EAllusion wrote:.... It turns out women are much more likely to face discrimination based on weight than men in hiring decisions. Like, nearly twice as likely. You are dead wrong on this front. ...... And, it depressingly turns out, the morbidly obese of both sexes face rather severe discrimination in hiring decisions. This remains true in high skill jobs that require extensive education and low skill jobs just the same. ....
..... This sucks. Your sense that you've got it worse as a man is the total opposite of reality, though. However bad you think you've got it, just know that a woman in the same situation is, on average, even worse off.
You also have a hunch that women are more likely to discriminate based on appearance than men because they are a bunch of vain bitches. Why don't you search google scholar and find out if that hunch is borne out by the data?
1. I never said they didn't. I was speaking of women in front offices hiring front office people, in contrast to men who don't care as much about a fat man.
I also made clear that fat people in general suffer from hiring discrimination and that fat women also experience it when especially being hired by a man because the man will more often than not pick the more attractive candidate.
Strawman.
2. Can't be dead wrong about something I didn't argue.
Falsehood.
3. Yes, said as much....
4. Don't agree. Fat people at the lower skill end are far more tolerated. But, it does occur still certainly.
5. I never said "I have it worse as a man"..... Stop putting words into my mouth. I did say when it comes to women who hire for office work, then yes, as a fat man I have a harder time being hired, in contrast to a man that might hire a fat man for office work.
Strawman
6. I don't think I agree with that..... Fat Man or Fat Woman..... I think fat women are generally far more excepted in the work place and hired compared to fat men. One exception might be higher skilled jobs where people tend to hire more professional looking people, so skinny is the rule. Office jobs for example are easy to get for fat women. Fat men often end up losers at home sitting on the couch/computer on welfare etc. because of it, while very few fat women end up losers on a couch watching TV etc. and don't work unless they have children which would be a more common exception to that.
7. I never said that. I said a possible reason why OFFICE WOMEN might discriminate more against a fat man but not a skinny man is because women in general focus more on appearances to the public, so a fat man doesn't look at good as a fat women might which they would potentially tolerate more. Though there is likely some discrimination toward fat women also by office women for the front office.
Anyway.....
