Are you prejudiced against fat people?

[El Diablo]

good and others,

"Negative in what way?"

I think my reaction could be accurately described as something like "ugh, what is wrong w/ you, how can you be like that?"

As I said, that's just a negative bias I hold. If they turn out to be good, smart, nice people, I have no problem being their friend or whatever. I just start out by default feeling somewhat negative towards them until I have information to make me feel otherwise.

More specifically, let's take this example. I have two resumes that look similar in terms of backgrounds, experience, etc. I walk into the room where they are waiting and I find:

a black guy and a white guy - I won't hold a preference towards either

a short guy and a tall guy - Again, no preference

a fat guy and an in shape guy - Not having anything to do with health insurance costs or sick days or any specific things having to do with health, I will have an innate bias against the fat guy in a sort of "I'd prefer having the other guy around than the fat guy" way.

This of course assumes that neither of the resumes has an obviously Jewish last name.

[nolanfan34]

I am for sure. Same with smoking.

I've noted to myself in the past that I don't see a lot of either type of person at my current place of employment, and wondered if that correlates to intellegence in some way. Pretty horrible thing to think, eh?

[gumpzilla]

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I am for sure. Same with smoking.

I've noted to myself in the past that I don't see a lot of either type of person at my current place of employment, and wondered if that correlates to intellegence in some way. Pretty horrible thing to think, eh?

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I bet both obesity and smoking correlate pretty well with social class, and that probably correlates well with education, so . . . .

(EDIT: Running that chain backwards makes more logical sense.)

[Bicycles_Biatch]

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Take that test...it will tell you.

I won't disclose my results.

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Wasn't this in the book "Blink"... I think he proved that EVERYONE is prejudice.

[miajag]

El D,

So what's your play if the skinny guy is Joel Rosenberg and the fat guy is Fred Smith?

[Dids]

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I am fat and even I am prejudiced against fat people... I need to get less fat.

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Same.

I know how my body feels, and it sucks, and it's my body telling myself to do something about it.

Right now I'm being good about working out and eating, so it's a more productive "you're getting the same messages as I am, why can't you man up and [censored] do it" view and when I'm not it's more motivated by self loathing.

I'm also more annoyed by fat people who just dress like slops or wear too tight clothing, or the super morbidly obese because it's just like "wow dude, you've really checked out of life"

[Aloysius]

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I'm also more annoyed by fat people who just dress like slops or wear too tight clothing, or the super morbidly obese because it's just like "wow dude, you've really checked out of life"

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Yeah - a sloppy fat dude is way worse than a relatively put together fat dude. Whereas a fit sloppy dude is not much worse than a fit put together dude.

-Al

[kipin]

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I am fat and even I am prejudiced against fat people... I need to get less fat.

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[tdarko]

El D,

Do you have any family memebers that are obese and how do you feel about them?

I have a couple family members that are strangely obese compared to the rest of our family which is pretty healthy for the most part. I find that I tend to be more distant towards my obese family members and less likely to "try" to relate to them than my other family members. It isn't that I love them any less and when I look at it from the family's POV they are probably looked down upon the most in our family as well. I feel bad that it is this way but it is only natural to be turned off by years and years of sedantary lifestyle (for them) and no will to ever make a change.

~td

[A S U]

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ore specifically, let's take this example. I have two resumes that look similar in terms of backgrounds, experience, etc. I walk into the room where they are waiting and I find:

a black guy and a white guy - I won't hold a preference towards either

a short guy and a tall guy - Again, no preference

a fat guy and an in shape guy - Not having anything to do with health insurance costs or sick days or any specific things having to do with health, I will have an innate bias against the fat guy in a sort of "I'd prefer having the other guy around than the fat guy" way.

This of course assumes that neither of the resumes has an obviously Jewish last name.

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You are concerned with health care costs and sick days, yet aren't predjudiced towards blacks?