That's the big problem with North America. I can't speak for the rest of the world, since my experiences are only here in North America: People are hung up on their rights. They're hung up on the founding rights to their country, they're hung up on their 21st-century equality rights, they're hung up on rights established by the century-long battles that unions took on with the all-powerful gentry-esque-employers. When does the majority strive for something more, and actually manage to be more? Well... that's a big question... but the simple retort is this: The majority isn't striving for anything more.
So what do we get when we have a majority which is lazy, but thinks they're the epitome... the highest and absolute best generation to ever grace the Earth? You get a group of people who get butthurt when they think their rights have been grazed by a feather, but who are too lazy to figure out what a carbohydrate is.
That brings me (in a rushed way) to my point: When someone reads "... and no excuse", they immediately personalize it, and attribute it as an affront on their right to continue living as they please (the path of least resistance). The sentiment is many... granted, though, it can be summed up to be as follows: "I have no excuse?! I'm raising 2 children, I work 35 hours a week, and I have to cook and clean and get my kids to school! And I eat healthy and go on walks, I'm 40, normal women with normal genetics can't realistically do that without working out 4 hours a day!" That's the sentiment... the unintelligent, uneducated, unmotivated, slobbish sentiment. To anyone who doesn't express that opinion, and has no problem with her, but is overweight... there's nothing wrong with *that* person... one can choose to be overweight, and still be a motivated, intelligent individual... but that's not the average person at all.
The average person should read it as motivation: If your genetics truly are holding you back, or you simply aren't motivated enough, then that's entirely fine. But that's not an affront against you. For the majority of people, it should be a wake-up call: Eating 3 pieces of toast, lightly buttered, with jam in the morning, alongside a coffee with milk instead of cream, maybe a bagel instead or something, and a banana, doesn't equate to eating healthy. Count those calories, get educated, stop playing the bro-science (or in this case, pseudo-science) game that women and men often play, of simply saying "I eat healthy, I go on walks, but my age just doesn't allow me to shed the weight."
