Weightism: Prejudice or discrimmination against people based on weight. It not only happens with fat people, but skinny ones too. (From urbandictionary.com)
I heard this word for the first time this past Thursday. I was listening to the radio in my car on the way to run some errands. The radio station played a recording from a listener that left a message.
We all know that there are all walks of life out there, but to actually hear someone have such a strong prejudice against an overweight person was really hard for me to hear. Though I’m far from being overweight, I’m very sensitive to this topic because I used to be very overweight. I know that there can be different reasons why people are overweight and that’s fine. Maybe it’s genetic, maybe they have binge eating disorder, maybe they have a really hard life and don’t know where else to turn…
No matter why someone is overweight, there is absolutely NO reason for anyone to make fun of them or to say hurtful things. No reason.
The message was left in response to the DJ having a friend that is on this season of The Biggest Loser. The woman said that it was “disgusting to have a fat friend” and she went on and on. Can you believe this person? What kind of a person says things like this?
The most ironic part of the whole thing is that the friend is on The Biggest Loser because she wants to become more healthy. She obviously realizes that she needs to lose weight and she’s being proactive about it. How do you knock someone like that?!?
I’m sure many of you are not the kind of people who would ever make fun of someone with weight issues… and that is awesome. We never know what issues are going on in someone’s life and we are not in the position to ever pass judgement.
Weightism is something that needs to be put to rest and not be just another thing that people can choose to be prejudice about.
Weightism: Prejudice or discrimmination against people based on weight. It not only happens with fat people, but skinny ones too. (From urbandictionary.com)
I heard this word for the first time this past Thursday. I was listening to the radio in my car on the way to run some errands. The radio station played a recording from a listener that left a message.
We all know that there are all walks of life out there, but to actually hear someone have such a strong prejudice against an overweight person was really hard for me to hear. Though I’m far from being overweight, I’m very sensitive to this topic because I used to be very overweight. I know that there can be different reasons why people are overweight and that’s fine. Maybe it’s genetic, maybe they have binge eating disorder, maybe they have a really hard life and don’t know where else to turn…
No matter why someone is overweight, there is absolutely NO reason for anyone to make fun of them or to say hurtful things. No reason.
The message was left in response to the DJ having a friend that is on this season of The Biggest Loser. The woman said that it was “disgusting to have a fat friend” and she went on and on. Can you believe this person? What kind of a person says things like this?
The most ironic part of the whole thing is that the friend is on The Biggest Loser because she wants to become more healthy. She obviously realizes that she needs to lose weight and she’s being proactive about it. How do you knock someone like that?!?
I’m sure many of you are not the kind of people who would ever make fun of someone with weight issues… and that is awesome. We never know what issues are going on in someone’s life and we are not in the position to ever pass judgement.
Weightism is something that needs to be put to rest and not be just another thing that people can choose to be prejudice about.