UCLA medical school’s mandatory health equity class teaches students that weight loss is a “hopeless endeavor” and that “ob*sity” is a slur “used to exact violence on fat people.”
The full syllabus has shocked prominent doctors — the former dean of Harvard Medical School.
All first year students are assigned an essay by Marquisele Mercedes, a self-described “fat liberationist,” who “describes how weight came to be pathologized and medicalized in racialized terms” and offers guidance on “resisting entrenched fat oppression,” per the syllabus.
Mercedes claims that “ob*sity” is a slur “used to exact violence on fat people”— particularly “Black, disabled, trans, poor fat people”—and offers a “fat ode to care” that students are instructed to analyze, taking note of which sections “most resonate with you.”
The assignment shocked Jeffrey Flier, the former dean of Harvard Medical School and one of the world’s foremost experts on obesity, who said the curriculum “promotes extensive and dangerous misinformation.”
UCLA “has centered this required course on a socialist/Marxist ideology that is totally inappropriate,” said @jflier, who reviewed the full syllabus and several of the assigned readings. “As a longstanding medical educator, I found this course truly shocking.”
Look at the bright side … if we stop dismissing fat people … then perhaps all those fat, ugly, girls will stop “transitioning” into “men”? Perhaps if our culture starts appreciating the FUPA … fat girls will accept themselves … as girls?
The Democrats’ woke treatment for all heavy people suffering from medical problems?
Give them a dozen donuts.
“…Marquisele Mercedes, a self-described “fat liberationist,””
Hey girlie. How’s your knees doing? Bit of grinding going on when you walk? Maybe some arthritis?
There’s a reason for that…
Just a little bit of narcissism to go with “her” other problems of being unable to put the fork down, and an utter lack of self control that “she” demands everyone else celebrate.
Yeah a life all forked up.
Consider that even if there were men who, for some bizarre reason, wanted to date obese females (and there are) …. she is an obvious glutton. Could you afford to feed her?
On average, obese people need and use and more of everything. And they sweat a lot.
Who gives a crap?
Yeah well not here.
Not enough it would seem.
“Marquisele Mercedes” was pretty much all I needed to read to know who and what this person is.
I hear it’s also the name of the new Mercedes EV.
As often a hockey coach says it best – in this case Jim Schonfield to Don Koharski.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXpcb5aTnPk
If someone wishes to be obese, who are we to stop them?
Fully impacted bullshirt. Expected.
That’s probably not a class you want to enroll in to pick up chicks…
One would enroll to pick up whales.
ferfcuksake, is it NOT the reason there is such obesity is the ABUNDANCE including FOOD which at some point acts like a byproduct of the production cycle?
is that process not DOMINATED by the patriarchalnormative capitalist bla bla blas?
so LARDASSES, quitcherbytchin and stop stuffing yerselves.
p.s. need a program here!!!!!! who are the bad guys. tell me !!!! lve lost track!!!
Just like the serial, systemic, plagerizing, racist fired President of Harvard, Claudine Gay’s resignation letter included the word “vituperation”.
This chick’s resignation letter will have “peanut butter cup blizzard” in it somewhere, pretty sure.
I’ll wait for the porker, unDORK to weigh in on this!
Short people got no body and fat people got too much body.
Too much food in the body makes short people fat.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and make a prediction before I read the article that the author is morbidly obese and destined to die young.
Edited: yup.
No credit? I posted this in reader’s tips several days ago. Sheesh!