Fat Studies (ping ed)
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asthmatic camel
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Re: Fat Studies (ping ed)
Oooh, be careful, Abdul LackofAbs, the Lord of Lard can be terrible in his wrath.
Shit happens. The older you get, the more often shit happens. So you have to try not to give a shit even when you do. Because, if you give too many shits, you've created your own shit creek and there's no way out other than swimming through the shit. Oh, and fuck.
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Grammatron
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Re: Fat Studies (ping ed)
Stop eating too much and walk around once in a while.
Where do I pick up my PhD?
Where do I pick up my PhD?
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Re: Fat Studies (ping ed)
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"Doctor X is just treating you the way he treats everyone--as subhuman crap too dumb to breathe in after you breathe out." – Don
DocX: FTW. – sparks
"Doctor X wins again." – Pyrrho
"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry." – His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone." – clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far." – Grammatron
"Indeed you are a river to your people.
Shit. That's going to end up in your sig." – Pyrrho
"Try a twelve step program and accept Doctor X as your High Power." – asthmatic camel
"just like Doc X said." – gnome
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Re: Fat Studies (ping ed)
A new, hopefully untrodden, academic niche! 
But hey, it's a real problem:
Yet solutions were underway since 2012 at least:
Some stats:
http://metrocosm.com/crazy-american-obe ... -graphics/ (interactive)
But hey, it's a real problem:
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10140Campus Reform wrote:PhD: Small desks cause 'hostile' environment for fat students
Heather Brown interviewed 13 fat women in college, finding that “classroom design and furniture,” especially “too-small desks,” not only make fat women feel “unwanted,” but also perpetuate “thin privilege and fat hatred.”
Brown argues that colleges “must make attempts to alleviate the damage a hostile physical environment causes to fat women learners,” suggesting renovating classrooms with “differently sized chairs and tables.”
Yet solutions were underway since 2012 at least:
http://www.businessinsider.com/school-f ... 012-2?IR=TBusiness Insider wrote:School Furniture Manufacturers Are Now Making Larger Desk Chairs For Fat Students
Some stats:
http://metrocosm.com/crazy-american-obe ... -graphics/ (interactive)
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ed
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sparks
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Re: Fat Studies (ping ed)
A little respect damnit! ed is NOT fat: He's Rubinesque.
You can lead them to knowledge, but you can't make them think.
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asthmatic camel
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Re: Fat Studies (ping ed)
Pedantic asshole alert!
It's "Rubenesque", dumbass.
And ed is not fat, he's immense.
It's "Rubenesque", dumbass.
And ed is not fat, he's immense.
Shit happens. The older you get, the more often shit happens. So you have to try not to give a shit even when you do. Because, if you give too many shits, you've created your own shit creek and there's no way out other than swimming through the shit. Oh, and fuck.
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"Doctor X is just treating you the way he treats everyone--as subhuman crap too dumb to breathe in after you breathe out." – Don
DocX: FTW. – sparks
"Doctor X wins again." – Pyrrho
"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry." – His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone." – clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far." – Grammatron
"Indeed you are a river to your people.
Shit. That's going to end up in your sig." – Pyrrho
"Try a twelve step program and accept Doctor X as your High Power." – asthmatic camel
"just like Doc X said." – gnome
WS CHAMPIONS X4!!!! NBA CHAMPIONS!! Stanley Cup! SB CHAMPIONS X6!!!!!!
"Doctor X is just treating you the way he treats everyone--as subhuman crap too dumb to breathe in after you breathe out." – Don
DocX: FTW. – sparks
"Doctor X wins again." – Pyrrho
"Never sorry to make a racist Fucktard cry." – His Humble MagNIfIcence
"It was the criticisms of Doc X, actually, that let me see more clearly how far the hypocrisy had gone." – clarsct
"I'd leave it up to Doctor X who has been a benevolent tyrant so far." – Grammatron
"Indeed you are a river to your people.
Shit. That's going to end up in your sig." – Pyrrho
"Try a twelve step program and accept Doctor X as your High Power." – asthmatic camel
"just like Doc X said." – gnome
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sparks
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Re: Fat Studies (ping ed)
One little mistake, Jeeeeeezus!!asthmatic camel wrote:Pedantic asshole alert!
It's "Rubenesque", dumbass.
And ed is not fat, he's immense.
You can lead them to knowledge, but you can't make them think.
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Re: Fat Studies (ping ed)
I like that!Abdul Alhazred wrote:The Free Market TM remedies forever!
From the Oregon State University catalog:
http://catalog.oregonstate.edu/CourseDe ... number=466PSY 466. FAT STUDIES (4). Is Baccalaureate Core Course
Examines body weight, shape, and size as an area of human difference subject to privilege and discrimination that intersects with other systems of oppression based on gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, and ability. Employs a multi-disciplinary approach spanning the behavioral sciences and humanities. Frames weight-based oppression as a social justice issue, exploring forms of activism used to counter weightism perpetuated throughout various societal institutions.
What dreary newspeak. Only replacing everybody with identical clones can solve these "problems".
Which reminds me of a thriller by Boris Vian (under the nom de plume Vernon Sullivan), Et on tuera tous les affreux (literally "All uglies will be killed", English title "To Hell with the Ugly") from 1948 (!): evil scientist abducts handsome people to create a super-humanity. A somewhat erotic comic book was based on it.
There's a review here: http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/vianb/tohell.htm