obesity paper
...erally set apart from thin men and women. In our society, obese people are not seen as “normal”. In some instances I have seen obese people get started at as if they had 3 heads. Sometimes I feel that fat people are prejudiced against more than people due to their racial background. Though racial prejudice is the most discussed type of prejudice, I feel weight prejudice can easily be more prevalent and even possibly more hurtful. The second point made was that overweight individuals “are stigmatized because they are held responsible for their deviant status, presumably lacking self-control and will-power…Fat people are viewed as ‘bad’ or ‘immoral’ because they do not want to change the error of their ways.” I feel this quote greatly sums up America’s view of obese people. I know many people who feel that overweight people are t...