WOW!!!
Sumo’s beware.
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does Japan have socialized medicine? this is is the only reason I could see that the government would care what people’s waistlines are and whether they are a candidate for diabetes. If my government ever told me I had to be a certain weight or have a certain waistline, I would tell them to take a hike.
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Umm….damn.
The first part of that article, I liked. Encouraging people to get healthier by having the government help them with dieting choices and exercising, it’s a sound and decent idea.
But then I read the “will financially penalize organizations and local governments” part.
Just…damn.
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They do, and that’s pretty much why (not that it’s really a good excuse…). 
And you thought the fat “police” were bad here.
Now, I hate fat people and really think of them as utterly second class citizens. Therefore, I think it’s great to see a government taking a stand. However, setting an arbitrary waist size limit is ridiculous: I have mates who are in no way fat, but are very muscular, whose waist sizes far exceed 34".
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Yeah… though the Japanese waist size, on average, -is- significantly smaller… but they also have foreigners who live there… weird. >_>
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I sure am glad that you aren’t judgmental about people before you know anything about them. After all no fat people ever accomplished anything. :roll: So of course it is alright to hate them all with out even seeing what they know or what they do, or why they are fat.
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my waist size is between 42" and 44" (probably closer to 44) and there is no way I could get down to 34 again. The last time I had a waist that small I was in my twenties. I am in my fifties now.
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I sure am glad that you aren’t judgmental about people before you know anything about them. After all no fat people ever accomplished anything. :roll: So of course it is alright to hate them all with out even seeing what they know or what they do, or why they are fat.[/quote]
And I’m sure that being fat was crucial to that accomplishment.
And I’m sure that being fat is in no way antisocial and unpleasant.
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I sure am glad that you aren’t judgmental about people before you know anything about them. After all no fat people ever accomplished anything. :roll: So of course it is alright to hate them all with out even seeing what they know or what they do, or why they are fat.[/quote]
And I’m sure that being fat was crucial to that accomplishment.[/quote]
It wasn’t, but it also didn’t prevent them from accomplishing what they did.
And I’m sure that being fat is in no way antisocial and unpleasant.
Most of the fat people I know are much more social and pleasant than you come across as. They are friendly and outgoing people, perhaps if you would actually meet and talk with them you would find this out, instead of relying on stereotypical TV treatments of them.
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I mean it is antisocial to be fat and thus fat people are antisocial, rather than making a judgment about whether they’re friendly. I mean antisocial like loud noise is antisocial. Like being forced to crowd next to a revolting, sweaty, panting, stinking obese man on public transport. Or having to watch a flabby face focus intently on a forkful of food, eyes made small in comparison the enormous flesh surrounding them, before cramming it into a desperate mouth. Or having to deal with the wining about the misery of their weight. Or yes, just having to look at them.
Likewise, by unpleasant, I meant nothing more than physically repellent.
Don’t get me wrong, I know perfectly nice fat people, but I’m never going to be able to get over the utter revulsion that I feel at their repulsive, self-indulgent, excessive obesity.
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I put forth that the problem is yours, not theirs. You are focusing on what you see as faults, not at the people for who they are themselves.
I would also note, that your words and descriptions are about the most stereotypical I have ever seen anyone use to describe a group of people. It is almost to the point where I would wonder if you have actually ever interacted with a fat person.
Is being forced next to a revolting, sweaty, panting, stinking skinny person any more pleasant?
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I would never suggest killing them, but to point out the difference; fat is a choice.
Val: you can’t honestly believe that I’ve never interacted with a fat person? Those stereotypes are true! Fat people smell in summer! They block pavements. They spill over your narrow seat in the cinema. They squash up against you like soggy sponge rubber at gigs, on trains, in buses. Urgh.
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not everyone that is fat is fat by choice. Their Metabolism could be messed up. there are other reasons as well.
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Smelling in the summer is a bathing problem, not a fat problem.
To be honest, I don’t believe that you have ever interacted with a fat person, or at least not more than one or two. I’ve known lots of fat people, and have had none of the problems you mention. Perhaps you should get to know these people.
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I hate stereotypes about fat people. My boyfriend is fat and he isn’t smelly nor lazy. He has lost weight since I have met him. Anyone who wishes to put down fat people, you are insulting my boyfriend and I don’t like it. :evil: I wouldn’t have a problem chewing those people out badly.
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@Spokane, putting down fat people is nowhere near insulting your boyfriend.
Think of it this way, if we stereotype fat people, then to you we are only talking about the stereotypical fat people and thus any shot we take at fat people that doesn’t apply to your boyfriend is therefore null.
For instance, if I said “A lot of fat people die from heart attacks.” This is a stereotype. Is your boyfriend dead from a heart attack? If not, then this doesn’t apply to you or him, therefore you can easily just ignore the people saying it. You already know the stereotype and to some sense, it’s true, but realistically you have no reason to chew people out as this hasn’t applied to your boyfriend.
Now, the same thing applies to a stereotype meant to offend someone. Fat people are lazy, for example, is a stereotype you can ignore if your boyfriend isn’t lazy. Neither the person who said the stereotype nor you are wrong in this situation, as it’s just that, a stereotype, and it does not apply to everyone. But it’s also true for saying it as there are a lot of fat people who experience a lot of fatigue just from being big, it makes logical sense.
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Well, I think we could concede that, if you concede that the persons who perpetuate stereotypes often sound like jackasses to people both close and distant to the issues expressed with such statements.
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Well my boyfriend is fat so therefore I am sensitive when it comes to hearing bashing about fat people. It would be like hearing someone saying “adult babies are pedophiles.” (I know lot of us have heard that comment before) That remark offends lot of us because they are saying we are pedophiles but if they said “Some adult babies are pedophiles,” then lot of us might be okay by that. I know I would because they be only implying to those adult babies because they did say ‘some.’ But saying adult babies are pedos instead of “some adult babies” is implying to them all.
So same as saying “Some fat people are lazy and smelly,” I will be okay by that because they are implying to those fat people, but saying ‘fat people’ instead of “some fat people” is implying to them all so therefore they are saying that about my boyfriend too. If he is thin, then they won’t be implying to him.
You said “A lot of fat people” so no that would no imply to him but if you said “fat people die from heart attacks” then yes you are implying to him too.
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There are skinny, lazy, smelly people too. Give us… I mean them their due!