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This really pisses me off.
Investigators found that when women wore a prosthetic suit designed to make them look obese, they were treated more rudely, and received fewer smiles and less eye contact from sales clerks at a Houston, Texas, shopping mall than when they shopped without the fat suit.
No shit?
I know they probably just used the fat suit so that people who don't usually suffer from size-related prejudice would see the difference, but GOD DAMN IT, JUST ASK A FAT PERSON ABOUT HOW PEOPLE TREAT THEM.
I've been out with people who aren't stick-skinny. I've seen the difference. I don't need to get into a fat suit to fucking EMPATHIZE with that. Because once you're standing awkwardly next to a girl in a dress shop who's about to burst into tears because nothing decent is in her size, trying to fend off saleswomen who are hauling forth a bunch of nasty little burlap deals that she has repeatedly said she doesn't like because it would "flatter her figure", and avoiding the glares of other shoppers who see nothing but a fat girl making noise- and God knows we can't have that- then you don't need to wear a couple of pounds of rubber to feel bad and know that people fucking SUCK. Imagine getting dirty looks from people whenever you eat anything that isn't a piece of lettuce on a stick, or being told that you'd "look perfect if you just lost a little weight", or having all of your health problems ignored when you go to the doctor's because apparently ALL you need to do is "watch your weight." (According to some physicians, this will make polycystic ovarian disease disappear like magic. Predictably, this turned out to be BULL-FUCKIN'-SHIT, with extra bull, twice the shit, and lots of fuckin'.)
I've kind of been there. I'm not chubby now, but a few years back I was, and that was what I got all the time. My best friend used to be fat, and he got the same. Now that the both of us are skinnier I've noticed such a huge fucking difference in the way people look at us. The sniggers are gone. The discreet little coughs. People asking if we wouldn't prefer a Diet Coke instead.
Maybe that's supposed to make me happy. Maybe I'm supposed to forget about it. Instead it just makes me angry. Am I MORE of a fuckin' human being now than when I was heavier? Are the people that I love LESS human because of their weight? What right does anyone have to treat someone else like shit because of numbers on a scale?
Look, dudes, dudettes, and dudets. Being fat is cool. Being skinny is cool too. Being anything between? Equally cool. BODY DIVERSITY IS FUCKING AWESOME, PEOPLE.
It makes me so fucking angry that people never seem to recognize that.
RELEVANT EDIT: THEY'RE EVEN PUTTING COOKIE MONSTER ON A DIET! IS NOTHING SACRED TO THESE PEOPLE???
Investigators found that when women wore a prosthetic suit designed to make them look obese, they were treated more rudely, and received fewer smiles and less eye contact from sales clerks at a Houston, Texas, shopping mall than when they shopped without the fat suit.
No shit?
I know they probably just used the fat suit so that people who don't usually suffer from size-related prejudice would see the difference, but GOD DAMN IT, JUST ASK A FAT PERSON ABOUT HOW PEOPLE TREAT THEM.
I've been out with people who aren't stick-skinny. I've seen the difference. I don't need to get into a fat suit to fucking EMPATHIZE with that. Because once you're standing awkwardly next to a girl in a dress shop who's about to burst into tears because nothing decent is in her size, trying to fend off saleswomen who are hauling forth a bunch of nasty little burlap deals that she has repeatedly said she doesn't like because it would "flatter her figure", and avoiding the glares of other shoppers who see nothing but a fat girl making noise- and God knows we can't have that- then you don't need to wear a couple of pounds of rubber to feel bad and know that people fucking SUCK. Imagine getting dirty looks from people whenever you eat anything that isn't a piece of lettuce on a stick, or being told that you'd "look perfect if you just lost a little weight", or having all of your health problems ignored when you go to the doctor's because apparently ALL you need to do is "watch your weight." (According to some physicians, this will make polycystic ovarian disease disappear like magic. Predictably, this turned out to be BULL-FUCKIN'-SHIT, with extra bull, twice the shit, and lots of fuckin'.)
I've kind of been there. I'm not chubby now, but a few years back I was, and that was what I got all the time. My best friend used to be fat, and he got the same. Now that the both of us are skinnier I've noticed such a huge fucking difference in the way people look at us. The sniggers are gone. The discreet little coughs. People asking if we wouldn't prefer a Diet Coke instead.
Maybe that's supposed to make me happy. Maybe I'm supposed to forget about it. Instead it just makes me angry. Am I MORE of a fuckin' human being now than when I was heavier? Are the people that I love LESS human because of their weight? What right does anyone have to treat someone else like shit because of numbers on a scale?
Look, dudes, dudettes, and dudets. Being fat is cool. Being skinny is cool too. Being anything between? Equally cool. BODY DIVERSITY IS FUCKING AWESOME, PEOPLE.
It makes me so fucking angry that people never seem to recognize that.
RELEVANT EDIT: THEY'RE EVEN PUTTING COOKIE MONSTER ON A DIET! IS NOTHING SACRED TO THESE PEOPLE???