Agreed. More public shaming would go a long way to curing this ignominious epidemic. Boredom and a conspicuous lack of willpower is a poor excuse for a disability.
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i think hot chicks should be discriminated against. if i was an employer i would never hire a hot chick - let's consider the facts:

1) infinitely more likely to get sexual harassment suit working with hot chick than fat slob;
2) more distractions staring at hot chicks walking by - leads to more workplace accidents
3) sleepless nights inspired by sweaty fantasies
4) marital break ups
5) ultimately disappointed (when her brain-dead buff boyfriend shows up at office parties)
6) callouses ('nuff said)

Callouses of the penis?

I am fat so I have to agree.

Add to that I am slow, lazy, cranky and snooze a lot. What the hell are my employers smoking, I wonder...

Yes, I am fat. God knows but I am fat as hell. Guess life will have to endure my fattiness.

And a picture? umm...

http://www.lab1663.net/images/sam_082909_1.jpg

That would be me, give and take around 10 inches or 20 around the waist.

I know exactly what you mean. Aside from those who have some sort of genuine condition which causes them to pile on the pounds, they have nothing to complain about. Well...perhaps I wouldn't say any hostility towards them is justified. Some like the way they are and it's not really our place to deem what's right or wrong. But it's those that feel sorry for themselves about it. Those that "want to lose weight but just can't". I wanted to lose weight...so I did. 19 pounds between April and July this year. I have no problem with people being fat, I have a problem with people being fat and not liking it. Something that they have the power to change and want to change, they should.

Yes, we should all be encouraged to hate more.

I'm forty pounds overweight right now. I'd like to drop twenty. While there are a lot of fat people who eat because they're bored, there's an equal number that eat because of trauma, depression and our society's weird interrelationship between food and shame. There are some people who become sex addicts because they think they're worthless due to molestation, neglect or abuse. Just as many people develop eating disorders because of that. And a spiral or worthlessess starts. You make a child feel worthless, they get worthless. So, a lot of the time, obesity is a consequence of mental illness. I have seen many a slovenly inbred aberration against God who doesn't have the drive to eat anything besides chicken nuggets, I will concede to that, but I don't think you have the whole story on obesity. Should an obese person sue for discrimination? Depends on the job. If the job is one in which a person will need to be moving around, it stands to reason, you should pick a lighter, more agile person. This is not a matter of discrimination, this is a matter of logic. A person with Down Syndrome shouldn't sue because they can't be head of the Journalism department at Columbia. BUT if an obese person is doing intellectual work for which they are more qualified than other applicants, then they should sue. If Alfred Hitchcock wanted to be a film professor and they hired some thinner grad student instead, he would have been right to sue the living fuck out of those people. If I found out somebody refused to publish work of mine because I'm forty pounds overweight, I'd feel like suing the fuck out of them. Then again, you'd have to be an idiot to not publish authors who are overweight because about sixty percent of us are.

At my restaurant we have a 350ish server who is one of the best we have. Quick for a big guy but in my line of work you would never hire an overwieght person cause they simply arent fast enough. When tables are comin in one after another you need fast and quick people to handle it. Thin line between discrimination and customer service reguarding restuarant work.

I used to weigh 275 lbs. I got a job that reqiered laboring and dropped to 185. I don't want to hear excuses, its possible to be skinny if you want it bad enough.

authors are exempt. alfred hitchcock's weight was always changing, so he wanted to lose weight and was able to, but he could never keep it off. for the most part fat people are worse for the environment (even considering the fact that they die sooner) the medical system (again even though they die sooner) and smell worse. most of them can change and decide not to.

you guys should check this out: http://www.angry.net/people/f/fat_people.htm