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Old 03-17-2010, 06:30 PM   #76
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Re: put your own caption

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Originally Posted by JoeGrotowski View Post
Everyone,

Please forgive me, but this sort of thing has gone on needlessly for far too long for no living soul to speak out against it:

'Fat' jokes are NOT FUNNY, and the telling of them serves the continuation of peoples' humiliation and suffering.
Why
is it Ok, this universally accepted put - down?

It transcends both gender and race.
This is shameful, in this year of 2010, and I'm not just talking about what you guys have said here but am speaking of the problem itself.

Seriously,
Being of a 'visible minority' is Ok.
Being female is Ok.
Being gay is Ok.
But if you're fat....

I can see the difference in size between the girls in the picture just the same as anyone, however,
There is no humanly attainable weight
[or body proportions, which is what it amounts to] that causes a person to no longer have feelings [or eyes and ears] and it's Ok to make fun of them from that point forward.

These 'little jokes' hurt peoples' feelings, whether or not they are the butt of the current joke.
In all likelihood they themselves don't want to be the weight/ size/ have the body proportions they do, BECAUSE OF social intolerance such as the telling of 'fat' jokes, and often times take drastic, dangerous medical procedures just to not be the butt of the joke anymore.

Please consider this, since you guys have expressed strong intolerance to other things of this nature in the past yourselves.

Now, what you don't realize is the fact that I am fat myself. I've personally gotten used to the fact that I am overweight, and I laugh at every fat joke people say about me.
I've been compared to Shrek in the past, yet it doesn't bug me.
I have decided something: every time someone calls me fat, I am going to call them 'slim', or something of the nature.
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