A piece in the Mail by Professor Max Nieuwdorp of Amsterdam UMC. If you don’t subscribe to the Mail, you need only know that the second paragraph contains this gem:

“Put simply: we are our hormones.”

As a statement designed to appeal to women, pandering to their lack of accountability, it’s a classic.

I once had an email exchange with a morbidly obese feminist on the issue of obesity. She’d read books written by a man, which claimed that obesity had nothing to do with calorie intake and calories expended. You have to admire men who make money by pandering to women’s stupidity and gullibility, astrologers among them.

I replied that I’d lost a lot of weight in preceding months by giving up alcohol, reducing other calories, and exercising regularly. Her reply was along the lines of, “You don’t have the hormones women have!” I asked her where she imagined the atoms in her fat came from, if not from what she ate and drank, to which she produced a torrent of abuse. I replied calmly that her absurd position refuted the Laws of Conservation of Mass and Conservation of Energy, at which she went batshit. A happy memory.

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