This isn't directed at Sugar and Spice because a few people were talking about how racism is similar to so-called discrimination against fatter people.
ITs a very weak analogy, especially when undeveloped. A distant kind of simile that casts light on a human behavioral problem.
Discrimination is NOT a word that should be used in application to being overweight.
Fat people are not going to be offered lesser salaries. ITs not going to be a factor in College admissions. They are not going to be asked to sit in the back of the bus, or treated like second class citizens in general.
Oh, and another large difference is that fat people can join the enemy by losing weight lol. That is not an option for people of various ethnicities. This is not a situation where the person is powerless to affect the perceptions of people around them.
There are certainly enough success stories where even morbidly obese people have become "Thin".
There really just isn't a discrimination issue . . . I mean seriously are the Fat People of the world going to unite (I am a little toungue in cheek here), rise up and march for their right to .. . .
What? lol.
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Originally posted by sugar and spice
My boyfriend and I were discussing this issue a couple days ago, and I actually compared it to race relations. I basically said that skinny people can complain about how they can relate to fat people's problems because they get "discriminated" against too, but it's not the same thing at all . . . much like some white people like to pretend that "reverse discrimination" is as painful as the discrimination that minorities face. 
An interesting analogy.
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