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JULY 21, 2009 11:22AM
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yes, my bona fides are weighty. I have a genius grant. you?
If our tooth doctor gets one more cavity I will have to fire him as well, because who wants a dentist with decayed teeth?
I wonder now if I have to pink-slip my cardiologist because she just had a pacemaker installed? Oh dear, my hair colorist too. He shaved his head because he didn't like his last color (code for he fried his hair).
While we are at it, the Senate should prolong the hearings for Sotomayer, because someone needs to break it to her that she is just a little tiny bit zaftig. Perhaps the sensitive guy, Senator Schumer? I don't know if we can confirm her to SCOTUS with that problem. After all, it is a lifetime appointment and well, her lifetime could be cut short by the those 20 extra pounds. What? She works out and is healthy, aside from a small case of diabetes? So what? Zaftig is zaftig. What kind of role model is that?
C. Everett Koop. Anyone remember the rotund guy with the Col. Sanders beard? He apparently liked fried chicken a little too much. Wait. A tubby male Surgeon General? I suppose that was ok because it happened in the dark
Koop & the Colonel, separated at birth
And, alas, Governator Ahnld has put on the weight since he took that thankless job. No one wants a terminator with a flabby belly. That is just plain wrong, and gives bots a bad rap.The fat police should just remand them all to
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Perhaps the whole issue speaks to the shifting views of Americans on weight and health-care costs.... We're in the midst of that shift now - and half the nation (including myself, needing more fitness) is on the "wrong" side of the debate. So we can relate. Regardless, if she's qualified, she's qualified. Someone said a while back that "weight is the last discrimination." We'll see.
You do have a point, most of our so-called role models have a weight problem.....A Cardiologist who is 30 lb's overweight telling his/her patient that you need to loose 40-50 lbs or you will have another heart attack! Very hypocritical! Very hard for the paitents to swallow. The nurse enters the room to reenforce the doctors directions on loosing weight and eating healthy. Now keep in mind the nurse just put down her doughnut to go in and see the patient. The patient leaves crosseyed and even more confused.
I read about this yesterday and spent about a half hour sputtering at my computer screen. What does someone's own informed struggle with health have to do with their education and experience (i.e. credentials)? And overweight does not equal unhealthy. People were going on about BMI like it's the final word on who's a good person. BMI is a rough estimate of risk, not a tool for judgment. BMI is severely overused to tell people they're sick. And a number of genetic conditions can lead to weight gain and abdominal fat deposition. If anything, she is MORE qualified for being in her current health situation because she knows the system from both sides - doctor and patient. There are some out there who won't be happy until the whole world is anorexic and swallowing supplements - both of which lead to increased health care costs for heart problems, malnutrition, and poisoning...but everyone thinks their way is better. *rolls eyes*
Thanks for posting this, I couldn't get the words together.
Thanks for posting this, I couldn't get the words together.
Well said LuluandPhoebe!
I've spent my life trying to conquer my weight problem and have suceeded at various times and have to refight the battle again and again. Ask me anything! I've heard it all, studied it all, and am an expert. And I am still obese. Hurrah for a real person for SG!
Lisa - I agree. Qualified is qualified. And she sure has tons of energy and looks pretty healthy for a "fat" girl.
ZZ - humm....I wonder who the nurse is with the donut? Hehehe. But you are right. It is confusing, but mostly to people who don't actually know about these things.
Alicia - yeah, it made my head spin too. Luckily I had some duct tape and a yardstick handy to stop it from spinning every time I found another article! Seriously, who are these people? Glass houses and all that. The logic is naive at best and tragic at worst. When gyms started using BMI, scored by a $4 per hour person who has no education about what it really is, the whole mantra got scary. Now it is everywhere and not only used incorrectly, but dangerously so.
JustJuli - thank you and thanks for coming by.
ZZ - humm....I wonder who the nurse is with the donut? Hehehe. But you are right. It is confusing, but mostly to people who don't actually know about these things.
Alicia - yeah, it made my head spin too. Luckily I had some duct tape and a yardstick handy to stop it from spinning every time I found another article! Seriously, who are these people? Glass houses and all that. The logic is naive at best and tragic at worst. When gyms started using BMI, scored by a $4 per hour person who has no education about what it really is, the whole mantra got scary. Now it is everywhere and not only used incorrectly, but dangerously so.
JustJuli - thank you and thanks for coming by.
Thank you for posting this. I'm not going to sugar-coat it - nothing raises my ire like ignorant bigots pointing their fingers at someone who weighs more than the "acceptable limits for body weight" charts say we should. You know what? Screw those rickafrackin' charts.
The very act of discussing someone's weight as a factor in their qualification to do a job is just another way for a certain segment of the population to hold themselves up as being "better than" another segment. The media-brainwashed body elitists consider anyone who is carrying ANY extra poundage to be "less than" they are.
Fat people are causing the thin people to have to pay more for health care costs! Oh, no!
And every time the self-righteous thin person talks on their cell phone while driving, they cause all our car insurance rates to go up.
And every time the thin person writes a check that bounces, they cause all our banking fees to go up.
