Ever noticed this?

Question

I'm seeing people who'd never consider maligning an ethnic group or a person in a wheel chair ridiculing and poking fun about people who are overweight. Having no way of knowing whether the readers are themselves heavy people.

I'm a fairly slim fellow, but it doesn't require any will power on my part, and it isn't a virtue.

It's good to know some folk have their lives so straight and fine their perfection qualifies to make light of others who aren't protected by their political correctness inhibitions.

Are inane, mean-spirited stilted pedants protected by political correctness?

Wally: Hatemongers? Interesting term.

Thanks for the reply

Jack

Pat: The one about the giant saleswoman wearing a 'tent' with tastes in clothing not to his tastes etc etc. was deleted after I posted this.
Jack

Answer 1

another star from me . i have been made fun of all of my growing up years because i was a very fat kid. the emotional crap effects me to this day. i have struggled all my life with weight, thin-fat-thin-fat,etc. now that i am in my 50's it still hurts, i cannot stand any kind of this making fun business, i don't care if a person is tall, short, disabled or whatever. i always stand up for the underdog. because i know how it feels with cruel remarks !!

Answer 2

None of us know the personal stories of any person. I am a thicker than I used to be. I have fibromyalgia and excercise is extremely difficult for me. My husband is overwieght. He had a rare form of anemia when he was a child and almost didn't make it. It stunted his growth. All the men and most of the women in his family are big. Not necessarily fat but large in every way. He inherited those genes but now is shorter due to the problems he had as a baby. People can often be very cruel.
I do believe that some people are more likely to be heavy just as some are more likely to have wrinkles, some are more prone to have high blood pressure, vision or well you get the picture.
I choose the people I ''hang with'' carefully. I am often disappointed in human behavior. I have seen and heard too much racism and bigotry in my life.
I have to go and can't really finish this......

Answer 3

I have a best friend now for 60 years, she is as wide as she is tall, her size has never been an issue between us and I am as little as she is big. Now I have a pot gut and it really bothers her but I am not ridiculed over it. It did bother me when I worked at the PO and with several severely over weight young people--it was a sit down and key job and I worried about them, they would eat a huge bag of chips and 2 sodas on a 10 minute break. I kept my mouth shut and none of us ever made light of their problems. I had a boss whose little girl was wearing size large depends prior to being potty trained and she called her healthy. she was in special shoes by the time she was 5. I also watched her very tall mother go from slim to huge in 2 years. I often wonder how they are doing now. The little girl had to have special made clothes in the first grade--size wise she was an 18 adult. The media is partly to blame for this rock throwing---it is a bigger 'grim reaper' than the cigarette. We smokers get blamed for it all it seems. I say how about charging a fine for pork chops and oreos to save us from ourselves. Leave the heavy ones alone, they can't help it often.
EDIT: I have an addiction and they have a gene. nuf said

Answer 4

As an overweight, bald, old geeser (not obese yet, but it's a heck of a fight) -- unless stated in a mean spirited manner, I take no offense in most of these questions. I CAN pass them by and not answer if I'm so inclined. However, I don't take myself overly serious and quote me any humor that doesn't involve laughing at someone (usually our selves) in a nature not intended to offend. I see many comments for various states of the human body, upkeep , habits and the like -- a lot of these questions are sincere questions that really should be answered sincerely or left alone. It wouldn't hurt if we all toughened our skin a little and not be so vulnerable.

Answer 5

I really don't want to be perfect I'm just a person trying to live one day at a time.I know I'm never going to be political correct in a lot of peoples eyes, After 60 years not much will change me or how I view others

Answer 6

Wally's and Princepessa's responses sum it all up for me.

Yes, unfortunately there are those few who have a physiological cause for being grossly overweight, and for them I have great compassion. BUT for the majority, it IS a choice - I can say so, because I was overweight from my late 40's until 4 years ago. I was then diagnosed with diabetesII and because I did not want to die an early death nor be beset with the side effects of the disease I took off the weight and now am back to my original weight. It took lifestyle and dietary changes and now those changes are new habits!

Obesity in this country is an epidemic and driving up costs of many things not to mention endangering the health of those who are obese.

Again, some seem to choose being politically correct or 'excuses' against recognizing there is an elephant in the room [no pun intended].....screaming to be acknowledged rather than swept underneath the proverbial rug for fear of hurting someone feelings.

Answer 7

I just don't know why the world in general feels they have the right to judge others on looks alone. We cant possibly know the hardships of others or why they are the way they are. There are many medical reasons that will cause a person to be overweight and its no laughing matter. Thank you for an excellent observation and question.

Answer 8

well to make fun of a handicapped person (that word itself prob isnt politically correct) is not politically correct. I dont know if you are saying to over weight is politically incorrect, so its acceptable to make fun of someone who aren't rail-thin, but I dont think that really is any different than before political correctness came to light.

Answer 9

I'm overweight, because of meds that I take for my disease. I would like to still be slim and trim and concidered very attractive, But given a choice, I'll take my health and feeling up to enjoying life. The moral of this story "don't make judgements" because you never know the reason for what you percieve as someone's shortcomings.

Answer 10

A person in a wheelchair cannot be pooled with an obese person. They cannot stand up and walk to change their life while the former CAN do something to change and become healthy.

I have friends who are both. I accept them for who they are, not for what I would like them to be. I know that my friend with the broken back will never walk again but I know that my overweight friends can (if they choose) can change.

I, also, am a relatively thin kinds guy... 5'7" , 175# but sometimes, I feel myself puttin' on some ponds as my pants get a little tighter. Instead of buying new clothes, I quit with the sweets and eat more celery.

I have heart disease in my genes as well as diabetes and try as much as I can to avert these problems in my life. Nobody is making fun of these problems as much as trying to make everyone aware of what they are doing to their bodies and what they can do to change. Nobody can do this except ourselves.

I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways
Michael Jackson