Comments on: Mississippi legislators seek to bar restaurants from serving fat people

By: Curtis

Curtis — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:17:26 +0000

I don’t think this is meant to be serious. Well, at least it shouldn’t be taken seriously. Let’s focus on the real work being done for obesity, rather than the sensationalism we see in stories like this.

By: Micaela Kimball

Micaela Kimball — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:06:13 +0000

In this “day in age” we would never EVER tell a woman, a black person, or even a homo/bi/trans/sexual that they aren’t allowed to eat in a restaurant because of their race, gender or sexuality. But apparently, some feel that we can tell fat people that they can’t… are we just blinded by our culture’s fear of fatness or have americans actually reached a point where we have become so alienated from our own bodily instincts that we not only need nutritionists but laws to tell us how to eat? whatever happened to just plain trusting what your body is telling you… Oh wait, considering all the disgusting chemical crap that is in our food, no wonder we need nutritionists and laws to govern our bodies rather than our own selves… damn, someone get me out of this country.

By: hexy

hexy — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:04:34 +0000

So, are there laws in Mississippi that say you can/should/must refuse to serve alcohol to drunk people?

Wait… are you implying that this is or isn’t the case?

Are “no serving booze to drunk people” laws not the norm in the US?

By: Marksman2000

Marksman2000 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:46:05 +0000

Jesus, why not just propose incarcerating everyone with a BMI over 25 in a state-run fat camp?

Huckabee gets in the Oval Office and you’ll see it.

By: Sniper

Sniper — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:52:53 +0000

Even apart from the fatphobia, I must protest legislation as performance art.

Hah! But I think it is about fatphobia. This is a trial balloon to see if they can get away with this kind of discrimination. Next it will be a law screwing fat people on health care – something “reasonable” people can agree to.

When other people can be directly harmed by a person being fat, I’m sure it will be all over the news.

Haven’t you heard? Every day thousands of assholes are mortally offended and grossed out by the sight of fat people minding their own business. It’s an epidemic!

By: Jovan1984

Jovan1984 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:28:31 +0000

This proposed law is blatant discrimination, and there is no justification for it, even if your state is the most overweight. How about we bar lawmakers who discriminate against fat people from running for public office?

By: Alara Rogers

Alara Rogers — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:21:05 +0000

Smoking harms other people directly. When other people can be directly harmed by a person being fat, I’m sure it will be all over the news.

By: Rad Geek People’s Daily 2008-02-02 – Small-government conservatives #2

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:40:09 +0000

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By: piny

piny — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:37:15 +0000

He doesn’t expect it to be enforced, of course. It’s a deliberate overstatement, like saying “this problem is SO bad, maybe we should consider these DESPERATE MEASURES. OK maybe we shouldn’t go that far, but still this is BAD!”

Even apart from the fatphobia, I must protest legislation as performance art.

By: the fshk blog » quickies: dumb state legislation edition

the fshk blog » quickies: dumb state legislation edition — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:07:47 +0000

[...] + Mississippi wants to keep fat people from eating. (Shapely Prose has a good round up of opinions on that. See also Feministe. [...]