And every time the thin person doesn't tip a waiter, the waiter is then not making enough to buy things, so stores are closing due to falling profits and we're all being laid off our jobs.
But the people who are doing those things are thin, so that's okay!
As I said in a comment on another post that explored the fat-versus-thin question:
"Concerned about health, my ass. They're concerned because they had to actually LOOK at a fat person who crossed their path, and it damaged their poor weak little intolerant psyche. Then they need to call a wah-mbulance to come and fix their pretty world and make it all better."
Just my opinion.
The very act of discussing someone's weight as a factor in their qualification to do a job is just another way for a certain segment of the population to hold themselves up as being "better than" another segment. The media-brainwashed body elitists consider anyone who is carrying ANY extra poundage to be "less than" they are.
Fat people are causing the thin people to have to pay more for health care costs! Oh, no!
And every time the self-righteous thin person talks on their cell phone while driving, they cause all our car insurance rates to go up.
And every time the thin person writes a check that bounces, they cause all our banking fees to go up.
And every time the thin person doesn't tip a waiter, the waiter is then not making enough to buy things, so stores are closing due to falling profits and we're all being laid off our jobs.
But the people who are doing those things are thin, so that's okay!
As I said in a comment on another post that explored the fat-versus-thin question:
"Concerned about health, my ass. They're concerned because they had to actually LOOK at a fat person who crossed their path, and it damaged their poor weak little intolerant psyche. Then they need to call a wah-mbulance to come and fix their pretty world and make it all better."
Just my opinion.
I've been ranting on this topic for a while (see, for example, http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=4087). It really honks me that Hollywood and the Fashion World want lots of size zero women, rather than women who are shaped like--Heaven forbid!--women. You know: they go for the Kate Hudsons of the world instead of the Monica Belluccis.
I ask all you guys out there: from a sexist perspective, who makes you drool? Skinny Kate Hudson, or voluptuous Monica Bellucci? (Charlize Theron is really beautiful, but I'd much rather snuggle up to Kate Winslet, you know what I'm sayin'?)
And don't get me started on blondes. Enough with the blondes!
I ask all you guys out there: from a sexist perspective, who makes you drool? Skinny Kate Hudson, or voluptuous Monica Bellucci? (Charlize Theron is really beautiful, but I'd much rather snuggle up to Kate Winslet, you know what I'm sayin'?)
And don't get me started on blondes. Enough with the blondes!
Great post L&P. The SG's critics arguments carry no weight with me.
Call me paranoid, but...
I think this is a big PR scheme.
Appoint Benjamin; make a big deal about her weight then when she takes office she goes on a major weight loss kick which hopefully encourages the nation to lose weight.
It becomes a huge success; not because she was such a great role model, but because most Americans will be so unemployed and homeless that they will lose weight from starvation. An anorexic's dream.
I think this is a big PR scheme.
Appoint Benjamin; make a big deal about her weight then when she takes office she goes on a major weight loss kick which hopefully encourages the nation to lose weight.
It becomes a huge success; not because she was such a great role model, but because most Americans will be so unemployed and homeless that they will lose weight from starvation. An anorexic's dream.
She could probably lose those pounds if she'd start smoking.
Uk - people do seem to be caught up in that kind of discrimination. They are fairly short sighted though. Larger people can be way healthier than thinner folks based on their eating plan and exercise.
DM - yeah for curves!
Sheepy - very funny! that would have been a good headline.
Trudge - that certainly is one way to look at it.
Steve - I almost spit out my drink reading your comment. Your zingers are fabulous.
DM - yeah for curves!
Sheepy - very funny! that would have been a good headline.
Trudge - that certainly is one way to look at it.
Steve - I almost spit out my drink reading your comment. Your zingers are fabulous.
Everyone's supposed to be at the exact same point at the tip top of the bell curve. Or am I the one who doesn't understand statistics? (Hint: NO.)
Skip the duct tape and stick - you can stop your head spinning like I'm going to - by beating it on a brick wall. Because sometimes I just can't stop myself.
Skip the duct tape and stick - you can stop your head spinning like I'm going to - by beating it on a brick wall. Because sometimes I just can't stop myself.
Thanks a lot ... now I want some KFC!!! ;0
Wow. She's beautiful. I had read about the controversy in big Salon but not seen a photo.
nerd - lol. a new bell curve with everyone at the top. hilarious. I think that would be called the pin curve with everyone sitting on the top of a pin head. great visual. thanks for stopping by.
Ann - nah. KFC sucks since they made it healthy!
Buzz - she is quite fetching. I agree.
Ann - nah. KFC sucks since they made it healthy!
Buzz - she is quite fetching. I agree.
I'm not sure what enrages me more about this: the fact that it's so clearly inappropriate, or the fact that clearly people are grabbing at straws to discredit any Obama nominees for any reason. I think that their are certainly reasonable discussions to have about his choices for some positions (well...really not Dr. Benjamin...it's hard to imagine someone more qualified to be surgeon general) but please, people. Maybe she's technically overweight but so are so many Americans. Get back to real issues.
It's a good old boys club all the same. 2009 and women are still second class.
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