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Evidence of discrimination against fat people is widespread. In Sweden and Mexico, where including a photograph with a cv is common, researchers manipulated images to make identical fictitious job applicants seem fatter or obese. They found that they were significantly less likely to be offered interviews. Petter Lundborg of Lund University and John Cawley of Cornell University have compared the wages of thin and fat women, adjusted for education, experience and other factors, in Europe and America respectively, and found that women with obese bmis earn around 10% less than their peers.
"Ozempic has won, body positivity has lost. And I want no part of it," lamented Rachel Pick, a writer, in the Guardian.
Holy fattie
https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/08/ozempic-weight-loss-body-positivity
All this is to say I realized some time ago that I would never, ever be thin: I am simply not built that way. This realization, plus everything we already know about the pitfalls of diet culture, had made any attempt to lose weight seem both futile and like a good way to make me hate myself. So until last year, I had never even tried. My weight crept up, and up, and up. Finally, after a physical in late 2021, my blood sugar came up right on the border of the prediabetic range. It was clear: I had been playing with house money up to this point, but now, at 34, youth was no longer on my side.
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I can't wait for the ozempic class action. I'll be so grateful to have maintained a healthy body properly instead of cheating with PEDs and having my organs melt or whatever the frick ozempic is going to wind up doing to gluttonous slobs
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I don't care about how hard it was for someone to not be fat, I just don't want to see any fatties.
In some countries (e.g. brazil, china) the patent for semaglutide will already expire in two years.
Then it will be easy and cheap to not be fat, at which point there's really no reason why fatness shouldn't be taxed.
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