02-16-2010
10:36 AM
I think that you skinny folks tend to assume too much about what being overweight means. You seem to be under the impression that being fat is solely a symptom of eating too much. You don't struggle with weight, so you don't consider that some folks have health issues that screw up their metabolisms, you don't consider that some people are just built large and will never be skinny no matter how well they eat or how they work out. So all you folks going on about how Southwest is so awesome for enforcing this discriminatory rule come across as being rather ignorant. This seems like another form of institutionalized, socially acceptable discrimination that is so accepted because hey, fat people are fat, and their gross bodies earn them all the ridicule they get. The same people who would throw a fit if someone dared discriminate against someone for the color of his skin would gladly toss a fatty under a bus, but it isn't acceptable in the least. Grow up folks. Educate yourselves. And please don't make the mistake of thinking that this policy is anything but bullcrap.
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