Sloth and gluttony
Two deadly sins down, five more to go. Come to think of it, I've got a good handle on wrath and lust too.
This just pisses me off. Fat pigs whining about workplace discrimination and demanding coverage under the ADA.
Yeah, fat people get picked on at work. Ugly and smelly people do too. You know why? Most people in this world -- including those people at work -- are fucking stupid imbeciles, and having nothing else to do with their time. Life isn't fair, so let's pass a law. Waaaah.
Speaking of passing a law, that article said that there's some momentum to get the Americans with Disabilities Act amended to make obesity an impairment under the law, as well. That's great: Let's legally absolve fat people of any personal responsibility for how they got that way.
Don't like being passed over for a promotion because the boss is afraid you're going to have a stroke? I've got a better idea: put down the steak and cheese sub and take a walk around the block, tubba.
As a fat person myself, I have absolutely no illusions about how I came to be this way: I may indeed have some genetic markers that predispose me to having a slow metabolism, but I'm fat because I like to eat and don't like to exercise, plain and simple.
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This sort of thing pisses me off too, partially for different reasons, and partially for the same reasons. The ADA and similar previous laws had a wholly different intent as I see them.
Obviously I think ADA is a good law, it helps assure that Melanie can get into buildings and cross the street as well as get a job some day. But IMHO, it was never intended to be twisted in some of the ways it has been.
BTW, I too am an overweight person. I know how I got this way, which is the same as Peter.
I also had the experience this summer of working on an academic project with a very large woman. When things went her way, she credited it to her brain, when they didn't she credited it to weight discrimination. Just for the record, I did 95% of the work on the project.
Posted by: Suellen | September 23, 2003 09:43 AM