Big Girl Blues

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Fat academics need to be more vocal in calls for… larger desks or substitutions for tables and chairs, greater ease in access to elevators… larger bathrooms, chairs without arms, and larger auditorium seating.

Writing in the pages of Inside Higher Ed, sociology student and “self-identified fat woman” Bobbi Reidinger bemoans the hardships of the chunky would-be educator.

31 Replies to “Big Girl Blues”

  2. Chairs with arms I can see, desks even. How bloody fat do you have to be to need a special elevator? Do you have to increase its capacity to carry weight or volume, or both? Are the floors and cables specially reinforced? Bigger doors?

    God help me if I recommend the stairs.

  3. Ok, SDA’ers, let’s not post those cute, snappy jokes and double-entendres, such as “she brings a lot of heft to her arguments”, or “she is confronting a whale-sized problem”. We should also avoid cutting terms such as “flabby”, “rather-rotund” or”cellulite-rich”. Jokes of these sorts are unnecessary and do little to promote constructive dialogue.

  5. I have sympathy for people who struggle with their weight but making it easier or more acceptable to be grossly overweight is not the answer. When you start outgrowing the furniture, it’s a sign to seek medical help not a sign to appeal to the government to increase the size of …. everything.

  6. It would probably be more beneficial to her to do a bit of research into why a near majority of north americans are obese, diabetic or near diabetic with what is being now identified as metabolic syndrome. Sixty years of faulty medical advice (some of it maliciious) and corporate malfeasance by drug and food companies has driven this trend. Not as much fun as playing the victim card I suppose. I hope she choses the former. Cheers, Eric

    1. I know why I am quite overweight. I am a gluttonous, slothful, and lazy. If I got off my ass and put my metabolism to work I would be just fine. I am overweight because I got old but 100% of it is on me.

      1. That may be true, but my comment was to the overweight young lady in question. She probably has been told the ‘calories in, calories out’ system and has found out (by experience or intuition) that the old ‘diet and exercise’ formula does not work. She should read or you-tube some up to date science instead of trying to inflict her sociological claptrap on the rest of us. Cheers, Eric

  7. Put some kind of cost estimate in enlarging all physical assets used by large people, fat or not. The easiest example is airplane seating. The simple limitation on fuselage width the size of seats. Do airplane manufacturers redesign into wider body aircraft or do large people buy 2 seats? The impact on ticket pricing is not insignificant.

    The subject is presented as one of ‘fat’ people but the issue extends to others who are simply bigger people. Does a
    6′ 10″ basketball player have the right to a larger seat?

  8. She’s entitled to reasonable accommodation.

    Someone in a fork lift should follow her around.

    1. You can’t imagine the fury, when in the middle of an argument with a chubby SJW, I look at her and say. ‘You’re eating good’

    2. I heard this at a cowboy poetry gathering years ago (can’t remember the author’s name)
      The Dudette
      She must have weighed 400 pounds
      If she weighed an ounce
      A man could get all crosseyed
      Watching all that blubber bounce

      We finally got her horseback
      (it took a front-end loader)
      But by then she’d worked up quite a sweat
      And was giving off an odor.

  9. and do we now convert B-52’s to passenger aircraft, and sell tickets only to porkers as passengers on those re-designed porker planes????

  10. The Germans and Japanese did EXTENSIVE multi-year research during WW2 and proved conclusively that people definitely lose a LOT of weight when they don’t eat very much or very often. Perhaps she should give that a try instead of hitting up others to pay for accommodating her surplus tonnage. Or …become a sumo wrestler where her size would be an advantage.
    Do one or the other, but quit whining.

    1. I remember a syndicated columnist named Dr. Gifford Jones who pointed that out once, must have been about 20 years ago. The severely overweight – who were just starting to be foolishly proud of their condition – claimed he wanted to put them in concentration camps.
      He didn’t, but it would have worked – just a more humane gentle version.:)

    2. They’re rerunning that research right now in Venezuela, Davers6. Getting the same confirmation.

  11. Been thinking cry-yie-aye-yie me a river!

    At least these peoplekind can lose weight. Try being height challenged. (A person must be 4 feet 10 inches or shorter to be considered legally handicapped) There are ‘small’ issues and chances of injury with reaching for things, climbing, and falling. Never mind sartorial flair, or lack of it on occasion, in comparison with statuesque types.

    Blah, heck, I’m outta here!

    https://youtu.be/y8yvnqHmFds

  15. She doesn’t look grossly obese. Just a nasty creature. “She is a very liberal person and in this class, there is a lot of controversial issues discussed. Don’t share her views? YOU ARE WRONG! Beware of this professor.” – from Rate My Professors.

  16. Size 15 feet, hard to find decent shoes and boots, constantly tripping on things others never would.
    WHERE IS MY COMPENSATION MONEY……………………

      1. scar, retailers can’t afford to have their liquidity tied up in box store stock for items that are rare sales these days, especially after the crash of 2008. At least Amazon has what you’re looking for. And yes, I do know that shoes need to fit and feel right.

  19. Actually, CT, there is ample evidence that many airlines have been reducing their seat sizes in steerage so that they are uncomfortable for anyone above a size 10 or 12. Add to that the male next seat who figures he can totally appropriate the armrest(s) next to him, and the bitch in front who immediately puts her seat to full recline and refuses to move (unless forced to) so one is essentially trapped for the whole trip; this becomes a voyage from Hades. Have walked off a couple of these flights with legs so swollen they resembled tree stumps and glad nothing worse happened.

  20. Anybody else notice that the photograph of her, that accompanies the article, is taken in such a manner to minimize how fat she looks?
    Close cropped, vertical, looking up at the camera, rather than a full face to the camera shot.
    Seems she’s fat shaming herself.

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