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In reply to the discussion: The birth of Girtherism [View all]WhiskeyGrinder
(22,307 posts)41. I definitely hear where you're coming from.
He's fragile and I'm not.
The problem is, we have lots of fat friends and allies who are fragile, and anti-fat rhetoric hurts them. In addition, anti-fat rhetoric reinforces anti-fat biases in society, which hurt all fat people, fragile or no. It's similar to when Obama was president -- the right and its allies used racist rhetoric to hurt Obama. He is not a fragile person. But the increased rhetoric certainly hurt society as a whole, and made it harder for all BIPOC.
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Yeah, but he's probably got hamberders and KFC and cans of Diet Coke stashed
smirkymonkey
May 2020
#7
My guess for Rump is 6 feet 1 inches tall, and around 20 and a half stones (287 pounds)
Celerity
May 2020
#8
He should be encouraged to do what Pooty did. Ride a horse shirt less and show the world what kind
Alwaysna
May 2020
#6
I want to see the long form, certified DOT ticket from freshly calibrated scales.
Hermit-The-Prog
May 2020
#11
A person's weight has nothing to do with their character, actions or morals.
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2020
#22
Expressing triumphant hilarity because Nancy Pelosi used a nonmedical term to describe
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2020
#38
Thinking about stopping the practice of mocking people for physical traits that our friends and
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2020
#27
I'm a scientist working in the pharmaceutical field. I have worked on lipid physiology...
NNadir
May 2020
#32
I'm sorry to hear that you view mocking as an expression of care and the people in your life
WhiskeyGrinder
May 2020
#39
I'm not sorry. I have a sense of humor and the people I love know that. There are, of course...
NNadir
May 2020
#40