Fat Discrimination

This study found that “heavy set” women face more job discrimination. DUH! How about life discrimination? But reals,
Reuters reports..
“Body mass significantly decreases women’s family income,” the study by two researchers at New York University found. “However … men experience no negative effects of body mass on economic outcomes.”
I know this is not very suprising, but how do we begin to have a discourse about this EXTREMELY pervasive and dangerous phenomenon. Fat discrimination is still one of those things that people do consciously and it is considered okay (you’ve heard it, it is just not healthy blah blah blah, at least when you are a woman, if you are a man you are just a big guy!)
Some other findings…
–a 1 percent increase in a woman’s body mass index — a measure of weight relative to height — pushes family income down by about 0.6 percent.
–a woman’s “occupational prestige,” a measure of the social status of differing jobs, also dropped as body mass rose, although to a somewhat lesser degree: 0.4 percent for each 1 percent increase in body mass
The study also found that women who are “heavy” for their height have a lesser chance of getting married and a higher chance of getting divorced. Yeah, maybe cause they are busy LIVING THEIR LIFE!!! But these statistics aren’t suprising, the demon culture of diet and beauty does not stop short of the corporate world or the dream of heteronormative union.
Finally, the researcher found that body mass does not effect men in work or in marriage and divorce. Of course not, it is a woman that is judged not by her ability to do a job, but by her height to weight ratio.