Why is it that being overweight has so much stigma attached to it while kids practicing less healthy habits don't have to deal with being taunted over them?Don't misinterpret what I'm saying as pooh-poohing the notion that people are probably in a more healthy state when they aren't too far from their ideal weight.
However, don't you think that we've gone too far when it comes to putting such a stigma on being overweight?
Let's face the fact that overweight kids--even those whose excess pounds are caused by some kind of medical condition--put up with more of their share of taunting/bullying these days concerning their weight. Even worse is how precious little teachers seem to want to do to stop this.
One teacher (so called) who should, imo, have his teaching license revoked once actually taped a sign to the backside of a slightly chubby middle-school girl reading:
"Kick me! I'm fat!"
This young lady was on a talk show sobbing her heart out as she told her story to the audience.
Anyway, there's this big campaign to stamp out "obesity" among our children and teens and make it sound as if being overweight is the worst thing that you can be.
There are even some school-sponsored programs these days that seem to think nothing of employing dangerous decibels to teach something to students, and nobody seems to be in a hurry to turn the volume down, even though excess noise has been proven to not only cause hearing loss but, also, other health problems.
When it comes to sex education programs, the option of abstaining from sex is something that educators actually hesitate to include in the curriculum for fear of "imposing their views" on the students. This is true in spite of the fact that we're dealing with a segment of society who, while they aren't young children, still aren't full-fledged adults yet and are not very likely to be emotionally equipped to take part in a sexual relationship.
So we just keep the "politically correct" mindset that most teens are already sexually-active, so teaching them to abstain is rather "quaint," "outdated," and "unrealistic."
Even in the case of kids who smoke--where we actually DO try to discourage it--there still isn't a stigma on it like there is on being overweight.
Isn't it time that we admit that the "stigma" going along with being overweight has more to do with Hollywood than health?
Asked by AJpenlady 10 months, 1 week ago
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