I was watching a British documentary about hospitals/ambulances now needing to accommodate more obese people (the link to the video is here and I recommend watching it if you have the time, since it's an hour long).
Many of the paramedics, nurses, and doctors are lovely when they're dealing with the fat patients, but to be honest I have no idea how they do it. These patients eat themselves into a disability, have to be helped with everything, moan and complain constantly and are a drain on health care. I'm probably heartless, but my ideal scenario for health care would be to give fat people one chance to lose weight. If they don't do it, they have to pay for all health-related expenses out of their own pocket.
Anyone have any thoughts about the demand fat people put on hospitals? I've heard plenty of horror stories from nurses and paramedics who have to deal with them and physically carry them around, and I was wondering if anybody had any similar experiences or general thoughts.
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[–] HarpoonTheFatty 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
Feminism is not the main driver of obesity and certainly doesn't explain why there is a massive increase in fat fuck men either. Women are not being brainwashed into thinking fat is OK, this is just the internet and tumblr, the real world is very different.
Fat is not a feminist issue, don't blame a social movement for the stupidity and laziness of humans. People are fat because they're weak and greedy. The cities are too congested to ride bikes and walk places so everyone takes cars, buses, trains etc. We have more desk jobs than we do manual labour ones in developed countries. It's pretty obvious why people got fat, because it's easy to. Some strands of feminism may try and blame men for the ideal body shape, but that's just cackhanded logic and and anyone sensible knows that it is completely bullshit. Fat fucks exists in both genders - male and female - you can't blame feminism for all of that.