Dismantling Anti-Fat Bias

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Unfortunately listened to this over lunch. She basically equates fat bias and discrimination to racism. Learned about "thin privilege" and the fact that airline seatbelts not fitting fatty's is a form of oppression. 40 minute segment and the health hazards of being obese aren't even mentioned...the fact that doctors weigh you is a form of oppression. When a doctor tells you you need to lose weight they're dicriminating against fatties.

Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith says efforts to fight childhood obesity have caused kids to absorb an onslaught of body-shaming messages. We talk about thin privilege, how to neutralize food and the word "fat," and how diet culture hurts everyone. Her new book is Fat Talk.

I think she's biased in her assessment....

 

[Rifler]

I think she's fat...

 

[Finance85]

I'm not going to let go of my fat bias. I'm not going to help people glorify being fat. If people want to be fat, I don't care, just don't try to force me to like it. While genetics are a factor, fat people do have a measure of control over their condition.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

I'm not going to let go of my fat bias. I'm not going to help people glorify being fat. If people want to be fat, I don't care, just don't try to force me to like it. While genetics are a factor, fat people do have a measure of control over their condition.

According to her telling people to eat healthy food is a form of oppression. We should embrace unhealthy food... if folks want to shove it down their throats....mentioning it is a form of oppression. We're speaking from "thin" privilege and it's perpetuates white supremacy somehow, Amazing stuff...

What amazed me is that there was ZERO pushback from the interviewer....zero. Pretty stunning...

 

[bhawk24bob]

She's look at the camera because she wants to eat it

 

[QChawks]

Iowa 6
Torbee 9

 

[IowaPackFan]

Everyone is fat biased— especially when they have to sit next to a 400 pound fatty on a plane…. When your private jet is going under maintenance and your backups won’t be there in time.

 

[SoonerBeAHawk]

And to think that just a few administrations ago the First Lady led a campaign to get fit and lose weight.

Amazing and sad to me that social/political movements can now trump basic medicine.

 

[hydro2.0]

I don’t hate fat people but they really are gross. I’m not talking people that are a little meatier, I’m talking fat fat.

And lol at “thin privilege” she just making excuses so she can eat like shit and feel good about herself.

 

[Rifler]

What amazed me is that there was ZERO pushback from the interviewer....zero. Pretty stunning...

Not surprising,.. Haven't you noticed that within the boundaries of the left, any opinion, on any topic, is acceptable,.. Nothing is wrong, incorrect, stupid, or even just a bad idea.

 

[EasyHawk]

She looks like what clothing companies are looking for to put in commercials now.

 

[artradley]

I'm not going to let go of my fat bias. I'm not going to help people glorify being fat. If people want to be fat, I don't care, just don't try to force me to like it. While genetics are a factor, fat people do have a measure of control over their condition.

You will care if they're sitting next to you on an airplane...

(EDIT: looks like someone already used that angle.)

 

[EasyHawk]

 

[Finance85]

Everyone is fat biased— especially when they have to sit next to a 400 pound fatty on a plane…. When your private jet is going under maintenance and your backups won’t be there in time.

I know, right!?

 

[Finance85]

You will care if they're sitting next to you on an airplane...

(EDIT: looks like someone already used that angle.)

You're right. If it actually affects me I do care.

I was on a flight and the fattie was in the middle seat. The armrest wouldn't go all the way down. I just said, "hey I know you're uncomfortable, and I'm sorry about that, but the armrest needs to be down, and I am not giving up my space". Dude sat with his arms out, and resting on the tray table when it was allowed, the entire flight.

 

[McLovin32]

Not surprising,.. Haven't you noticed that within the boundaries of the left, any opinion, on any topic, is acceptable,.. Nothing is wrong, incorrect, stupid, or even just a bad idea.

Lol holy **** what a stupid post

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Lol holy **** what a stupid post

I like it. keeps things spicey in here

I don't care if people want to be fat, but don't have kids when you can't even bend over to pick up something on the floor while smoking a Pall Mall

 

[McLovin32]

I like it. keeps things spicey in here

I don't care if people want to be fat, but don't have kids when you can't even bend over to pick up something on the floor while smoking a Pall Mall

Yeahhh, just found it funny that it's clearly the left that any opinion on any topic is acceptable. It's definitely not the nuts on the right that believe the Dems are a bunch of satanic child molesters conspiring against Donald Trump or insert any INSANE conspiracy theory that the right pushes routinely.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

I'm left of center and I don't see any problem with the discussion

It is a clear and imminent danger to the USA. Medical costs are somewhat skyrocketing because of obesity. Go to just about any other country in the world and you won't see fattys like America.

Diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, organ failures, high blood pressure, etc have something in common....

 

[torbee]

Unfortunately listened to this over lunch. She basically equates fat bias and discrimination to racism. Learned about "thin privilege" and the fact that airline seatbelts not fitting fatty's is a form of oppression. 40 minute segment and the health hazards of being obese aren't even mentioned...the fact that doctors weigh you is a form of oppression. When a doctor tells you you need to lose weight they're dicriminating against fatties.

Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith says efforts to fight childhood obesity have caused kids to absorb an onslaught of body-shaming messages. We talk about thin privilege, how to neutralize food and the word "fat," and how diet culture hurts everyone. Her new book is Fat Talk.

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I think she's biased in her assessment....

She is an unserious person.

