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The Racial Origins of Fat Stigma
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Posted on 08/22/2020 9:42:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Personal preference: I don’t like anorexic looking women. A few extra pounds don’t bother me. Obesity does.
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posted on
08/22/2020 9:47:21 PM PDT
by
dixie1202
To: nickcarraway
This story contains one of the longest 'therefore's' in the history of logic:
"Therefore, they decided to re-articulate racial categories, adding new characteristics, and one of the things that the colonists believed was that Black people were inherently more sensuous, that people love sex and they love food, and so the idea was that Black people had more venereal diseases, and that Black people were inherently obese, because they lack self-control. And of course, self-control and rationality, after the Enlightenment, were characteristics that were deemed integral to Whiteness."
Yeah ... don't think so.
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posted on
08/22/2020 9:47:45 PM PDT
by
tinyowl
(A is A)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/22/2020 9:54:44 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: nickcarraway
Sheer lunacy. Intended to please those that CBS’s advertisers want pleased.
What a media!
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posted on
08/22/2020 9:56:50 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(`(US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
I thought Bill Maher was the origin of fat-shaming.
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posted on
08/22/2020 9:58:02 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: nickcarraway
This is utter nonsense. Cheap, fattening foods have added guts to people. By-products of success.
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posted on
08/22/2020 9:58:20 PM PDT
by
wac3rd
(Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
To: nickcarraway
Fine.
Let black women continue to have sh*tty diets, eat too much, not exercise. Let them lumber around, 30 percent plus overweight, with all the health problems caused by obesity.
I just dont care anymore.
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posted on
08/22/2020 10:06:03 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: dixie1202
The qualities we perceive as adding up as “beauty” are indicators of health. Men are designed to be attracted to healthy, physically fit women in their prime years of fertility.
Neither the anorexic nor the obese are healthy. A woman needs a certain minimum body fat percentage in order to conceive and bear a child. Too much fat is unhealthy too. There is an optimum level.
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posted on
08/22/2020 10:08:57 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
To: nickcarraway
Abolitionists were white, protestants too.
Shed a lot of blood to help blacks.
You last heard the gratitude for that when?
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posted on
08/22/2020 10:10:13 PM PDT
by
truth_seeker
( ^^\/**|_|**\/ ^^^^)
To: nickcarraway
"Why are White women on diets"
Because white men do not like sweaty fat chicks?
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posted on
08/22/2020 10:10:58 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/22/2020 10:13:05 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
To: nickcarraway
Reubens and the guys back then saw fat chicks as a social success statement:
They had the wherewithal to feed the porker as much as she wanted.
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posted on
08/22/2020 10:13:31 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
To: truth_seeker
True, but then again, the abolitionists were not doing it for gratitude either, but for their deeply held beliefs.
To: nickcarraway
Nothing to do with blacks. People have been making fun of fat people of all colors for centuries. They even made the death of Cass Elliot a joke by lying and saying she chocked to death on a sandwich. She actually died of a heart attack.
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posted on
08/22/2020 10:27:59 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: nickcarraway
Utter nonsense. Being severely obese is deadly
As to So Cal need to fit an image that aint about color its about stupidity and pill pushing doctors
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posted on
08/22/2020 10:43:24 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/22/2020 10:46:20 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
To: nickcarraway
As the art and fashion historian Anne Hollander wrote in a New York Times article from 1977, "The look of actual human bodies obviously changes very little through history. But the look of ideal bodies changes a great deal all the time."I challenge Ms. Hollander to view a photograph of any typical street scene in the America of 1977, and compare it with one of 2020 - with regards to the body type / "heaviness" of the pedestrians. The contrast is stunning.
Here in Germany, I can spot fellow Americans a quarter of a mile away on the street - because of their high Body-Mass Index.
Regards,
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posted on
08/22/2020 11:10:46 PM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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