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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This is the result of the Self Esteem Movement.
The “Charlatan?” - “a person who pretends to knowledge or skill; quack” according to my dictionary - no even a college could be stupid enough to fall into that one - or could it?.....
[[University removes weight scales from the gym because they’re ‘triggering’ students]]
The correct answer to all these ‘triggered students’ is “Get the hell out my school you damned pansies!”
She is at a normal weight - always was except when she was starving herself. It was sad to see all these girls (almost all of them girls) that were so skinny but STILL had a body image issue.
Several of the girls she was there with are still in the program, with some doing worse. One gal is now in a hospital bed connected to IV a year later. I can't imagine going through all of that for that long.
An eating disorder is a mental problem, and is bigger than a bathroom scale or a mirror. Although both can inhibit recovery. My daughter removed the dressing mirror she had in her room and we hid the bathroom scale. The doctor weighs her facing away from the scale. I suppose my daughter could find a scale elsewhere if she really wanted to (at school, a friend's house, etc.). Pretty sure she doesn't want to - but mom is always concerned that she will go back to not eating. Who knows - but things are good now.
She became anorexic in junior high with the school pushing obama’s ‘eat healthy and get fit’ crap. We mentioned that to the counselors and they said “Oh - we know! Some of these kids can't handle it. We are trying to work with the schools on how to deal with it better, look for clues with each student (they are there) and what type of health program will work with them. We have one school that has been very successful in recognizing the personalities that will lead to eating issues, and they get them out of those classes.” So stuff like that, and just general education and awareness will be better for everyone than just removing the bathroom scales!
Snowflakes and a blizzard
These people are quite literally insane and ought to be locked up for they're own good.
You are right. Anorexia, like Alcoholism is a mental problem. Anorexia can have severe physical health problems, but curing the physical health problems does not cure the disease. It just repairs some of the damage the disease is creating.
Anorexia is not a food or weight problem, no more more than Alcoholism is an alcohol problem. Alcohol, like weapons, is no problem when sitting on a shelf. People are the problem.
Congratulations to your daughter for her recovery. It required a number of hard-to-accomplish things.
#1; Admitting she had a problem
#2, More importantly, admitting it wasn’t a “food” problem or a “stomach” problem. Why is it we are all so foolish to be willing to admit health problems anywhere in the body, as long as it is not above and behind the sinuses?
#3, Not allowing her sickness to have any “rewards.” We have a niece with a Master’s in Nursing who loves the pity and avoidance of responsibility her eating disorder gives her.
Glad you have your daughter back. I’m sure it was a whole family accomplishment.
Thank you - it was the entire family. I got a great present from her for Christmas this last year, a book with empty pages with little prompts, and then she would fill in the prompts.
The most important one was her thanking me for making it to every one of her 3x a week family meeting and dinner when she was in (6 months????).
Quite the change from the first one I went to. “Why do either of you have to come - especially Dad! He doesn’t care what I eat - he’s not the one cooking. Dad could care less!!! Just STAY HOME - I don’t want you there! I HATE you!!!” Man those were nasty days! Now she’ll walk by and give me a hug for no reason!
Well...really they should just close the gym. Knowing it’s there, with all those weights and treadmills is probably very triggering. In fact, fit students should probably be force-fed lard for the benefit of the snowflakes. When did college kids turn into such a pack of pussies? I was kind of a quiet bookworm back in the day, but I was Rambo compared to this crowd.
This is really bizarre. In 1965 in High School football we weighed in. We were delighted when we weighed in more than last time. We had little fat and each additional pound was muscle to be used on the football field. If it was fat, coach Hillman would sure as hell take it off of us with wind sprints and other hell he would demand. Coach Hillman was a good man.
On behalf of the verbally-challenged fishes with scales, re this issue and Samir El Faki (or Sam’s a faker), F.O.
Leave our scales alone.
If you look like a pig, stop your lousy eating habits and/or get medical help.
Scales are good things so leave them alone. It is people who mess up our world, throw trash, crap and chemicals into out waters, and some idiot is worried about “scales”.
We worry about our scales Fakir because they protect us. Stop your ‘Fake’ scales complaints and get a life.
Sincerely,
The World Society of Scaled Fishes
For their own good their ideal should be Trigglypuff.
I like the one that displays, “One at a time, please!”.
Maybe if those phat phugs would put down the video games and Cheetos and go outside and do something, they wouldn’t have this problem.
We are raising an entire generation of snowflakes who will need decades of psychotherapy to cope with even the most trivial aspects of living. To think that at the same age their grandfathers were storming the beaches at Normandy under a hail of gunfire and fighting to the death with Japanese fanatics in the Pacific.
Wow, you really can’t make this stuff up.... did they at least try a safe space first? :P
I’m surprised the coaches are allowing the removal of the scales.
I know a gal who had to check in on the scale - naked - every day under the watchful eye of her coach and her partner. The entire team had to check in every day and be weighed in naked. hmmm...
Faki? The Charlatan? Indeed.
“These are people who will be singularly unsuited for the real world when things get a little tough.”
And who among them is even REMOTELY qualified to hold high elective office, much less the Presidency??? Imagine Governor Snowflake, “Oh NO, a HURRICANE is coming! I can’t DEAL with this! PLEASE take me to my safe space!!!”
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