Thursday, August 09, 2007

Fat is a discrimination issue

fat=bad behaviors?
Today's assumption: if you are fat, you are doing something bad.
A study: Fatness is contagious!!!
I was thinking about the things that a fat person cannot do without others looking down on them or making mean comments. Here is my list; feel free to add to it!
- eat any food, even "healthy" food
- engage in athletic activity ("ewww look at all that fat jiggling")
- exercise in a gym or other public place ("who do you think you're kidding?")
- wear revealing clothing ("ewww gross")
- wear overly casual clothing (we get called slobs, while skinny people get a pass on wearing sweatpants in public)
- be sick ("maybe if you'd lose weight, you would be healthy")
- go to a doctor or emergency room ("It looks like you have a broken nose. You should lose weight.")
- date someone who is not fat ("what is wrong with him, doesn't he notice?" "he can do better than that"), especially someone who is regarded as good-looking (even a good-looking fat man is regarded as dating beneath his station if he dates a fat girl)
- have or adopt children, OR decide to not have children
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