Obese. Heavy. Big Boned.
Chubby. Pudgy.
Fat.
For decades, body weight has been a hot button of entertainment, and humor. Our country has an obvious stigma, as exemplified by Weird Al's Paradoy "Fat." When does this joking cross the line, into say- discrimination. Or maybe it's entirely overbaord from the start.I'm going to do my policy paper on how discriination based on body size is as, if not more prevalant than discrimination on the basis of gender, sexuality, race, religion and age. I know that's a bold assertion. But why can I say that? Becuase where as many Americans would shudder at the N***** word, or cringe if a spouse said "Make me a sandwich," poking fun at heavier people is still commonly tolerated.
I'm not going to show them, but I can assure you here it takes five seconds of searching you tube to find plenty of relative videos.
Why do we- such a self-proclaimed equal people- impose so many judgments and distinctions among ourselves. I feel like we are perpetually finding reasons to delineate between "us" and "them." And when these categories don't exist, we invent them. Now that discrimination of skin color, beliefs, and God given-genitalia have been outlawed, we as a people are moving on the next open court- physical fitness, waist-to-hip ratio, and the numbers on one's scale. Will we ever quit?
