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| Thread ID: 98242 | 2009-03-16 23:22:00 | This is why you're fat | Peterj116 (6762) | PC World Chat |
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| 757047 | 2009-03-19 03:41:00 | No - I am disgusted when I see them anywhere, especially in the supermarket. I feel like saying do you need any more food ? Uh, Then you would be the one with the problem. I almost feel sorry for someone walking around in a constant state of revulsion of the people around them because because they don't meet your criteria for body shape. Have you considered talking to someone about your hangups? |
Metla (12) | ||
| 757048 | 2009-03-19 05:19:00 | I don't think it's a national scandal or problem . I am sure there are fat Germans, Italians, Polish and NZ-ers too . But - youse guys got me to Google "obese Americans" and I found a few funny - and some not-so funny article and pictures . Some are so sad and others are just plain nasty . I try to eat about 3,000 calories a day and that holds my weight where it is, but I get a little weak feeling about 2 PM or so even after a heavy lunch . Metabolisms are not all created equal and at my age and in my health I am as active as my body will let me be . Pain aside, I work with a friend in his construction business (doctor's orders to stay active) - not for the money - but to stay useful and limber up to the point of serious pain and then I take a vicadin and go home . So I am not typical (maybe) but I am also not overweight although I'd like to drop 10 to 12 lbs just for personal reasons . Here's something to chew on/upon: Obese Moonbats Learn How to Throw Their Weight Around The victim studies movement that is steadily replacing anything resembling a useful education on college campuses has found a new area to expand: fat studies . Fat studies is an exercise in unmitigated moonbattery, as an approving New York Times makes clear: Nestled within the humanities and social sciences fields, fat studies explores the social and political consequences of being fat . [ . . . ] Proponents of fat studies see it as the sister subject — and it is most often women promoting the study, many of whom are lesbian activists — to women's studies, queer studies, disability studies and ethnic studies . In many of its permutations, then, it is the study of a people its supporters believe are victims of prejudice, stereotypes and oppression by mainstream society . Research topics include how fat people are marginalized, how they are insensitively blamed for their own gluttony and sloth, how doctors exaggerate the health risks of obesity, etc . Ivory tower moonbats are going through all the usual motions, expressing skepticism about the "war on obesity" and discussing "weightism" in law school tort classes . The anthology "Fat Studies Reader" collects scholarly research on the weighty subject of being fat . One chapter is entitled, "Jiggle in My Walk: The Iconic Power of the Big Butt in American Pop Culture . " A 29-year-old named Stefanie Snider is planning to write a dissertation for the University of Southern California on, in the Times' words, "the intersection of queer and fat identities in the United States in the 20th century . " Size 18 burlesque dancer Cookie Woolner, who at age 32 is also still a graduate student, wrote her undergraduate thesis at Hampshire College on "positive representations of fat women in fanzines and underground media . " Meanwhile, tuition skyrockets, college students are found wanting in basic skills, and taxpayers are bled dry on behalf of institutions of supposedly higher learning . Even some professors are developing a dim awareness of how far they have wandered into the realm of self-parody . Wonders University of Colorado social psychologist Joseph B . Juhasz: Certainly we have not reached a point where we can do away with queer studies or race studies or women's studies . But where do you draw the line? Is there going to be a department of man-boy-love studies? Do we need polygamy studies? At which point do you say, enough already? We should have started saying it at least 40 years ago . See: obese . jpg, below NOTE: The c/p rules for that site required all the link to be posted and not redacted in any way . Sorry if it offends, but it was posted on a public website . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 757049 | 2009-03-20 08:42:00 | www.nytimes.com Check this out |
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