tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559850219424554239.post2970733285694921975..comments2023-09-25T11:48:08.067-04:00Comments on Unapologetically Fat: Scottish social workers threaten to take fat children from the homeJoGeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16093660035883346402noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559850219424554239.post-25021501084892134032008-03-24T14:12:00.000-04:002008-03-24T14:12:00.000-04:00What I want to know, is what happens when the chil...What I want to know, is what happens when the children are taken and then its found that no matter how little they are given to eat or how much exercise they are made to do...that they still don't lose all the weight and become perfect little kids. with extra perfect because they got them away from their horrible parents that were making them fat. <BR/><BR/>Lots of things make me angry, especially with discrimination against fat people. But of all the things that go on this one really pisses me off. I don't even have kids, but may there be a special hell for anyone who threatens them (or me about them) like this when/if I do have them. I will surely send them to it.Steviehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16695539214799810525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1559850219424554239.post-21045512887153148992008-03-24T10:56:00.000-04:002008-03-24T10:56:00.000-04:00This doesn't surprise me in the least. Britain is...This doesn't surprise me in the least. Britain is very size phobic, and in the area of Scotland where I lived, being beyond thin was the norm. How thin? Well, Kate Moss would have been on a diet - and how I wish I were joking when I typed that. I saw someone nearly drive off the road whilst staring at two teenagers in miniskirts who were anorexic (there's a very clear physical difference between 'I'm genetically this way' and 'I look like I could have come straight from Dachau, 1942'.<BR/><BR/>As a fat woman there, it was decidedly scary. Thankfully, as a foreigner, nobody bothered me too much about it apart from my MIL.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com