Fatscrimination
Agree or disagree with this tweet from Sara E. Mayhew?
@saramayhew
"Fat" isn't what you are, it's something you have. Stop promoting yourself as part of a culture of people discriminated against. @skepchicks
Fatscrimination
Agree or disagree with this tweet from Sara E. Mayhew?
@saramayhew
"Fat" isn't what you are, it's something you have. Stop promoting yourself as part of a culture of people discriminated against. @skepchicks
Agree that the cultural promotion should stop, but not fully that's it's "something you have, not what you are." "Fat" is a descriptor. Hell, I'm a size two, but I HAVE some fat. My mother-in-law, though, IS fat.
ahw at November 4, 2013 8:08 AM
Your mother-in-law probably does not define herself by her fat, or participate in various social justice efforts to make us all reign in our evil fat hatred, fat shaming and discrimination against the fat.
Compare to shakesville which seems to fetishize the supersized.
I believe what Mayhew is objecting to is the new social justice warrior line that basically there is nothing wrongly with being very obese, it's just another valid lifestyle choice.
Perhaps she is objecting to this recent post over at skepchick.org where the author is upset that Michelleo Obama's appearance on the Biggest Loser will create more eating disorders across America and suggests that the Biggest Loser encourages a culture of fat shaming, fat phobia, and discrimination.
http://skepchick.org/2013/11/an-open-letter-to-michelle-obama/
That said, there is some evidence that it is healthy for people to gain some weight as they age, and maybe carry around "extra" weight.
Regardless, I have seen first hand what too much extra weight does in terms of health and quality of life in the aging and so I try to keep that healthy extra weight to a reasonable amount.
The fat culture that skepchick and shakesville defends has little to do with a little extra healthy weight and much more to do with supersized fries and pizza.
jerry at November 4, 2013 11:12 AM
Lily Tomlin (as a cosmetics diva):
"Remember, there are only two types of women: Those who have cellulite, and those who ARE cellulite."
lenona at November 4, 2013 12:13 PM
Its not 'fat discrimination' its:
"Oh holy FUCK that is hard to goddamn look at, please dear gods or demons, take my eyes that they need not suffer the horror to which they now bear witness!"
If you are hard to look at, people will not be happy to look at you.
If you are a 87 lbs walking skeleton, or a 380 lbs whale, you are equally an eyesore, people don't buy products that make them think about things that are unpleasant.
People don't boast about going out with Jabba the Hut.
Put down the protest sign and start walking on a treadmill. Put down the donut, pick up a steak.
Robert at November 4, 2013 4:18 PM
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