Comments on: Is weight the new race? http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/07/17/is-weight-the-new-race/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:58:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: kelly http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/07/17/is-weight-the-new-race/#comment-12750 kelly Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:50:24 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/07/17/is-weight-the-new-race/#comment-12750 i must say this post really stuck a cord with me,because i for one can say without a doubt that lookism is a some what new form of discrimination,so i can without a doubt say that it is "the new racism",from personal experience today's society associate having "good looks" with social status and upward mobility and i must say it has become ramped and totally out of hand to say the least, it affects everything from your career opportunities,to how good the service you get at a restaurant,to how your treated in certain social circles and it transcends all racial,cultural,and socio-economic lines,so i think racism and lookism parallels greatly,and i also feel that lookism is the least addressed topic in an open forum as opposed to racism and its a topic that should be further explored,and if we don't i think its going to get worse,and it will quickly become a far worse phenomenon than racism if we don't address it. i must say this post really stuck a cord with me,because i for one can say without a doubt that lookism is a some what new form of discrimination,so i can without a doubt say that it is “the new racism”,from personal experience today’s society associate having “good looks” with social status and upward mobility and i must say it has become ramped and totally out of hand to say the least, it affects everything from your career opportunities,to how good the service you get at a restaurant,to how your treated in certain social circles and it transcends all racial,cultural,and socio-economic lines,so i think racism and lookism parallels greatly,and i also feel that lookism is the least addressed topic in an open forum as opposed to racism and its a topic that should be further explored,and if we don’t i think its going to get worse,and it will quickly become a far worse phenomenon than racism if we don’t address it.

]]> By: sabrina http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/07/17/is-weight-the-new-race/#comment-12349 sabrina Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:10:01 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/07/17/is-weight-the-new-race/#comment-12349 I don't know about fat being the "new" race...but it does seem like the combination of the two can lead to people becoming exceptionally nasty, rude and mean. It's not enough for people to insult someone by calling black and ugly, now they gotta say you're black, FAT, and ugly! An example of this sort of thing in the extreme? Right now, in Australia, there is a rather sordid murder inquest going on right now regarding the death of an Australian woman of color named Dianne Brimble. Back in 2002, she was drugged, sexually assaulted, and left for dead on a cruiseship. There are eight men whom the police say are "of interest" in this crime. One of the men was quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald as making the following mean comment about the deceased woman during the police investigation: "She smelt, she was black, and she was ugly," and he also said he "didn't talk to anyone over 60 kilos" (approx 132 lbs). If those kinds of comments aren't sexist, sizist,racist and basically dehumanizing, I don't know what is! Right now, the Aussies are calling it a rape and murder, but based on those comments, I'd go a step further and call it a hate crime! I hope those guys stay in jail for life for what they did to that poor woman. I don’t know about fat being the “new” race…but it does seem like the combination of the two can lead to people becoming exceptionally nasty, rude and mean. It’s not enough for people to insult someone by calling black and ugly, now they gotta say you’re black, FAT, and ugly!

An example of this sort of thing in the extreme? Right now, in Australia, there is a rather sordid murder inquest going on right now regarding the death of an Australian woman of color named Dianne Brimble. Back in 2002, she was drugged, sexually assaulted, and left for dead on a cruiseship. There are eight men whom the police say are “of interest” in this crime. One of the men was quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald as making the following mean comment about the deceased woman during the police investigation: “She smelt, she was black, and she was ugly,” and he also said he “didn’t talk to anyone over 60 kilos” (approx 132 lbs). If those kinds of comments aren’t sexist, sizist,racist and basically dehumanizing, I don’t know what is! Right now, the Aussies are calling it a rape and murder, but based on those comments, I’d go a step further and call it a hate crime! I hope those guys stay in jail for life for what they did to that poor woman.

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