 

[torbee]

According to her telling people to eat healthy food is a form of oppression. We should embrace unhealthy food... if folks want to shove it down their throats....mentioning it is a form of oppression.

I feel like I heard a lot of those exact same talking points when Michelle Obama was trying to improve the nutritional value of school lunches.

I'm sure that can't be the case, though.

 

[torbee]

She's look at the camera because she wants to eat it

They say the camera adds 15 pounds.

Apparently she was being filmed from 4 sides.

 

[torbee]

I'm left of center and I don't see any problem with the discussion

It is a clear and imminent danger to the USA. Medical costs are somewhat skyrocketing because of obesity. Go to just about any other country in the world and you won't see fattys like America.

Diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, organ failures, high blood pressure, etc have something in common....

I'm left of center as well and feel the same way.

As usual, Rifler was talking out his ass.

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Hell, there are fewer people to serve in the military solely based upon BMI

 

[lucas80]

Unfortunately listened to this over lunch. She basically equates fat bias and discrimination to racism. Learned about "thin privilege" and the fact that airline seatbelts not fitting fatty's is a form of oppression. 40 minute segment and the health hazards of being obese aren't even mentioned...the fact that doctors weigh you is a form of oppression. When a doctor tells you you need to lose weight they're dicriminating against fatties.

Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith says efforts to fight childhood obesity have caused kids to absorb an onslaught of body-shaming messages. We talk about thin privilege, how to neutralize food and the word "fat," and how diet culture hurts everyone. Her new book is Fat Talk.

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I think she's biased in her assessment....

Fun fact, Fresh Air debuted in 1975, and is a great program. This might have been a clunker.
Some of the issues addressed are real. Take note that there are some very unlikely alliances forming to ban Tik Tok, and other social media platforms, usage by teens. Those platforms promote a lot of hate against overweight people/teens.

 

[mnole03]

Everyone is fat biased— especially when they have to sit next to a 400 pound fatty on a plane…. When your private jet is going under maintenance and your backups won’t be there in time.

Nobody wants a 400lb person on their jet. It uses the same fuel as bringing along four models/escorts.

 

[JRHawk2003]

Unfortunately listened to this over lunch. She basically equates fat bias and discrimination to racism. Learned about "thin privilege" and the fact that airline seatbelts not fitting fatty's is a form of oppression. 40 minute segment and the health hazards of being obese aren't even mentioned...the fact that doctors weigh you is a form of oppression. When a doctor tells you you need to lose weight they're dicriminating against fatties.

Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith says efforts to fight childhood obesity have caused kids to absorb an onslaught of body-shaming messages. We talk about thin privilege, how to neutralize food and the word "fat," and how diet culture hurts everyone. Her new book is Fat Talk.

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I think she's biased in her assessment....

I heard some of it too

As a guy who has lost some by some major changes she pisses me off

 

[Bonerfarts]

Say what you will about Rogan, but I agree with Goggins.

 

[JRHawk2003]

I'm not going to let go of my fat bias. I'm not going to help people glorify being fat. If people want to be fat, I don't care, just don't try to force me to like it. While genetics are a factor, fat people do have a measure of control over their condition.

YES 1000% YES

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Nobody wants a 400lb person on their jet. It uses the same fuel as bringing along four models/escorts.

Yeah, they are taking you out of your pimping game style. Not cool.

 

[bhawk24bob]

It is fascinating that we just got done with a few years of a virus that was more likely to kill unhealthy people by continuing this crap that it’s ok to be unhealthy without judgment. Sorry fatty, take a walk instead of reaching for the cheese

 

[OrlandNole]

Most of HROTGIA in this thread...

 

[FAUlty Gator]

These fat fvcks and anorexics need to figure their shit out, with their fold over/ pointy elbows. Tired of that shit.

 

[Ehhhdolph]

Horizontal stripes is a good look for a chunker. At first glance, it appeared she was leaning on a tin of Danish butter cookies.

"Dismantling." I'm sure glad we taught the activists that word.

 

[bhawk24bob]

She’s contributing to food price inflation through her increased demand

 

[Colonoscopy]

There's a difference between being a dick to somebody because of their weight and not finding them attractive or judging the weight to be a health problem. I'm not sure she's separating them out well enough.

As far as society not accommodating overweight people. Well, that'll all change in a hurry because capitalism.

 

[Colonoscopy]

Say what you will about Rogan, but I agree with Goggins.

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If there's a market for it... why not. Again, we'll exploit obesity for any gain(!) we can just like anything else.

That said, there's certainly a bit of virtue signaling and back-patting for being inclusive here. That fat model.

It's a novelty that way now. In time it'll either be in demand and profitable or it won't.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Not surprising,.. Haven't you noticed that within the boundaries of the left, any opinion, on any topic, is acceptable,.. Nothing is wrong, incorrect, stupid, or even just a bad idea.

That seems pretty prevalent in journalism across the spectrum.

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

According to her telling people to eat healthy food is a form of oppression. We should embrace unhealthy food... if folks want to shove it down their throats....mentioning it is a form of oppression. We're speaking from "thin" privilege and it's perpetuates white supremacy somehow, Amazing stuff...

What amazed me is that there was ZERO pushback from the interviewer....zero. Pretty stunning...

And NPR receives public funding.

@RileyHawk approves.

 

[blhawk]

She looks like what clothing companies are looking for to put in commercials now.

I wish the country was a lot more fit but when you consider the percentage of the population that is overweight to obese it really does make sense. I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner