Posted on 11/26/2024 6:47:15 AM PST by TigerClaws
We all know that a lot of nonsense courses at American colleges are stuffed with pork ... but now that's literally true, because the University of Maryland is offering a spring semester course on "fat studies."
"Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness and their Intersections" is taught by Dr. Sydney Lewis, and is advertised as follows:
The course examines fatness as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and ability. This course will particularly highlight the relationship between fatness and Blackness. We approach this area of study through an interdisciplinary humanities and social-science lens which emphasizes fatness as a social justice issue. The course closes with an examination of fat liberation as liberation for all bodies with a particular emphasis on performing arts and activism as a vehicle for liberation and challenging fatmisia.
FYI: Fatmisia is a term that relates to the hatred of fatness.
This read to me like someone took every woke word in the woke dictionary and just printed them in random order.
Lewis is a senior lecturer at the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and students who enroll in her course will earn three general education credits.
Richard Vatz, a professor at a nearby university, said this area of study was "kind of a laughable, laughable subject" and "just ludicrous."
Pretty fatphobic there, Rich.
I don't think if you went into a job interview and the interviewer said 'what have you taken recently?' and the respondent said 'well, I'm taking a course in fat studies, but the intersection of a blackness and fatness,' that this would put you in a position to get much of a job, so the utility of this and the job market is probably pretty questionable
No wonder President Trump received 25% of the black male vote!
Will they hold the class in the cafeteria?
I’m waiting for the second year course...plump breasts.
Lab exercises to be held at Walmart.
They can have mine.......................
Get an MS in Booty Studies.
The Cows on the show “The View” as exhibit 1?
Hey, hey, hey. This is the stupidest thing I've heard all day.
It’s a “Self Study” course.
Remember the old Cheech & Chong comedy line..
“Mexican Americans, they go to night school, and take Spanish, and get a “B”.”
Dang, I was just looking for that!
Is Lizzo part of this course?
More importantly, 30 percent of under 30s.
But this is a tough day for me.
I’m fat but I didn’t know I was black until this article.
Not that I mind being black now, but it’s kinda a big change this late in life.
Does this class have a lab? I think fattening food needs to be properly evaluated here…..
For the curious: https://wgss.umd.edu/directory/sydney-lewis
LOL!
Prince George's County abounds with examples of fatness and blackness intersecting in one body ... the students will have no trouble carrying out Case Studies ... Data for statistical analysis will not be difficult to find either.
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