Commentary – Should fatties get handicapped privileges?
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I don’t wish to sound unkind because I’m not really an unkind person, but isn’t there a limit to some things? There are several jurisdictions that are giving giant, mammoth like people handicap stickers for their cars, which allows them to park in spaces that most of us can never park because their self induced behemoth like structure makes them unable to walk.
So, if I am unable to walk after being on the wrong side of six-pack does that mean I am entitled to a handicap thingie? There are people out there who are truly handicapped, and through no fault of their own, and I think that giving the gigantinorms the same privileges somehow demeans them.
Then again there does seem to be a whole bucket-load of handicap spaces sometimes…….
I mean I hate how we give fatties a handicap tag, when instead we should be giving them a fat tag. Why should they get a spot right next to the store when they should park at the furthest away spot. I mean isn’t exercise what they need?
I don’t understand how people can let themselves get that huge and not think “Hey, maybe I should take this IV full of bacon out of my arm, or what should look like an arm, and go walk a few laps around the block!” Maybe you should not buy food if you are too fat to walk to that food. We have military veterans with blown off limbs but these land whales take up their parking spots and all of the scooters just because they have lost all self control.
Wally World used to only have a few handicap spots, but now they have a whole handicap parking section. Go to any of the theme parks now and they have scooter rentals for people too fat to actually walk around the parks. Now they can scoot around from donut shops to burger bars to ice cream stores and never have to walk a step and waste calories! The roller coasters now even have their own fat-row with bigger seats/harnesses so the lard mountains can ride them. We are now catering to the lowest common denominator, it is like “no fatty left behind”
Ok. I am done now. Perhaps I will conduct a poll. Yes. I am certain of it. Stay tuned.
Mother Hen
July 31, 2010 at 8:24 am
When I was a kid, fat people were so rare that to see someone morbidly obese was an occasion to stop and stare. My mom would say “They have a glandular problem, don’t be rude” and I felt chastened.
Now go to any buffet style restaurant and 80% of the diners are blubbery fatsacks whose assess drape over the edges of the chair.
When I am substituting at the schools, there are invariably at least 3 chubby kids (of the type that would be nicknamed “tubby” in a cartoon) in each class.
High schools, which should hold the paragons of youth and beauty, are even worse. Even though I could stand to lose about 50 lbs, I am “average” fat- for a high school kid!
Some stores have given expectant/new mothers their own designated space, which I agree with. There really is no handicap like toting a heavy baby bucket across a hot parking lot.
But there are many handicaps that are “self-inflicted” as it were. What about the guy who was a risk taking nutbag who finally crippled himself bungee jumping? Isn’t pregnancy a “self-inflicted” condition? Is the guy who ruins his knees because he got drunk and fell down the stairs different than the gal who ruined her knees by being 400 lbs? Both have a handicap now….
I say let the fatasses get a sticker, but make it distinct from a “real” handicap sticker. Maybe put a whale on it or something.
MadMike
July 31, 2010 at 10:16 am
You make some valid points MH. I particularly liked the idea of giving them a sticker with a whale on it.
Infidel753
July 31, 2010 at 9:05 am
MM — you fight in a lost cause, I fear. In numbers there is power, and you have but to look around you to see that the flabominations are America’s largest (in more than one sense) minority, if not yet an outright majority. As for the fast-”food” industry, their motto is Vox fattardorum, vox Dei — “The voice of stupid fat people is the voice of God” — they will never dare trouble their best customers with a slightly-longer waddle across the parking lot.
MadMike
July 31, 2010 at 10:17 am
I know Infidel. Regardless it made me feel better just to say it. I do think that the tubwallowers are likely in the majority these days, although I expect it would have to be defined.
Randal Graves
July 31, 2010 at 11:04 am
Now I feel bad for needing to lose a little around the waist.
Not really. Look, Large-Americans, I get it. Bacon fucking rules, I enjoy a nice BLT quite often, but stop it. Stop it. Stop it.
lazersedge
July 31, 2010 at 11:09 am
I live in the South where being overweight is measured in tonnage not in pounds.
osori
July 31, 2010 at 11:42 am
You’re on to something here Mike. There are people with eating disorders and psychological problems who deserve care, but there a lot of lazy MF’s too. Maybe like an addict or alky – we have people out there with a real sickness who need help, but there are far more drunks out there who just aren’t willing to control themselves.
I’m not criticizing people with a roll or several rolls around the middle, and women in particular should not feel they need to meet some stupid skinny media idealized shape. Women with womanly shapes are beautiful but for health reasons we all gotta show a little restraint at times.
Ladies out there with big butts – hell yes.
Demeur
July 31, 2010 at 2:11 pm
So here we sit typing away getting larger and larger. Well not me anyway but you know who you are.
MadMike
July 31, 2010 at 2:13 pm
LOL….I hear you