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[firecat]

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]

Also, I find that a good way to stop people from talking about "their tax dollars" is to suggest that if fat people are to be denied coverage, or denied affordable coverage, for their health needs, then it automatically follows that athletes--particularly climbers and motorsports people and football players and boxers, but generally athletes--should also be denied the same coverage, because of the likelihood that they will require expensive care and recurrent care due to the frequency and severity with which they manage to injure themselves. And if they're kinky or queer like me I make sure to add the coda about how would they like their health professionals to quiz them on the perceived risk (not the actual risk, just the perceived risk) of their sexual lives?

[firecat]

Health care costs increase with age. Maybe the next time I hear someone using the "my tax dollars" argument, I'll tell them to go watch Logan's Run.