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Inflicting white neuroses on nonwhite women
Los Angeles Times ^ | September 21, 2007 | Paul F. Campos

Posted on 09/21/2007 9:49:40 PM PDT by jwalburg

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Hello, Chicken Nuggets!
1 posted on 09/21/2007 9:49:43 PM PDT by jwalburg
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To: jwalburg

I associate fatness with a sedentary lifestyle and too much emphasis on food.

I don’t think of it as black/white, rich/poor - just a choice of lifestyle.

Guess I’m odd.


2 posted on 09/21/2007 9:53:07 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
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To: jwalburg

This article is stupid to the point of being insulting.


3 posted on 09/21/2007 9:54:10 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: Mr Rogers

“I associate fatness with a sedentary lifestyle and too much emphasis on food.

I don’t think of it as black/white, rich/poor - just a choice of lifestyle.

Guess I’m odd.”

Same here!


4 posted on 09/21/2007 9:54:48 PM PDT by Califreak (Go Hunter!)
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To: jwalburg
Americans are obsessed with fat because fatness has become a symbol for poverty, downward mobility, nonwhiteness and socially marginal status in general.

No, fatness is a symbol of low or no self-esteem, no motivation, and no self-control. There's a fairly simple solution: eat less and exercise more. And no one can convince me that a bag of apples (or whatever fruit is in season) costs more than a box of sugary and fat-laden candy bars (and I loooooove chocolate).

5 posted on 09/21/2007 9:58:44 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: Califreak

BTW - I’ve gone to professional meetings where wealthy white male engineers had to sit with their legs spread so their bellies could hang between them. Too much time behind a desk. Too many donuts at the meetings. It had nothing to do with poverty or race.


6 posted on 09/21/2007 9:59:33 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
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To: hsalaw

That’s the Mike Huckabee diet, I understand. Eat an apple every day.


7 posted on 09/21/2007 10:00:01 PM PDT by jwalburg (Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. What does that say about schools?)
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To: jwalburg

I want to scream.

IF YOU HAVE TOO MUCH CHEAP FOOD, YOU ARE BY DEFINITION NOT POOR.

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG


8 posted on 09/21/2007 10:00:41 PM PDT by redpoll (redpoll)
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To: jwalburg

I work at a Fortune 500 company. I realized the other day that all the more elite women were in really good shape while the lower level women in general are not in such great shape.

Fact of life, image counts.


9 posted on 09/21/2007 10:01:08 PM PDT by Aria (NO RAPIST ENABLER FOR PRESIDENT!!!)
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Aren’t we supposed to move beyond race at some point? What does race have to do with being overweight?


10 posted on 09/21/2007 10:02:08 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Rembrandt
Pretty much.

The fundamental strategy of the war on fat is to universalize the attitudes of middle- and upper-class white American women toward weight, food, dieting and exercise. Such women are taught from a very early age to hate their bodies.

That must be it. If you want to diet and keep healthy, it's got to be that you hate your body.

11 posted on 09/21/2007 10:02:22 PM PDT by jwalburg (Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. What does that say about schools?)
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The real travesty is that they actually pay people to think and write like this?


12 posted on 09/21/2007 10:02:42 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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So “Fat” is now considered a race? Huh? Or were the authors saying it’s OK for minority women to be fat? I’m confused.


13 posted on 09/21/2007 10:02:54 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: jwalburg

The author can kiss my skinny Latina butt.


14 posted on 09/21/2007 10:03:23 PM PDT by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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Inflicting white neuroses on nonwhite women

Better than inflicting nonwhite neurosis on white chicks. I'm getting real tired of hearing pale yuppie chicks calling each other "sistah" and yelling "You go, girl!"

It's just plain goofy, is what it is.

15 posted on 09/21/2007 10:04:34 PM PDT by JennysCool (Don't taze me, Bro!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Well, it shouldn't make a difference to Martin Luther King's color blind society, but the article above this one has these figures:

It is a mistake to think that obesity is a problem only in certain social or racial groups. It is rampant in all races, in both genders, and across all ages. It would be (sic) mistake as well to believe that race and social class do not matter. The prevalence of significant obesity (body mass index over 30) in the U.S. population is 29% for Caucasians, 34% for Hispanics and 40% for African Americans. Fully 78% of African American females are overweight or obese.

78 percent is a HUGH figure. How can this be?

16 posted on 09/21/2007 10:05:21 PM PDT by jwalburg (Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. What does that say about schools?)
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To: Mr Rogers

i think it is more of a class issue

no doubt poorer folks are fatter

which seems like a paradox eh?


17 posted on 09/21/2007 10:06:32 PM PDT by wardaddy (if God is your co-pilot, you need to switch seats)
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To: jwalburg
Well.. then who is responsible for white women injecting collagen into their lips?

18 posted on 09/21/2007 10:08:30 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Mr Rogers

I’ve seen many fat, white professional women as well.

They are usually the worst dit shisturbers in the crew.


19 posted on 09/21/2007 10:09:06 PM PDT by Califreak (Go Hunter!)
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To: Rembrandt
This article is stupid to the point of being insulting.

The article is in the LA Times. If your IQ is greater than your shoe size, of course it's going to be insulting.

Mark

20 posted on 09/21/2007 10:10:15 PM PDT by MarkL (Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
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