ask that question about anything in life.

Back before modern philosophy scrambled everyone’s brains — back to Aristotle — we understood that to know what something is, you have to know what it is for.

So what’s the fat jab for?

Put it down and ask that.

What does it profit a man to mog the whole world but lose his, maybe slightly chubby, wife?

Not a good trade.