Posted on 10/03/2014 10:29:24 AM PDT by BJ1
Search for the word “fat” on Twitter and you’ll likely find a torrent of criticisms, insults, and jokes at overweight people’s expense. Now researchers have undertaken such an experiment in a much more systematic way, across a variety of platforms — and what they’ve found may give the public health community a look at the reality of being overweight online.
(Excerpt) Read more at op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com ...
The one thing that the article does not mention is the way liberals associate fatness with conservative middle America. They are constantly sneering at “fat” Red State yahoos. They are the ones who started calling attention to fat shoppers at Walmart and ridiculing them. Any time you see some Lib cartoon attacking conservatives, they almost always depict the conservative as a fat, ignorant, Southern redneck. In the minds of liberals, “fat” goes hand in hand with stupid and conservative. That is why there is such hatred and why it is as accepted as it is.
So fat people have thin skin?
Poor doggie.
“a look at the reality of being overweight online.”
As opposed to being overweight offline?
Remember, no one’s fat at an online dating sight. Some are merely “Ruebenesque”.
Wow, this article is backwards:
“Ms. Chou noted that psychological research has documented the ill effects of weight stigma”
Ms. Chou, whatever those effects are, they pale in comparison to the ill effects of being overweight! “Weight stigma”, as you call it, is a healthy societal shaming mechanism that is intended to motivate people to both lead a healthier lifestyle and be better contributors to society.
Some take it too far, no doubt, but if we rid ourselves of it entirely, we would be doing fat people no favors.
I will be the one contrasting what actually happened in the world with what the Bible says: The Arabs named the stars, not God....However they ignore 95% of 75% of their base voters.
Well, the “ruebenesque” ones probably have a college degree, or at least own a thesaurus. Most are “full figured” or “curvy” or “big & beautiful”.
I don’t know if there is some scale that you can use to interpret those in a meaningful way, or if they are all equivalent. Actually, come to think of it, I am not really interested in finding out!
I will be the one contrasting what actually happened in the world with what the Bible says: The Arabs named the stars, not God....However they ignore 95% of 75% of their base voters.
You see: Any size shorts can fit because they squeeze the fat out of the way.
After 20 years of working in a prison, I am immune to name-calling. I am overweight, and that’s usually what the convicts go for first (because, of course, they’re idiots). I usually follow up the insult by saying “yep, fat but free!” or “I’ll be thinking real hard about your insult when I get HOME and open that BEER” or “pfft, amateur!” and walk away smiling. My fellow officers ask me why I don’t write the convicts up. It’s simple: every convict I’ve ever met would rather let me get in a “free shot” than deal with tickets, which take away privileges and affects their paroles. So it’s a big game really. The few times when I’ve run into people insulting me in the real world I’ve done something similar, and the insulter has walked away, baffled. People (especially liberals) are so thin skinned these days.
CC
That creature has only itself to blame ...
>> How would anyone know your weight unless you tell them?
They see a picture of you on Facebook putting away fried chicken?
I’m in shape. Round is a shape.
Them there posters is funny. Especially the “it’s the law” one.
I must say, I’ve never seen Daisy Dukes look like a tourniquet before.
I wonder what’s wrong with your looks since you get so easily disgusted by other people’s physical faults. Of course, I found your post quite unattractive for starters...
Her shorts are about to burst.
One thing I don't need is to have the insults classified as hate speech. Why would I need “government” to label those insults as hate speech and make them a crime?
We have become a nation of whiney wusses looking to government for protection.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.