I think it's also a return to the puritan idea that we are more righteous if we suffer. "If you like it, it's bad; if it tastes nasty then it's good for you." Anything which people enjoy doing seems to be attacked, and things which no one likes are "good for you".
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Date: 2007-11-13 02:34 pm (UTC)