Public Consumption

    I had to go to the dentist the other day to get a crown, finishing up the root canal that got underway last month. This took a while, so I sat with a magazine for a while. One discussion that stood out was a bunch of angry letters about the cook Paula Dean, with whom I am passingly familiar as someone who uses butter by the tub. Apparently she has Type two diabetes.

  Apparently this is a point of moral outrage with a number of people, who feel that the fact her cooking show does not revolve around 'diabetic' recipes and the fact she didn't tell people that she had the condition at the start means that she was 'lying'. 

 Because apparently sharing high calorie recipes with people makes every detail of your life open for public consumption...and forses people to watch your show and make your butter rich dishes?

 I don't understand this. No one is forcing people to watch. No one is forcing anyone to cook like she does, and it's no one else's business but hers how she handles her own condition.

 Where do we get this idea that we have a say in how she handles herself? It's as obnoxious as people arguing over weather or not 'Suri's' clothes are cute and fashionable enough.