Overweight People and Discrimination

Overweight people are one of the last openly discriminated-against groups. If they were any other group, they would not allow people to call them the most offensive slur used against them: the "f" word. Imagine swapping the "f" word with any number of racial pejoratives. Well, you may say, it's different. They are overweight because of their own irresponsibility and therefore they deserve ridicule, you might say. Hey, the ridicule may help them and give them a wake-up call, right? Wrong. There are overweight people at every level of society. They have been the richest, most powerful, most disciplined people who have reached every pinnacle of success. They have been presidents, governors, CEOs, film directors, physicians and professors. You think that they are not disciplined? You think that they don't have any will power or self control? The fact is that once you are overweight for any reason, the odds of you losing the weight and keeping it off for 5+ years are exceedingly low. Dieting in some cases is an attempt to defeat a natural instinct as basic as breathing, in a battle doomed to failure. That's no reason to give up hope that they might be one of the lucky ones, but let's face it, some people will not be thin in their lifetimes. They may get to a healthy weight, but it may be unrealistic to get to their ideal weight. This is no reason for overweight people to suffer, or to be derided. Before judging, consider that you might someday become part of a discriminated-against group.

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