Zephorah

Mulgrew. Flemeth. (Kidding).

Levar Burton will always be reading rainbow guy, no matter what he does.

Zachary Quinto. Silar. One of the better villains, until the writers went on strike and the show fell off the rails. Granted, this likely just marks the man’s range as an actor.

John Cho. The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.

Koening. Bester.

You could argue that everything Stewart does is equally well done. Scrooge. X. Gurney.

I learned it on the PC game Civilizations.

I worked with an old nurse who said back in her day women could typically only be teachers and nurses, on the educated side of jobs.

She went to pilot school. She kept passing her challenges even after being told she wasn’t capable, as a woman, working hard, determined dealing with all manner of verbal crap from the men around her. It was her final bit of time there, with her last take-offs and landing with the instructor before she’d pass the program.

The instructor flat out told her women weren’t fit to be pilots. That even if she passed she wouldn’t pass. She did her final takeoffs and landings, perfect as she told it, just like the rest of the program that brought her all the way to the end, and was promptly failed by this instructor.

Which is why she was a nurse.

These stories aren’t new. Talk to your grandmas. Odds favor them having some horror stories for you.

There’s psychology in play here. For some people food is the only pleasure they get in their otherwise miserable existence. Genetically, some people get a greater pleasure “hit” from food than others, some of whom, on the extreme, treat food as this thing they have to do now and then in order to keep living.

Fixing this hedonistic approach to food means modifying their life to contain something else to replace this form of pleasure. If they can get their “hits” elsewhere, food consumption can then fall off.

Worse, in addiction scenarios, there’s no going cold turkey on food.

The resolution could be finding success in some pursuit. A relationship with someone awesome. Pleasure replacement can take many forms.

As is, for those who get a pleasure “hit” from food, there is minimal restricted access.