Supersize Me

I remember watching that documentary years ago in college during class. It kept talking about how eating McDonalds on a daily basis would make you obese and yet I couldn't help but notice that one guy who had a Big Mac meal twice a day and still remained relatively slender. There's a huge dissonance there and the documentary never got around to properly addressing it.

Of course, years passed and scientific studies and a Supersize Me counter-argument documentary have emerged to pretty much debunk a fair chunk of the central premise of Supersize Me. I especially love how they complained that Supersize Me isn't very scientific; after all, you can't be if you're basing your evidence on a sample size of one.

So why talk about Supersize Me now? Well, mostly because Morgan Spurlock, the director and test subject of Supersize has posted a preemptive post about his own sexual indiscretions and it's...honestly weird. I mean...good for him for admitting to all this before he is fingered but some parts of me is just troubled by him saying "When will they be coming for me?"

It feels more like he's trying to preemptively stop this from being bad press, especially when he goes to the part about how he made a settlement with an assistant when she quit her job and she threatened to tell the world about what he did. It just feels...calculated, to me at least.

Now, this could just be me being extremely cynical but it just feels like a cop out. But what would I know? I'm just a guy who shuts himself in for fear of doing the same thing that everyone else is doing because he knows that deep down inside, he's just the same as every other asshole out there and that the world is a better place without him.