Reply With QuoteSo true. I'm 5 foot 7, and I'm tired of fat 6 feet people smirk at my shortness and my lean frame.Originally Posted by Rattfink
That's insane, being overweight is often enough linked to laziness. Will calling people lazy constitute as a hate crime?
So true. I'm 5 foot 7, and I'm tired of fat 6 feet people smirk at my shortness and my lean frame.
Specially buoyant
i completely agree with the issue. as an ex obese person i can shed light on how harassing it is to be a fat person.I was mentally tortured,made fun of,ridiculed in the class,ragged in my college.My grades started faltering,i lost self confidence,attending classes became more like going to war.
it's a crime to be a fat person but it's a bigger crime to ridicule a fat person.
So its a choice like Homosechsuality? ask Ann Heche.........
The problem is that social engineering usually makes people more resentful.
You can't force people by law to love somebody.
This will not make the problem go away, but will simply result in more subtle forms of insult.
We simply eat too much for, so you will become overweight if you don't work in construction or something else with manual labor the chances are you will become overweight eventually if you don't exercise regularly.
Our eating habits are from a time when most people had to do hard physical labor, not sit in front of a PC.
Not to mention that the food industry today puts sugar in every product to increase appetite (and simply because sugar is dead cheap).
I'm not talking about Wall Mart land whales (which are pretty much a US phenomenon) but about "normal" fat people.
I remember that several years ago there was a big crack down on smoking in public places in Israel, it became quite common to hear people telling smokers that they pollute the air and should go kill themselves outside where they won't hurt anyone else.
I admit that it's not the same as calling someone a flat blob (even if they are ones) simply because it a question of body image that might cause a severe phsicological harm to some one, that being said, the western world is eating it self to an early grave costing billions in taxs and various economical hardships to the economy to treat obesity related disease.
There should be a public campaign to reduce obesity rates, especially among low social-economy ranks in society, promoting calling people fatty in derogatory way should be frown upon.
Warder
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Oh cram a sock in it, fatty.
If you had red hair they'd probably bust on you for that. A lot of ridicule, particularly if it happens ALL THE TIME, is because the person is an easy target. Going after easily distinguished physical traits is not because the traits are offensive. They usually have roots in other factors. Perhaps you or they or all of you are assholes and it's the quickest/easiest way to show disgust for each other. Nobody actually cares what another person looks like in that context. They just want to make that person feel bad and mocking a physical attribute is the easiest way.
Like, I wouldn't insult you by saying "you are a bad person and care for nobody but yourself because you didn't send your mother a card on her birthday" directly implying you are a bad person because of your actions which I may or may not know. It's too tough. I'd just say you are fat/skinny/ugly/whatever. Insult accomplished.
So I don't think it's just a fat thing.
This is retarded in so many ways.
Most importantly, it trivializes "real" hate-crime.
The colour of skin isn't a person's choice. But eating oneself to the point where they have to call a crane to get you out of your bed - in nine point nine out ten cases - is.
Restriction of speaking about something won't make people think good of it. They just will keep silent.
No one made fun of me when I was fat. I think it involved me kicking the **** out of other people.
You're all reading way too much into yet another piece of Telegraph crap.
All this is on the back of recent news over body image, and body dysmorphia in young children as a result of the 'ideal' media portrayal......strange that that media itself should now seek to trivialise it in this way. How many times do you see in a magazine, some article about children developing eating disorders, then on the next page saying some celeb' is too fat and some wacky diet plan.....media.....arseholes the lot of them.
I agree.
It is sad (and a little disgusting) when a person gets to a state, like the recent case in the tabloids where the morbidly obese 63st (882lbs/400kg) teenager had to be extracted from her room by the removal of an entire bedroom wall.
And as you say, most cases of being overweight are (probably - I have no statistics) due to self-choice. In these modern times, it is easier than ever to get fat, but people really need the willpower to stay healthy.
Calling someone "fatty" should not be illegal. In fact, perhaps it should be encouraged. If someone calls you fat, and it is a true statement by scientific measures, then instead of being offended, take a look at yourself, have some pride in your body and become healthy!
"Hate crime" is utter bollocks. Save that offense for truly terrible things.
That's the stupidest fvcking thing I've ever read. You closet racists need to wake the fvck up. Nobody is buying your pious bull$hit.
Last edited by C.Puffs; 05-31-2012 at 10:00 AM.
They've outsourced the death camps to Poland? UK truly going down the toilet
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