Trucker gets fired for being obese and refusing to lose weight: ‘I told him until I was red in the face to exercise, diet, do ANYTHING to make an effort.’

His wife is angry at him, and she has a right to be.  It’s a sad reality that there are some things you can’t do if you’re obese. This ranges from fitting on a roller coaster to running a marathon. When you’re overweight, you can get shut out of a lot of things in society, …
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‘You Wanna be on Top?’: Why Netflix’s ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Documentary Will Not Be The Exposé We Desire

They’re just going to rehash it for no good reason. For 15 years, supermodel Tyra Banks hosted the world’s most popular modeling competition. America’s Next Top Model was a reality show in which aspiring amateur models competed to see who had the most potential to work as a high-fashion model. The contestants competed in a …
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Parents refuse to buy glasses for their 16-year-old daughter because they think eating certain foods will heal her eyes: ‘My dad said I just need to get off my phone to heal my eyes.’

In what world does eating carrots actually heal somebody’s bad eyesight?  Some people resist getting glasses because «technically, their eyesight isn’t that bad.» I’ve never understood this as someone who used to see everything blurry, but now gets to enjoy the world’s clarity through two beautiful contact lenses. I remember when I first got glasses …
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Wife discovers husband is cheating after seeing a 120 pound person weighed in on his scale at 12:30 AM when she wasn’t home: ‘He weighs 190 pounds’

The easiest way to avoid getting caught cheating is not to cheat. However, many people are unwilling to do so, so they try various methods to avoid being seen with another person, allowing them to continue cheating without consequences. They drive to a part of town where they know their friends and family don’t frequent. …
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60-year-old mom flips out after daughter forbids her from babysitting her child because of her weight: ‘She can’t walk 2 city blocks without sitting, can’t do any stairs, can’t fly unless she buys two seats’

Judgmental as the world can be when a person is not the size that is expected of them, it cannot be denied that there are usually physical limitations on what an individual can do when they reach a certain number on the scale. One of the sacrifices of being beyond a certain weight is that …
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Cruel swimming coach mocks 16-year-old swimmer for being slow after 2 month break following his fathers passing: ‘It’s a pity your dad couldn’t have [passed] a little later to save you from this practice’

We all had that one teacher or coach who was randomly cruel to us for no reason. I will never forget my nefarious middle school P.E. teacher, Coach Wallace. For the first six weeks of the school year, he seemed to be just fine, but things took a turn for the worse when I got …
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Doctor calls 14-month-old 72nd percentile weight baby ‘obese’ based on appearance on his medical forms, stuns his mother: ‘He is 23lbs’

Infancy is the only time in your life when being fat is considered a good thing. If you’re a fat baby, everyone and their mother is obsessed with how chunky and cute you are, but if you’re fat at any other stage of life, you’re a scourge to humanity and must be punished to the …
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29-year-old boyfriend tells 24-year-old girlfriend she looks like she’s 4 months pregnant, freaks out when she retorts that he looks 8 months pregnant: ‘He said he will starve himself for 2 weeks now because of that comment’

It’s widely believed that you shouldn’t dish what you can’t take. That doesn’t apply to lactose intolerant folks serving a cheesy meal to their loved ones, but rather for jokes and playful insults. If you’re going to have an edgy sense of humor that casts aside political correctness, you shouldn’t be crying when someone throws …
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Cruel lady asks coworker if she’s gained weight after she lost 70 pounds, gets offended when she calls that comment snarky: ‘I’m sorry if your fishing for compliments strategy didn’t work on me’

There are a lot of social rules in place about when, where, and how you can comment on somebody’s weight. A general rule of thumb is that it’s impolite to point out if someone has gained weight, but it’s usually acceptable to compliment someone on losing it. Even positively mentioning weight loss can be a …
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‘She’s going to end up obese’: Stepdad pressures wife to control his 5’4 150 lb 15-year-old stepdaughter’s weight, mom claims it’s unnecessary because she exercises 100 hours a week

Weight is an extremely sensitive issue with teenagers. They already have so much pressure and responsibility at such a young age, and they shouldn’t have to worry about counting calories or being the perfect weight.  The population as a whole feels very conflicted about how we should «deal with» overweight children. Sending your kid to …
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