Why is ridiculing overweight people still ok?
☆ElenaDiamond☆
2012/07/24 15:27:35
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I have seen this over and over on the internet. We protect kids, we protect people with cancer, we protect people with heart disease, we protect people with deformities. We don't laugh at those jokes. We don't use them as insults. We don't think the ultimate insult to a woman is calling her skinny. I see this escalating. Overweight women calling thin women bony, thin women calling overweight women fat, everyone calling everyone stupid childish names.
I don't expect people to all have the same Idea of what is beautiful. I don't want to reward obesity. I don't want to encourage anorexia. However, I do want people to just take a minute to think. Thats all. No one wants you to date a "chubber" if you aren't attracted, likewise no one thinks if you like your girls with some meat on their bones you are giving "bony women" the cold shoulder. Everyone likes something different. I am not saying we should encourage obesity, but ridicule? Seems a little extreme.
Obesity is no laughing matter.
I don't expect people to all have the same Idea of what is beautiful. I don't want to reward obesity. I don't want to encourage anorexia. However, I do want people to just take a minute to think. Thats all. No one wants you to date a "chubber" if you aren't attracted, likewise no one thinks if you like your girls with some meat on their bones you are giving "bony women" the cold shoulder. Everyone likes something different. I am not saying we should encourage obesity, but ridicule? Seems a little extreme.
Obesity is no laughing matter.
Among children and adolescents, annual hospital costs related to overweight and
obesity more than tripled over the past two decades – rising to $127 million
during 1997–1999 (in 2001 constant U.S. dollars), up from $35 million during
1979–1981.
Direct health costs attributable to obesity have been estimated at $52 billion in
1995 and $75 billion in 2003.
- Obesity is the #2 cause of preventable death in the United States
- 60 million Americans, 20 years and older are obese
- 9 million children and teens ages 6-19 are overweight
- Being overweight or obese increases the risk of health conditions and diseases including: Breast cancer, Coronary heart disease, Type II diabetes, Sleep apnea, Gallbladder disease, Osteoarthritis, Colon cancer, Hypertension and Stroke
Top Opinion
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melly~thwarting Satan since... 2012/07/24 23:58:53It is not OK.
+12So stop calling liberals childish names, too. I would never mock anyone for their weight. People are not their weight.
It didn't hurt my feelings. I am secure in my looks, but I thought about what if a young girl who was insecure about her body saw something like that.
So insensitive.
If someone is called fat over concern for their health, it's to make them realize the truth about their situation, not to insult.
It all comes down to intent. Just because someone wants to use it as an insult, does not mean it's ok.
I don't think you're overweight, so they're wrong. :)
I already knew that. She was just being a jerk.
It's not ok because it does hurt, badly...and not for the moment, or the day, or week. No it hurts for much longer than that. That in turn causes several things. One, is low self esteem. Two, is eating disorders, whether that be anorexia, bulimia, or even eating more.
I hate the generalization that big people just sit around shoving their face all day, non stop & with fattening foods. And also that they don't excercise, ever. I am not saying that no overweight person does this but certainly not all. And not all overweight people are that way because they woke up one day & thought, you know what I want to be fat & ridiculed, yep that's my goal. I get upset because we have all of this anti-bullying going around for gay rights for teens, or against racism, etc...etc...Which don't get me wrong, I am not against but I have personally never seen anything like this to put an end to bullying overweight kids. They too, become depressed, are shunned, feel like no one understands or cares, etc. All of this carries into adulthood, if they don't commit suicide first.
I think we should stop mocking people.
Besides bigger is not necessarily unhealthy. I care more about women's health than their weight.
Kids can't protect themselves
People with cancer, heart disease and deformities can't help themselves, it's generally not their fault.
But it's not like children, cancer, and people with deformities aren't made fun of, I've heard countless jokes about all of them, and then some. Heart disease isn't that funny, but I'm sure people make fun of it one way or another.
Some people take it too far, but that's just how people are these days. People aren't nice and they don't care.
The movie God Bless America covers this issue, of course not about overweight people, but the unrelenting ridicule of everyone and anyone for cheap laughs no matter the cost. I recommend watching God Bless America, a great movie although the end was a little eh.
I think its remarkably childish.
Lame argument.
Should we ridicule you for being stupid?
I just had someone attempt to insult me by posting up a picture of a very obese woman. I thought about it a little bit. I am not overweight, but how insulting that the ultimate insult a person can be called is fat.