saint808 said:
who is this guy? i want to hate too... i hate most everyone else so it won't be that far of a stretch.
I tried to find pics, but could not, I did fine the following and put in bold the important stuff.Fat discrimination
I think fat people are one of the largest groups that suffer from invisible discrimination. And since I am a certified, card carrying member, I am allowed to have made that pun.
Seriously, TV commercials have to be among the worst offenders.
Ever notice how often the character of scorn or the brunt of the joke is a fat person?
For example, there is a Honda SUV commercial that extols the virtues of their new SUV - including how quiet it is. The commercial shows an attractive, slender couple parked by a stream enjoying the view of grazing deer. All of a sudden, the scene cuts to a large SUV crashing through the woods. The deer get scared away by the noise. The large SUV screeches to a halt next to the Honda, and the driver, seeing nothing, asks "what you looking at?" And the appearance of this obnoxious driver? A fat man.
How about the Ditech.com mortgage commercials? The buffoon loan officer who can't even get his mother to do business with him? A fat man.
And then there's the new Bounty napkin commercial. The one where you see a child "pigging out" on a pile of food drowned in sauce, creating a mountain of napkins because they don't stand up. Then the child is given a new Bounty napkin, and his messy hands and face are tamed by the Bounty napkin. Is the child star of this commercial a good looking sixteen-year-old with a hollow leg? No! A fat child!
Are fat people jeopardizing their heath? Of course - there is irrefutable medical evidence.
Would many people rather hop in the sack with a buff movie star type than with a fat person? Sure.
Does that justify that fat people earn less than their slender co-workers and are many times less likely to be promoted or hired? That they should be the object of ridicule and scorn?
No.
Unfortunately, our society views being overweight as a character flaw. Proof that the person is lazy or weak-willed. That the person doesn't care about him/herself, so why should anyone else.
For most people, those aren't the reasons. Most fat people are fat because of medical or environmental factors. Some causes include metabolic or psychological issues, work environment, hereditary bias, cultural factors, the barrage of advertising by giant food conglomerates, and stupid dietary guidelines that make it all to easy to gain weight while being deluded that one is eating "properly."
Our society is making progress in learning tolerance in many areas. I look forward to the day when a person's weight is one of these areas.