He thinks that being kind is a weakness, and sees anyone who is vegan or plant based as a lesser person so he enjoys attacking that.
Absolutely this. If you are sick or whatever you are just lazy and you just need to push yourself and stuff. Like it's really that old tale of everything is your own fault and you're just lazy and you MUST "punish" yourself by exercising extra hard after you've been "unhealthy" (aka living like a normal person like sometimes you just want to eat whatever you want and just hang and relax). I'm sure he also feels that taking something like Ozempic is somehow cheating because you are not working super hard and you are taking a short cut which is "unfair" because you didn't literally sweat it out or something (I don't want to go into the Ozempic debate but rather about that kind of narrative).
I feel like especially my generation has always been taught to be incredibly hard on ourselves which has caused a lot of mental issues, like depression, anxiety and phobias.
If there's anything we need is MORE kindness and MORE gentleness and if there's anything I love is someone who is just super kind? I hate that saying people use "nice guys finish last" like what? excuse me? If I want to be with someone in a relationship (of any kind!) one of the things I mostly look for is someone who is KIND? If I want to date someone I want that someone to just be super super super kind? I love gentle and kind people! And we need more of them!
I wish he would tell people to be kind to themselves and to others as well, it really helps not just mentally but physically as well. If you feel like a failure for missing a workout you're just going into a bad spiral (or at least more likely) but if your trainer tells you not to worry, be kind to yourself, just try again next time or go a bit gentler next time if last time was too hard or too much you're so much more likely to do better next time and to try again.
Forky is so stupid ugh.