7 in 10 men overweight

Maguined

RDM_83 again wrote: »

^^^^

Just in relation to that suggestion and I'm not suggesting at all you mean it that way but the optics of what you suggest would be amazingly bad from a race angle (black female obesity = 41% white female obesity = 24.5%)

Edit: And thats without even going into the socio-economic thing

Why would you make it about race though? The suggestion had no racial prejudices involved in the process at all.

RDM_83 again

Maguined wrote: »

Why would you make it about race though? The suggestion had no racial prejudices involved in the process at all.

Your saying that a TV camera crew filming a FEMA helicopter lifting away middle class white women and leaving behind black working class women behind wouldn't end up being seen as Racist by parts of the US media.
I'm not commenting on the suggestion itself but how others would pick it up if it was implemented.

Maguined

RDM_83 again wrote: »

Your saying that a TV camera crew filming a FEMA helicopter lifting away middle class white women and leaving behind black working class women behind wouldn't end up being seen as Racist by parts of the US media.
I'm not commenting on the suggestion itself but how others would pick it up if it was implemented.

I'm saying that should not be relevant when making decisions about prioritising human lives. If a new procedure could save more lives that is not inherently racist itself then it should be implemented. There will always be some people looking to call anything racist and you don't pander to it, a reasonable explanation trumps sensationalism and I believe reasonable people looking at such a proposal would not view it as inherently racist as it is not targetting race but obesity so it is not responsible for the racial demographic of obese people.

Soft Falling Rain

My weight constantly fluctuates. I think I was at my fittest in 2011 but I always let something derail me (I'm an emotional eater/drinker).

Both my social circles (work and friends) have a heavy drinking culture which I'm kind of sick of now tbh. I've literally had my fill (at my worst I would have been going out Friday/Saturday/Sunday and downing 6 pints of cider on each which is absolutely not good for the belly) at this stage and am starting to feel the motivation come back.

My diet once I'm in the gym is good during the week but it always go to sh1t at the weekend so I know that's the key to making headway for me; find better ways of spending my time off.

Tarzana2

Dean0088 wrote: »

As for discrimination - I actually think it's okay to discriminate against obese (not overweight) people for certain jobs.

It's unspoken but anyone who aspires to work in marketing, fashion retail and certain hospitality jobs will have their looks evaluated too. And probably for many other people-facing positions.

Pawwed Rig

There is actually no law against discriminating based on looks or weight. Similarly there is no law against discriminating against Polish people or Germans (to pick two nationalities at random).

Tarzana2

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Similarly there is no law against discriminating against Polish people or Germans (to pick two nationalities at random).

Wut?

The Employment Equality Act 1998 prohibits discrimination in the workplace on the following grounds
• Gender
• Marital status
• Family status
• Sexual orientation
• Religion
• Age
• Disability
• Race/colour/nationality/ethnic or national origins
• Membership of the travelling community.

Pawwed Rig

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Wut?

Ah ok. Nationality usen't be in there when I did my employment law module.