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University removes weight scales from the gym because they’re ‘triggering’ students
Bizpac Review ^ | March 13, 2017 | Michael Dorstewitz

Posted on 03/13/2017 7:14:11 PM PDT by kevcol

First year student Samar El Faki provided some insight. She told The Charlatan, the university newspaper, that removing the scales was a good idea because it would accommodate students with eating disorders.

“Scales are very triggering,” she said. “I think people are being insensitive because they simply don’t understand. They think eating disorders are a choice when they are actually a serious illness.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: overweight; snowflakes; triggered; universities
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Add scales to the list of inanimate objects that are racist/judgemental/sexist etc...
1 posted on 03/13/2017 7:14:11 PM PDT by kevcol
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2 posted on 03/13/2017 7:15:06 PM PDT by kevcol
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Funny


3 posted on 03/13/2017 7:15:37 PM PDT by ptsal
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If a student is capable of being “triggered”, that student is most certainly NOT a candidate for any real university degree.

PERIOD.

But, of course, few degrees offered by universities these days are real degrees.


4 posted on 03/13/2017 7:16:39 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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they eat the scales ?


5 posted on 03/13/2017 7:17:17 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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The “Charlatan”, is the university newspaper?

In what careers do they offer degrees?


6 posted on 03/13/2017 7:18:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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Well, maybe they should just raze the entire university. It’s presence could trigger feelings of envy and inferiority, feelings of being excluded, in those who were unable to attend a university, for whatever reason.


7 posted on 03/13/2017 7:20:38 PM PDT by Will88
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Maybe they should remove the disruptive students instead.


8 posted on 03/13/2017 7:21:43 PM PDT by Trillian
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This is the end, my friend.


9 posted on 03/13/2017 7:22:33 PM PDT by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect)
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Yeah well, I tossed out the computerized scale when the LED display read “one at a time, please”.


10 posted on 03/13/2017 7:24:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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BS.


11 posted on 03/13/2017 7:25:05 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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First year student Samar El Faki said, “Weight scales are very triggering,”

Shut up, Somehow All Fatti.

12 posted on 03/13/2017 7:25:52 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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Wait, yeah, I been got. This is fake news. “The Charlaton”? A a student named El Faki?


13 posted on 03/13/2017 7:27:18 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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Their Donald Duck School of Quackery is among the best in the world.


14 posted on 03/13/2017 7:32:09 PM PDT by MountainWalker
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Let me make sure I get this right....

Students with “eating disorders” (probably fatties) who, on advice of their physicians should monitor their weight, want to remove the ability of all students to monitor their weights.

Zat habout gud hit?

Under this logic, we should never take any medications prescribed for any medical disorder, because we might worry about the effects of the disease... and heaven forbid wearing seatbelts in a car, because can you imagine how hard it would be to drive being constantly reminded by the seatbelt that we could be injured in a crash?


15 posted on 03/13/2017 7:35:45 PM PDT by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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We used to speak of an extended adolescence. Now it's an extended pre-adolescence where college students throw temper tantrums, kicking and screaming on the floor and their adult supervision rushes to appease them by giving them their way.

These are people who will be singularly unsuited for the real world when things get a little tough. You want to know something else that's "triggering"? Bill collectors. Good luck with your tantrums when they come calling.

16 posted on 03/13/2017 7:38:33 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
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Facts. People have to deal with what is demonstrably true and based on observations that can be duplicated. That’s how you deal with the real world and this nonsense that these “butterflies” are being fed and motivated with will eventually destroy them.


17 posted on 03/13/2017 7:43:35 PM PDT by JimSEA
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Imagine the horror if you pulled out a mirror and showed them what they look like.


18 posted on 03/13/2017 7:59:15 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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19 posted on 03/13/2017 8:31:12 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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Better remove the mirrors too...then their shadows....

What has the world become?

20 posted on 03/13/2017 8:33:27 PM PDT by blam
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