Comments on: 5 Things You Need to Understand Before Cracking Your Next Fat Joke http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/ Skewered bits of what really matters. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:28:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Tony http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-321 Tony Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:29:29 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-321 Never really thought about it that much before. Interesting comments Steve. Never really thought about it that much before. Interesting comments Steve.

]]> By: realityonastick http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-323 realityonastick Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:36:16 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-323 Thanks again for all the great comments. Actually I think most people have self-image issues, but people who are overweight/obese are easy targets. I read an article the other day that said most humans may be predisposed to become physically repulsed at the sight of obesity. That would explain the severity of abuse, I suppose. Bottom line: if I start making people sick at the site of me, it's time to handcuff myself to the treadmill! Here's an excerpt from <a href="http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2007/08/05/prejudice-against-the-obese-and-some-of-its-situational-sources/" rel="nofollow">thesituationist:</a> From the taunting of the chubby child in the playground to cruel jibes at fat people in work and social settings, few could doubt there is widespread prejudice against the overweight. However, according to research reported in Evolution and Human Behavior some people suffer abuse because being too fat is mistaken by the brain for a sign of disease. Researchers say the immune system can be triggered into action at the sight of obesity because it doesn’t like the look of what it sees, and associates it with infection. Just as it orchestrates attacks on viruses and bacteria and triggers nausea at the hint of bad food, so it sends out signals of disgust in some people at the sight of an obese body that is designed to encourage avoidance and survival. The finding comes just days after research in The New England Journal of Medicine suggested that obesity is contagious, in a social rather than bacteriological sense. [summarized here.] “Antipathy toward obese people is a powerful and pervasive prejudice in many contemporary populations. Our results reveal, for the first time, that this prejudice may be rooted in multiple, independent mechanisms. They provide the first evidence that obesity serves as a cue for pathogen infection,” say the University of British Columbia researchers. They say a behavioural immune system appears to have evolved in humans that is designed to detect body signs that are related to disease, like rashes and lesions. The sight of them triggers disgust as well as negative attitudes and avoidance. The system errs in favour of over-reacting because failure to react to a real danger could be fatal. Thanks again for all the great comments. Actually I think most people have self-image issues, but people who are overweight/obese are easy targets. I read an article the other day that said most humans may be predisposed to become physically repulsed at the sight of obesity. That would explain the severity of abuse, I suppose. Bottom line: if I start making people sick at the site of me, it’s time to handcuff myself to the treadmill!

Here’s an excerpt from thesituationist:
From the taunting of the chubby child in the playground to cruel jibes at fat people in work and social settings, few could doubt there is widespread prejudice against the overweight. However, according to research reported in Evolution and Human Behavior some people suffer abuse because being too fat is mistaken by the brain for a sign of disease.

Researchers say the immune system can be triggered into action at the sight of obesity because it doesn’t like the look of what it sees, and associates it with infection.

Just as it orchestrates attacks on viruses and bacteria and triggers nausea at the hint of bad food, so it sends out signals of disgust in some people at the sight of an obese body that is designed to encourage avoidance and survival.

The finding comes just days after research in The New England Journal of Medicine suggested that obesity is contagious, in a social rather than bacteriological sense. [summarized here.]

“Antipathy toward obese people is a powerful and pervasive prejudice in many contemporary populations. Our results reveal, for the first time, that this prejudice may be rooted in multiple, independent mechanisms. They provide the first evidence that obesity serves as a cue for pathogen infection,” say the University of British Columbia researchers.

They say a behavioural immune system appears to have evolved in humans that is designed to detect body signs that are related to disease, like rashes and lesions. The sight of them triggers disgust as well as negative attitudes and avoidance. The system errs in favour of over-reacting because failure to react to a real danger could be fatal.

]]> By: shojinish http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-326 shojinish Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:46:55 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-326 Sorry, Steve. I guess you inherited my build and my love for food. (Remember, mac & cheese tossed with mixed veggies and spam?) Size is relative. Here, I'm a relatively healthy looking 220# guy. note: I ordered coaches shirts for my asstistants the other day: My XL, a 2XL, 2 4xL and a 5XL. subnote: that is not a reason to consider moving home. Dad Sorry, Steve. I guess you inherited my build and my love for food. (Remember, mac & cheese tossed with mixed veggies and spam?)

Size is relative. Here, I’m a relatively healthy looking 220# guy. note: I ordered coaches shirts for my asstistants the other day: My XL, a 2XL, 2 4xL and a 5XL. subnote: that is not a reason to consider moving home.

Dad

]]> By: Aunt Deb http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-320 Aunt Deb Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:03:20 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-320 well I found this interesting being a person who has had a weight issue and eating disorder issue all my life. your outlook on things are true but unless you live the life it is hard to understand I had it both ways in my early years. and it is something that I still deal with emotionally as well as physically on a daily basis, yet I struggle because I hope that my choices for my food addiction don't develop or find there way into my daughter's or son's healthy patterns so far so good. glad you vented post very interesting. well I found this interesting being a person who has
had a weight issue and eating disorder issue all my life. your outlook on things are true but unless you live the life it is hard to understand I had it both ways in my early years. and it is something that I still deal with emotionally as well as physically
on a daily basis, yet I struggle because I hope that
my choices for my food addiction don’t develop or find there way into my daughter’s or son’s
healthy patterns so far so good.

glad you vented post very interesting.

