{"id":4242,"date":"2009-05-17T17:16:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T21:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2009-05-17T17:16:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T21:16:24","slug":"blimpophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/blimpophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Blimpophobia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as mandatory tolerance increases for every conceivable moral perversity, so mandatory intolerance is increasing for every physical foible: smoking; not wearing seatbelts; not wearing bicycle helmets and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/news\/story.html?id=1605323\" target=\"_blank\">being too fat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bias against obese people increasing, study says<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yale University scientists who searched through medical studies on weight bias published between January 2000 and May 2008 found:<\/p>\n<p>More than half of 620 doctors surveyed view obese patients as &#8220;awkward,&#8221; &#8220;unattractive,&#8221; &#8220;ugly&#8221; and &#8220;non-compliant.&#8221; A third went further, painting the obese as weak-willed, sloppy and lazy. Even dieticians, personal trainers and doctors who specialize in treating obesity exhibit fat phobia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There must be a correlation. I suspect that humanity has a natural inclination to condemn &#8211; one which must be indulged for a happy, balanced life. Since little remains that can be condemned as ethically wrong \u2013 other than telling someone what they are doing is ethically wrong \u2013 we have to take it out on the fatties, smokers and non-exercisers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as mandatory tolerance increases for every conceivable moral perversity, so mandatory intolerance is increasing for every physical foible: smoking; not wearing seatbelts; not wearing bicycle helmets and now being too fat: Bias against obese people increasing, study says Yale &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/blimpophobia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[2225],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-correctness","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}