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If only she'd been thin, her life may have had some value.
I take a lot of shit for calling myself a "fat activist." There are plenty of people out there who think that HAES and any sort of fat-positive talk amounts to fat people bitching because no one finds them attractive. Right. Yes. It's not about job or housing discrimination, being humiliated at the airport, or general fat-bashing, or getting blamed for a dysfunctional health-care system, or so-called helpful advice that assumes we must enjoy courting death or we wouldn't "look like THAT." It's clearly about wanting to be desired and adored by strangers. Bwha--?
The very suggestion that fat does not always equal unhealthy is met with scorn and derision--funny, seeing as how we all agree that one can be thin and unhealthy. My friend Cindy was skinny as a rail, but I could run circles around her.
Trying to explain that all fat people are NOT lazy, self-indulgent, gluttonous, or apathetic about their health is like talking to a brick wall. And of course, fat people are one of the last groups it's still okay to openly mock. Imagine my intense sadness when my beloved Jon Stewart actually wore a fat suit to demonstrate how "lazy" he'd gotten while Daily Show was on break.
Really, Jon? Really?
So yeah, I do feel it's my obligation to speak up when something ridiculous happens, even when it happens to someone I dislike or strongly disagree with. Ex: Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore should be mocked for being partisan hacks or lying jackasses, not because they are fat.
With that in mind, I was disgusted to learn that a doctor who admitted he was distracted and driving carelessly was merely fined for killing a woman with his car. And why? Because obviously, "a thinner woman probably would have survived." You see, it wasn't the giant hunk of metal hitting her at a high speed that killed her. It was her terrible, terrible fat. And of course, doctors are such wonderful people that they should be allowed, I guess, to kill one person for every few they save, or something...
Admittedly, this may be more about rich people getting away with shit than it actually being okay to murder useless fat people. I guess if she didn't want to get hit by a car and killed, she should have put down the fork.
So I ask you, at what weight do you no longer deserve to NOT be hit by a car and then blamed for causing your own death? Can I hit a smoker with my car and get off with a fine--after all, they were gonna die anyway, and a non-smoker might have miraculously survived. Matter of fact, ANY mortal is just gonna die anyway--so why is murder such a big freakin' deal in the first place? By insisting on staying alive--you're only postponing the inevitable.
The very suggestion that fat does not always equal unhealthy is met with scorn and derision--funny, seeing as how we all agree that one can be thin and unhealthy. My friend Cindy was skinny as a rail, but I could run circles around her.
Trying to explain that all fat people are NOT lazy, self-indulgent, gluttonous, or apathetic about their health is like talking to a brick wall. And of course, fat people are one of the last groups it's still okay to openly mock. Imagine my intense sadness when my beloved Jon Stewart actually wore a fat suit to demonstrate how "lazy" he'd gotten while Daily Show was on break.
Really, Jon? Really?
So yeah, I do feel it's my obligation to speak up when something ridiculous happens, even when it happens to someone I dislike or strongly disagree with. Ex: Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore should be mocked for being partisan hacks or lying jackasses, not because they are fat.
With that in mind, I was disgusted to learn that a doctor who admitted he was distracted and driving carelessly was merely fined for killing a woman with his car. And why? Because obviously, "a thinner woman probably would have survived." You see, it wasn't the giant hunk of metal hitting her at a high speed that killed her. It was her terrible, terrible fat. And of course, doctors are such wonderful people that they should be allowed, I guess, to kill one person for every few they save, or something...
Admittedly, this may be more about rich people getting away with shit than it actually being okay to murder useless fat people. I guess if she didn't want to get hit by a car and killed, she should have put down the fork.
So I ask you, at what weight do you no longer deserve to NOT be hit by a car and then blamed for causing your own death? Can I hit a smoker with my car and get off with a fine--after all, they were gonna die anyway, and a non-smoker might have miraculously survived. Matter of fact, ANY mortal is just gonna die anyway--so why is murder such a big freakin' deal in the first place? By insisting on staying alive--you're only postponing the inevitable.
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So many things wrong there I didn't even bother listing them.