I don't think I'm inside my own mind today... Has society become so overly-sensitive, or have I just become the worlds biggest douchebag? I am not a racist, I'm not a sexist, and I don't even like to believe that these ideologies exist. We live in a society that should be able to accept everyone regardless of their skin colour, sexual orientation or personal habits and sometimes I forget that not everybody is as open minded and 'loving' as I am. (I use the term loving, just because I don't actually love everyone. I hate people, but I hate biggot's and hypocrites too. So when it all boil's down, I treat everybody equally, and so should you.)
Reading about this today, has opened my flood gates of anger. Now, let me set the record straight right here. I don't hate fat people, I don't really have any preconceived opinions about fat people. I like to judge people right when I first meet them. If you leave a good first impression, I'll like you. If you set a poor one, chances are I will hate you. Its not that I won't ever come to like you, its just that first impressions are very important to me. Thats how I judge people. I don't look at someone and say "That guy probably loves fried chicken." because he's black or, "That woman is probably a terrible driver" because she's asian. Though we like to laugh at jokes depicting these situations. I don't push upon these preconceived notions into my daily thought train.
Fat people, pushing for 'equality' sorry. That's complete bullshit. I happen to be a very tall, very skinny person. I get made fun of for my size (or lack their of) all the time. Do I want to climb to the rooftops and start rallying all the pasta and sushi loving geeks to let the world know that WE WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS BULLSHIT ANY LONGER? Fuck no because I know how ridiculously stupid that sounds.
"Protesters want the UK to follow San Francisco, where a law bans "fat-ism" in housing and employment and stops doctors pressing patients to slim down."
Lets stop the crazy train for a moment and think about this. If your doctor is pressing for you to slim down. It's because you're in a position that your habits and lifestyle could END your life. In a less tactful style, you're so fat you're putting yourself in an unfavorable position. I get it, everyone makes fun of the fat people. But the fact of the matter is, its something you can CHANGE, something you have complete control over. You don't have to, but don't whine like a goddamn seven year old whenever somebody takes a jab at your waste size or eating habits.
Obesity is an EPIDEMIC in the united states. That means its a more serious problem than swine flu, the war on drugs or terrorism, yet nobody gives a shit about it. If you want to croak and have a heart attack because you can't get enough eclairs in your system or because you love to eat potato chips. That's not MY problem. I have enough common sense to realize that biology does not dictate that we are all born to be skinny and thin like the popular culture would like us to realize. There are more important things to worry about than your fat ass. What about all the hundreds of thousands of UNEMPLOYED, HOMELESS FAMILIES that aren't eating anything because they have nothing? Who gives a fuck about them, right? So long as you get to eat KFC whenever you fucking feel like it, as long as you can eat it without having to be hastled about being a fat ass, right?
Now, the few of you who actually read things through might be saying. "Well Bryce, the article is about people being discriminated against because of their size, its not about the fact that they don't like being called fat (Which they probably don't) its about the fact that the chances of them being hired for a job, for example, are being affected because they are fat.
"For instance, people in inner cities are much more likely to be overweight because of poorer education, poorer housing and poorer job opportunities. "Not everyone has a free choice about controlling their weight."
Okay let's stop right there for a second. Now fat people have no control over their size. Suggesting obesity is an epidemic, wouldn't be unlike suggesting it is a disease. Is physical activity too much for these people? I don't hate fat people but I fucking hate lazy people. If you're too lazy to get up off of the couch and go for a walk every day to help out your size and health than you will not get ANY sympathy from me.
And then there's this... Apparently the issue is big enough that somebody has taken the time to put together a very simple one page website outlining the problem of "fat-ism" without taking any time to put forth any kind of evidence for the case of fat-ism.
Fatism (n) -
1. Discrimination or prejudice based on a person's weight.
Fatist (n & adj) -
1. A a person with a prejudiced belief that one persons weight is superior to others.
2. based on intolerance to a person's weight.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the internet equivelant of me walking out onto the street and screaming and passers by that Stephen Harper is, in fact, a smarmy slimy worm and that I do not like him. The fact that the webpage for fat-ism has very little to do with the actual combat OF fat person suggests to me that someone very lazy made this web site. And then we spiral back to my previous argument. If you're Fat and willing to change, than I can support you. If you're fat and lazy and you want to continue to be fat and lazy without people bothering you, that's your right. Just don't cry when somebody takes a jab at you for diving into a burrito or buying a few value meals from the drive thru at a Wendys.
Further resurch into this development tells me that this is becoming a wide spread cultural problem. Give me a fucking break! Do I get to start parading around about the moron's from Fox News for pushing their anti-videogame propoganda to the moronic parents who buy into every little thing that they talk about on their news program? NO because I have the sense to realize I am only ONE person, and in our society there are much larger (heh), much more important problems to think about.
To shift gears for a moment. Maybe I am a "fatist" but I wouldn't discriminate against a fat person for being fat, am I the only one who sees how ridiculous this is. I guess that's my issue, the fact that being fat is considered discriminatory at all. And the fact that the fat people need to cry about it to the world because they feel slighted by the way society proposes one is to be acceptable is to be skinny and beautiful. Where are all the ugly people at? I'm sure they're being discriminated against too, right? Where's Steve Buschemi when you need him.
"we live in a culture where we obviously place a premium on fitness, and fitness has come to symbolize very important values in our culture, like hard work and discipline and ambition. Unfortunately, if a person is not thin, or is overweight or obese, then they must lack self-discipline, have poor willpower, etc., and as a result they get blamed and stigmatized."
This article suggests that biology is more responsible to size than we lay claim for. Something I've always believed, so finally the argument against 'fatism' has some thing to back it up. Just the fact that the fat people are feeling discriminated against to the point that they have to complain that its' anything close to racism or sexism is something I find a tad obtuse. I am being a fatist in saying that most of the fat people I know don't do anything to change the state their in. There's nothing scientific about that, they're just lazy. Go for a freaking walk. It's not about science and excersize, it's about being ACTIVE for christ sakes. I eat about as poorly, and as much, as some of the biggest people I know, and for the life of me I can't eclipse 180 pounds. That's biology at its finest right there folks. Could the fact that I walk damn near EVERYWHERE play part into that role? I'm willing to bet that it does. Don't blame the economy, and say there's more to it than that when there's not. When your rolls have rolls, it's no longer biological, its the fact that you do, in fact, have a problem!
In sum, because I don't care to talk about this "issue" anymore. I don't advocate 'fatism' but I don't really see it being portrayed as a legitimate issue until people start to present it more seriously. I found one practically informative article out of all the crap I read though, that's bullshit too. I just think that if people did a little less time complaining about whatever that is that bothers them be it discriminatory or, other. And a little more time taking steps to battle whatever it was that is slighting them whatsoever. Maybe the world would be a better place. There certainly would be a lot less of the pointless bullshit complaining that pisses me off, and that would be a great cause for celebration.
Until next time that I read something that sets off my spider-sense of bullshit that spawns an unorganized, but ultimately informative rant...
-PEACE
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