So… have you seen this article?
Apparently discrimination against our obese friends has actually risen.
This fact happens to support the argument I made on one of my previous posts: FAT is the new Black! in which I talk about how fat people have brought it upon themselves to be discriminated against, almost as much, if not more than the likely most discriminated against group currently… black people.
How have they brought it upon themselves? Because, they chose to be that way. And if they don’t like being discriminated against, they can stop being fat. You might say to me it’s difficult to lose weight, and I would say – Yeah, no shit, but it’s not impossible, and it’s actually not as hard as your pudgy mind has made it out to be. It IS impossible to change your skin color, unless you’re Michael Jackson.
This is why it’s interesting that (according to this article) fat discrimination is rising, while race and gender discrimination is lowering.
Again, the fundamental difference here? CHOICE. Fat people are being judged on the choices they have made that negatively affect their body. I believe that the discrimination that they feel is directed toward them is based more on these choices than their appearance. When a healthy person watches a 400 pound behemoth shoveling taco supremes into their face hole, they can’t help but judge how a person can do that to themselves.
If you’re fat, and your response to this is that you get upset when people discriminate against you because of what you think you ARE, I don’t believe that your fat body IS who you are… You probably think that there are “fat” people, and there are “thin” people. But there’s not. And if you continue to think that way, you’re going to only intensify your misguided hate toward people that judge you. There are only “people” that have chosen to add extra fat to their bodies, or not.
Comments?
“There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28. Sad to say, this ancient truth is nowhere to be seen in the modern American arena. What an interesting article on the discrimination of fat people. Like sexual harassment, the true victims rarely report it while the abused suffer in silence. This is a problem. Huge Problem. In my book, Wingtips with Spurs, I devote a chapter to discrimination and how it is often over-looked or swept into a dark corner. And yes, it still exists in modern America. While we pour more stupid laws into the books to prevent such painful actions, we fail to fix the real problem, that is, the root. That problem is the pride and vainglory that has infected our society from Hollywood to Wall Street. In addition, we have been conditioned by lawyers to believe that legal and moral are the same thing. So sad. Whenever a human is treated differently than the masses, we should take a cold, hard look at the situation. A hard look indeed. Maybe even the mirror.
You had me at Jesus.
[...] that they are not being judged by others really for their appearance, but because of the choices they have made that make them become and look [...]
Some people say that the poor are lazy and if they worked more they would not be in that situation. People say that uneducated people are stupid because they did not work to earn a degree.There are people who say that battered women do not stand for themselves and their children so they deserve what they get. There is an argument that raped women, children and men provoked their perpetrators so it was their fault. You are using exactly the same argument: that fat people choose the actions of people who discriminate against them, so they deserve to be humiliated and discriminated. I believe that it is OUR own choice and not other people’s to discriminate against others. Rethink CHOICE and you will find that choosing empathy, understanding and cooperation will lead to a much better world.
fat discriminator — why do you waste your time and energy on such things?
Rebecca Walker, an apparently enlightened and very intelligent Human being said it so eloquently, there is nothing that “mcBloggin” can say to that. Apparently their true ages show through their respective writing styles. Master McBloggin, I think I hear your Mommy telling you to quit spending so much time on the computer and play outside more.
Mcbloggenstein Your a genious i agree 100%
wtf is your deal, although it may be true that we have control over our health, it is still morally wrong to act as though we are better than somone else due to our weight. We are all beautiful and loved in some way and are not in the position to be judgemental about ANY ONE for any reason <3