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...ecstasy or transcendental insight. For most of our lives, it's a shambling, jury-rigged affair, filled with innate tensions, contradictions, broken springs. Hollywood could help by promoting better uses for the body, like real sex, by which I mean sex between people who are often wrinkled and overweight and sometimes even fond of each other. The health meanies could relax and acknowledge that one of the most marvelous functions of the body is, in fact, to absorb small doses of whipped cream and other illicit substances...
...usage, the < dictionary offers comfort to very short people (though not very tall ones) with heightism ("discrimination or prejudice based on a person's stature, esp. discrimination against short people"); and to very fat people (but not very thin ones) with weightism ("bias or discrimination against people who are overweight"). Omitted, fortunately, are such high-fad content terms as lookism (bias against people because of their appearance), ableism (bias against the handicapped) or differently abled (alternative to handicapped...
...same time, though, the Army encountered major difficulties in deploying its National Guard troops. Several thousand Guard members on the rosters could not be sent to the gulf because they had not attended basic training. Some were too old, others overweight and out of shape. A full 5% suffered from dental problems that needed treatment...
...same day in 1989 that American Airlines gave flight attendant Sherri Cappello her 25-year pin, they fired her for being 11 lbs. overweight. Last week Cappello, now the vice president of American's flight-attendants union, watched with satisfaction as the airline was forced to lift the limits that had cost her a job. After lawsuits by the union and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, American agreed to revise its standards. Under the settlement, the company's 1959 weight requirements will be relaxed, and employees will be able to weigh more as they age. Violators will be required...
...dispute at American was essentially about attractiveness. But certain employees, such as fire fighters and police officers, are monitored because their jobs demand physical fitness. Many employers contend that overweight workers drive up medical costs. Says U-Haul International spokesperson Melora Felts Foley: "The people who are responsible for the majority of skyrocketing health costs are those who use tobacco and those who have weight problems." But some health experts disagree. Says Dr. Albert Stunkard, an obesity specialist at the University of Pennsylvania: "The extent to which overweight people have difficulty in obtaining work goes far beyond what...