Today's WTF
As usual, one of the articles that I read this morning gave me a WTF? moment. It's about businesses that cater to plus-sized customers.
Fabrey said he's been criticized for "enabling" overweight people. "They tell me, 'If you make their lives easier, they'll have less incentive to lose weight,' " Fabrey said. "We have an answer to that: First of all, we can't get you a husband or a wide airline seat or social acceptance."
So, wait. Social acceptance is hard to come by for overweight people; I get that one. And wide airline seats are sort of impossible to come by; I get that too. And then... husbands? Is it just me, or does this sentence make the assumption that his mythical customers are all single, heterosexual women who can't "get husbands" because they are fat?
Fabrey said he's been criticized for "enabling" overweight people. "They tell me, 'If you make their lives easier, they'll have less incentive to lose weight,' " Fabrey said. "We have an answer to that: First of all, we can't get you a husband or a wide airline seat or social acceptance."
So, wait. Social acceptance is hard to come by for overweight people; I get that one. And wide airline seats are sort of impossible to come by; I get that too. And then... husbands? Is it just me, or does this sentence make the assumption that his mythical customers are all single, heterosexual women who can't "get husbands" because they are fat?
posted by mo pie at 2:02 PM
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Grr. Okay, several things are really wrong with this article. While spouting off about stigmas, the author plays right into the very stigma. That's frustrating to read. Even more frustrating when *I* am the one who's being talked about so falsely. NO ONE loses weight automatically. It takes time. While we're in this process, are we supposed to just quit consuming? Lock our nasty huge selves in an underground cell somewhere until we fit the desired BMI and then resume our lives? What's the real message here? Bill Fabrey, president and founder of Amplestuff uses the royal THEY when talking about the obese, yet describes HIMSELF as obese. WTF? Also, WTF on the whole husband deal? He's obese, by his own admission. Does he think he's the exception to the rule and the other only obese people in this nation are women? Who are in fact single due to their fatness? Has he not been loved in his life, therefore assuming everyone who is fat is unloveable, just as he is? Did he not know that there is a bridal shop catering to plus-size brides to counter his vastly-accepted point? "Corpulent consumers". "Fat people buy things, too." The doublespeak is loud and clear, to anyone willing to listen. If this was meant to encourage the 64% of Americans needing to read this article, the mark has been missed.
Ahh, but ...
"Funeral directors are finding that the standard 24-inch casket does not provide adequate room for the clientele," said Tom Frisch, a salesman in Iowa for Aurora Casket Company in Indiana.
Frisch said oversized caskets have become the fastest-growing segment of the business.
In October, Batesville, another Indiana casket company, unveiled the Dimensions line of caskets to "offer a little extra room for life's final journey."
"We have to serve our clientele, and it's everybody," said Johnny Moller, staff services manager at Hamilton Funeral Home in Des Moines.So. The whole point of this article is to encourage people to try to lose some of the excess weight they're carrying around.
Okay. Yeah. Sure. I'll put that on my list of things to do.
Boy, that quieted people up!LOL!
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