So, I'm sitting here this morning at the 'puter, reading from several other message boards, trying to glean more info about lap band surgery, and stumble across a thread about weight discrimination. The discussion became heated about halfway through, with some members saying it is wrong to put down skinny people, just as it is wrong to diss on fat people. I agree with that statement as it stands.
However........
When a person (skinny or otherwise) -- or just an idiot in general -- disses me because I'm fat, ugly, skinny, tall, have huge feet (which I do), stinky breath, and WHATEVER, I then have the right to feel any way I wanna feel -- angry, sad, upset, WHATEVER -- and diss right back and call them whatever I deem fit.
Period.
Now, concerning weight discrimination, I'm here to testify that it is real. I've encountered it a lot in my life. The first time was at the age of 24 when I applied for an office position. The hiring manager showed me around, explained the job briefly, and then made a point to show me the cubical from where I would be working. He said, "Do you think you'd fit in here?" I said, "Oh, yes. I can fit in anywere. I'm very good with getting along with others, and I'm a team player."
Then he said this, "I'm not talking about personality-wise. I'm talking about PHYSICALLY. I don't think you could possibly fit into this cubicle at your size. So, I cannot hire you."
I left feeling totally defeated and full of self-loathing. That was many years ago. What I SHOULD have done was to look at him straight in the face and called him everything but a milk cow, then marched myself to a lawyer and sued the snot outta the place.
Anyway.........just felt like venting about this this morning because many of the folks from the other board -- upholding the 22-year-old store clerk's rights to diss on a fat woman in her store -- are quite young and very Politically Correct. Well, I'm not PC at all when it comes to making people feel less than they are simply based on weight or (fill in the blank) physical criteria.