Un-Fucking-Believable!!

[ravan]

Lawmakers want to deny fat people (as definaed by the state and their bogus BMI charts) the right to eat out.

Yep, fat folks are the new "niggers" in modern society - but in these fruitcakes minds, it's "different", because "obesity" is controllable by willpower, and fat folks are just "lazy" and "weak".

<sarcasm>Yesa massa, I just be shuckin' and jivin' and I get mah food to go at the back door. I won't make yah loose yah license for feedin' fatties in public.</sarcasm>

Yes, all you people who cheered when they started making all kinds of laws against smoking in public and then private spaces, guess what? This is the logical extension - legislation of personal choice in the interests of the state keeping its "costs" down.

Where's my fucking chocolate. I swear, if I lived in this asshole's state I'd stage an "eat-in" at his office. Fucking health nazi.

Comments

[heethen-crone.livejournal.com]

Fucking shame that they think that such a law is a good thing. What about pregnant women? Will they be banned from resteraunts too? What about folks on a diet and loosing weight? People who gain weight because of medications?

[talvinamarich.livejournal.com]

This is a few idiots out to get some time in the news for their agenda.

1) It won't pass. It would be political suicide, and they know it.

2) If it did, the courts would shoot it down so fast.

[treecat]

argh:

Athletic people have inaccurately high bmi's because the muscle weighs more than fat.

There is considerable evidence that willpower is one of the less important factors in whether a person is overweight.

What would really be political suicide as well is if they were to try to address all the addictive non-foods that are being sold as food these days (of which fast-food is almost the least of the problem) and the extreme portion sizes at restaurants that started in the 80s.

[johno.livejournal.com]

force feeding underweight folks in the law too?

What about drive troughs? Would they have to put cameras at the order station?

[weofodthignen]

Ugh. What will it take for Americans to stop accepting abuse from these control freaks?

However, I don't accept smoking as a good analogy. That local law that you can't smoke in any dwelling in . . . is it Menlo Park? . . . is disgraceful. The point on that slippery slope to legally rebel was, IMO, when employers started refusing to hire smokers whether or not they confined their smoking to after work. But smoking in restaurants prevents others from going to the restaurants. And smoking is an either/or thing; either a person has lit tobacco on their person, or they don't. Whereas BMI is a scale. Laws against smoking indoors in public establishments are reasonable, in my view. Where one might debate is laws against smoking in outdoor public areas, such as on restaurant patios, at doors, or at bus stops. I've gone from being impervious to smoke so long as it doesn't contain cannabis to getting short of breath and ill when someone smokes within about fifteen feet; I have to do a dance at bus stops, the smoker almost always edges closer. I didn't realize until these past few years that it was even a problem outdoors.

But smoking at home is people's own business, and how fat they are is entirely so--or indeed how skinny, or how fit. None of these is either contagious or dangerous to anyone else's health!

M