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via supergee

This is brilliant. I'm mostly saving it for my own later use, but I also wanted to share it.

"21 Things to Stop Saying Unless You Hate Fat People"

(If I were writing the article I would rephrase that to "...unless you want to contribute to hatred and discrimination against fat people." I know, I know, that doesn't pack the same rhetorical punch.)

Warnings:
1. Trigger warning for comments -- they might discuss examples of fat hatred.
2. I am instituting rules for the comments of this post. Do not promote any of the things listed as fat-hating. Also do not quibble about whether items on the list count as promoting fat hatred. You might well want to quibble, because even I don't agree with all of items, but please do it somewhere other than in comments to this entry. I'm going to delete comments that don't follow the rules. If I delete your comment, it doesn't mean I hate you.

Comments

[cleverthylacine]

OMG, I hope I get through moderation because I just tore Ms Public Health a new one. She's so wrong she's not even in a galaxy the light from Right can hit within 2000 years. The single most robust predictor of negative health outcomes is socioeconomic status, and the dark secret that health care professionals don't want to accept based on all the research is that while there is a highly heritable component of body weight (if your family is fat, you probably will be, too), the particular type of fat accumulation most often (but not always!) seen in people with metabolic syndromes and other disorders normally blamed on "obesity" is almost certainly caused by stress and inflammation, and correlates very strongly with SES in epidemiological studies. In other words, the broker and more stressed you are, the more likely you are to become fatter than you might have if you were leading a less stressful life and had more resources and better health care.

[amadi]

Public health person is a friend of mine on Twitter and a popular blogger (FeministBreeder) and my jaw dropped. I tried to comment but my phone ate it, and I'm glad I just walked away because I was not very constructive.

It's such a gross thing.

[firecat]

Good comment, both here and there.

[bibliofile]

SES is also a biggie in educational achievement gaps, IIRC. Big surprise, eh?

Brilliant post you linked to, there. Must spread the word!