Scientologists still win the award for "Craziest beliefs," but these people are giving them a run (or fast waddle) for their money. It's a survey from some Fat Activisits (yes....). For the lulz, I will fill it out.
SURVEY: Please read the following statements. Write for corresponding
statement number whether you agree (A), disagree (D), or are neutral
(N), that these statements represent appropriate causes for how you
personally view the fat activist movement.
1. Federally-funded health care should be available to all Americans.
Neutral - it should be, but it'll be hard to practically pull it off.
2. All general practitioners (also known as family physicians or
primary care physicians) should be required to take a course in "Health
at Every Size" in order to obtain a medical degree.
Disagree - you ever see a "healthy" 400 pound person that WASN'T a weightlifter or bodybuilder?
3. All paediatricians (doctors specializing in children) should be
required to take a course in "Health at Every Size" in order to obtain
a medical degree.
Disagree - I don't think that it's responsible to encourage children to eat and eat and eat and tell them that they'll still be healthy. It just doesn't work that way.
4. Physicians of all specialties, including surgeons and psychiatrists,
should be required to take a course in "Health at Every Size" in order
to obtain a medical degree.
Disagree - I still don't think it's responsible at all. Was the half-ton man in Mexico healthy? No.
5. Doctors who have already obtained a medical degree should be
required to take a course in "Health at Every Size" in order to retain
their medical licenses.
Disagree - Not responsible behavior at all. There is no way you could possibly teach this, or even PRESENT it to medical schools without substantial unbiased scientific research without being laughed out of the building.
6. A doctor who requires fat patients to lose weight in order to be
eligible for certain surgical procedures under his or her care should
be brought to a ethics committee for possible disciplinary action.
Disagree - It makes the surgery easier, since there is less fat to cut through. Jesus, why do I even need to explain that?
7. A doctor who requires fat patients to lose weight in order to be
eligible for certain surgical procedures under his or her care should
be removed of his or her license to practice medicine.
Disagree - This violates nothing.
8. A patient who requests a gastric bypass surgery or other bariatric
surgery should first be required to undergo a psychological evaluation
before he or she undergoes the surgery.
Neutral - It IS a surgery that requires lifestyle changes, and it seems fair to sit a patient down to make sure that they're away with it.
9. A federal health care system should not cover gastric bypass surgery or other bariatric surgeries for citizens.
Disagree - Then it wouldn't exactly be universal health care, now would it?
10. A federal health care system should cover reversal surgeries of gastric bypass or other bariatric procedures for citizens.
Disagree - WHAT?!?!
11. No gastric bypass or other bariatric medical surgeries should be legally performed in the United States.
Disagree - Do I even need to explain why? There are people who need it and want it.
12. No public schools should be required to produce medical "report
cards" of students for their parents including weight and estimation of
body fat.
Disagree - Why not? Being overweight is a problem and could mess up their development.
13. No public schools should be allowed to produce medical "report
cards" of students for their parents including weight and estimation of
body fat.
Disagree - Again, why not?
14. Public schools should be required to have a section in health class on "Health at Every Size."
Disagree - This "Health At Every Size" stuff is bull. You can't be 5'2", weigh 500 pounds, and claim that you're healthy.
15. Weight loss camps, or fat camps, for children should be outlawed.
Disagree - What if the kids WANT to go? What if they want to lose weight and need a support system? Is wanting to lose weight a horrible thing?
16. Commercial diet programs (e.g., Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers,
Slimfast) should be subject to tough criminal prosecution if it is
believed these programs are misleading the public.
Disagree - They aren't misleading. Some people really do lose weight on them. I think Jenny Craig is kinda bull, but it works for some people. Same for the others. It works for some people. Just because it isn't universally effective doesn't mean it's misleading.
17. Commercial diet programs (e.g., Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Slimfast) should be outlawed.
Disagree - Why?
18. Clothing stores should be required to charge the same price for
plus sized clothing as they do for non-plus sized clothing of the same
pattern.
Disagree - They actually DO cost more to make.
19. If one lives in a community where designated hate crimes give
longer prison sentences than non-hate crimes, a man or woman who
assaults a fat individual because that individual was fat should be
charged with a hate crime just as if he or she had assaulted a racial
or sexual minority with hateful intentions.
Neutral - It isn't fair to discriminate against people, but the morbidly obese (in a fair number of cases) brought it on themselves.
20. A stricter school disciplinary sentence should be reserved for a
child who assaults another child based on fat prejudice versus a child
who assaults another child based on no obvious prejudice (e.g., a child
who takes another's lunch money because "He is fat and doesn't need the
food," versus, "I just wanted his money.")
Disagree - That's biased in favor of the fat kid, and gives preferential treatment. What if some kid stole my lunch money because they didn't like me (and it happened)? That has an obvious prejudice, so does the kid get off lighter because I'm not fat?
21. Local-government or state-government sponsored community events
promoted to improve physical activity within the community should never
be allowed to also promote the reduction of obesity.
Disagree - There's nothing wrong with reducing obesity. It's actually bad for you to be obese, believe it or not! On top of which, you may as well just say ban physical activity. What if all of those obese people bought into that anti-fat propaganda!? BRAINWASHING!!! Jeez, people.
22. A parent who refuses to place upper restrictions on his or her
child's food intake should never be liable for criminal prosecution for
this.
Disagree - That's child abuse, letting a kid become morbidly obese is just horrible.
23. Articles in newspapers or magazines or reports on news broadcasts tying fat to health conditions (and
loss of fat to preventing or curing those health conditions) without
any cited sources should be culturally (but not necessarily criminally)
considered "hate speech."
Disagree - There is nothing hateful about it. It's truth.
24. Articles in newspapers or magazines or reports on news broadcasts
tying fat to health conditions (and loss of fat to preventing or curing
those health conditions) without any mention of the alternate viewpoint
on the matter should be culturally (but not necessarily criminally)
considered "hate speech."
Disagree - Again, not hateful.
25. There should be a recognized month remembering the fat activist
movement similar to the recognition of Black History Month, Hispanic
Heritage Month, etc.
Disagree - Oh. My. God. Black History Month and Hispanic Heritage Month are recognized because of the good things those ethnicities did for the world. When Fat Activism is on par with other races, then we'll talk.
Oh my god. Fat activists. Look them up sometime...it's horrifying.
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