Posted on 06/15/2023 5:38:08 PM PDT by simpson96
Victoria Abraham graduated from New York University last year, ready to enter the job market. She is a self-proclaimed “fat activist” who has found her voice as a content creator online, but has concerns about applying for new job.
“Walking into a job interview as a fat person, I’m already at a disadvantage,” said Victoria Abraham. “I know that whatever my qualifications are, my weight is a con.”
But on Thursday, the New York City council passed a bill that would make it illegal to discriminate against height and weight in housing, employment, and public accommodations.
“I know that at least when I get a job, if I’m experiencing this discrimination, I have someone supporting me. I have the support of the government; I have legal protection where there wasn’t any before,” said Abraham.
Only six other cities and one state have similar laws protecting Americans against height and weight discrimination: Binghamton, New York; Madison, Wisconsin; Urbana, Illinois; Washington, DC; San Francisco and Santa Cruz, California; and Michigan.
Weight discrimination is widespread, but hits women the hardest – particularly women of color.
Women considered obese earned $5.25 less per hour than women considered normal weight, according to a Vanderbilt University study. Discrimination based on weight is also comparable to the levels of racial discrimination in the United States, according to the American Journal of Public Health.
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The cities listed are extreme marxist commie enclaves, fyi.
They arent blaming you for them being fat.
They are blaming you for their perception that you are not accomodating them.
The easy answer is that: nothing is built for general public use today for body styles 2 or 3 (or more) standard deviations from what is defined as a normal healthy weight/body style. Unless it is specifically sized for it, like clothes. And then you pay more for it to be that way.
Imagine that coming to rescue you in a fire!
When she sits around the house she really sits around the house.
So does this apply to the NYPD and NYFD?
Holy sh^t far women are going to go ape with this.
Funny how the Democrats are total nazis about smoking but then turn around and promote obesity.
Seriously ?!? Is there anything these days that DOESN'T hit women/women of color the hardest ??!?
How come the fashion industry can’t hire fat chicks????? Look out for 300 pound stews on airplane flights.... How many can they fit onboard before the plane goes down????
Reality series....FAT COPS....Watch crime go through the roof....
I can't wait for elevators to plunge, skywalks to collapse, airplanes to crash, ferries to sink, because they weren't allowed to compensate for the weight of the snowflake passengers.
-PJ
Who will get sued when these porkers die early? You know, because of “discriminatory and unequal health outcomes?”
Perhaps airline tickets should be sold based on weight.
Everyone treated equally. Just “X” dollars per pound. Same as freight. Seriously, we no longer in general fit standard models for human weight as size. Need a new approach on apply fair standards to everyone.
Critical fat theory. Clown world.
AH BUT “Qualifications Discrimination” is just A-OK huh? People unfit for a job’s requirements are declaring that it is not ok to not hire them anyways- so they are discriminating against job requirements
IF a person can’t do a job, then be a grown up and admit it and stop forcing people to lower their standards in order to placate your lifestyle choices- Doing so will in some cases cost lives because the unhealthy person isn’t physically capable of handling jobs that are above their physical capabilities-
Sturgeon's Law states that "ninety percent of everything is crap", which certainly applies to fashion. Like Hollywood, New York City's fashion industry constantly throws tons of crap on the wall to see what sticks, in a desperate attempt to find the 10% that will sell and pay all their bills.
Conservatives love to blame various industries for America's cultural decline, but here's a different take: these industries are doing what they've always done to survive. It's the idiot customers that are really to blame for what sticks. While it won't win over the other side, conservatives might put blame squarely on where it belongs: the millions of customers of crap. The problem isn't the gun, it's the people pulling the trigger.
Somehow, that descriptor just doesn't seem right.
Snowflakes are light and downy.
How about "Texas-sized asteroid passengers?"
Regards,
How about instead seeking out jobs for which they are, in contrast, particularly well-suited?
Mooring zeppelins, counterbalancing skyscrapers, snuffing out burning oil derricks, and such?
Regards,
Add one more group to the growing number of the “oppressed” eligible for protected class status. “Abnormal is the new Normal.”
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