]]> By: Miss Behaving http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-327 Miss Behaving Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:02:19 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-327 I don't think the reaction in the Philipines is an Oscar nod. I was reading a great book called Global Woman about women who move around the world for work ( the care drain etc). For some reason Hong Kong employers are really bad for Flilipino women, and they dont give them enough food ( sorry I am generalising of course) . The Filipino women say the worst thing is the humiliation of going home skinny! Chunky ( husky?) Means affluence. I don’t think the reaction in the Philipines is an Oscar nod. I was reading a great book called Global Woman about women who move around the world for work ( the care drain etc). For some reason Hong Kong employers are really bad for Flilipino women, and they dont give them enough food ( sorry I am generalising of course) . The Filipino women say the worst thing is the humiliation of going home skinny! Chunky ( husky?) Means affluence.

]]> By: rob http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-325 rob Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:51:41 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-325 dudes, i totally hear you on the lilliput buzz. my students used to be fascinated by my shoes (a size 12). though i didn't have it as bad as the literal giant that steve hired before i left. and dude, as for the cruel junior high boys, mine is unfortunately the only thing living in me. it could be why i'm terrible terribly alone, well that could be because of several things really i suppose. in short, dude move back to the states and youll be like super skinny in comparison to the behemoths you got waddling round over there. i saw a documentary the other night on a guy who was half a ton. HALF A TON! if someone turned him onto his back he couldnt breathe because his own weight was crushing his lungs. remember steve, theres nothing wrong with being husky. sure youre not as "model" handsome as i am but what can you do? dudes, i totally hear you on the lilliput buzz. my students used to be fascinated by my shoes (a size 12). though i didn’t have it as bad as the literal giant that steve hired before i left.
and dude, as for the cruel junior high boys, mine is unfortunately the only thing living in me. it could be why i’m terrible terribly alone, well that could be because of several things really i suppose.
in short, dude move back to the states and youll be like super skinny in comparison to the behemoths you got waddling round over there. i saw a documentary the other night on a guy who was half a ton. HALF A TON! if someone turned him onto his back he couldnt breathe because his own weight was crushing his lungs.
remember steve, theres nothing wrong with being husky. sure youre not as “model” handsome as i am but what can you do?

]]> By: realityonastick http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-324 realityonastick Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:21:40 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-324 oldschoolgames: Your anonymous comment looks suspiciously like spam, but there's a lot of valuable information, so I'll leave it up for now. rob: yes, we do say lots of awful things to each other, which is important since we spend a lot of our time feeding the cruel junior high school boys that live on in us. that's what makes you such an important part of my life: if it weren't for friends like you, I'd still be an asshole to everyone! Miss Behaving: Couldn't agree more. Living in Japan gives us a skewed perspective of what's normal and acceptable. I guess the other extreme would be living in the states;-) BTW--When I was in the Philippines I purchased my first XXL shirt! People couldn't stop talking about how big I was, though it sounded more envious than what you hear in Japan. Perhaps they're just better actors! oldschoolgames: Your anonymous comment looks suspiciously like spam, but there’s a lot of valuable information, so I’ll leave it up for now.

rob: yes, we do say lots of awful things to each other, which is important since we spend a lot of our time feeding the cruel junior high school boys that live on in us. that’s what makes you such an important part of my life: if it weren’t for friends like you, I’d still be an asshole to everyone!

Miss Behaving: Couldn’t agree more. Living in Japan gives us a skewed perspective of what’s normal and acceptable. I guess the other extreme would be living in the states;-) BTW–When I was in the Philippines I purchased my first XXL shirt! People couldn’t stop talking about how big I was, though it sounded more envious than what you hear in Japan. Perhaps they’re just better actors!

]]> By: Miss Behaving http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-322 Miss Behaving Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:49:16 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-322 Living in Lilliput doesn`t help. Living in Lilliput doesn`t help.

]]> By: rob http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-319 rob Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:55:01 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-319 this would be a lot easier to take seriously if you didn't call me a four eyed/anorexic/nerdy/potato and corned beef eating/mick/paddy/leprechaun/etc. every single time we talk. now why don't you quit your whinging and just go chow down like you always do. oh no he di'in't! you know i love you though right dude?? this would be a lot easier to take seriously if you didn’t call me a four eyed/anorexic/nerdy/potato and corned beef eating/mick/paddy/leprechaun/etc. every single time we talk.

now why don’t you quit your whinging and just go chow down like you always do.

oh no he di’in’t!

you know i love you though right dude??

]]> By: oldschoolgames http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-318 oldschoolgames Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:18:34 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/08/22/5-things-you-need-to-understand-before-cracking-your-next-fat-joke/#comment-318 <a href="http://pettusco.4idiots.hop.clickbank.net/" rel="nofollow">Fat Loss 4 Idiots.</a> worked for my mom Fat Loss 4 Idiots.

worked for my mom

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