Public colleges now offering "fat studies" courses

[ShootSpeeders]

More ridiculous and wasteful liberal arts BS. Colleges should teach STEM only.

The Next Big Thing? ‘Fat Studies’ Courses, Fat Awareness Groups Spread Across Universities

jan 11 2016 Described as an “emerging academic field” that focuses on combating “weightism,” “fat stigma,” and the “weight based oppression” of fat people, “fat studies” courses are popping up on college campuses across the country.

Typically found in women and gender studies departments, fat studies courses don’t study obesity as a leading cause of death in America but rather approach fatness as a “social justice” issue, and usually focus on “fat liberation” movements and activism as ways to combat the “stigma” attached to obesity.

During the winter 2016 term (happening now), Oregon State University is offering a three-credit course simply titled “Fat Studies.” According to the university website, the course “Frames weight-based oppression as a social justice issue, exploring forms of activism used to counter weightism perpetuated throughout various societal institutions.”

 

[aaronleland]

They should offer "*** studies" so I don't have to read another Shootspeeders thread.

 

[blastoff]

Fat studies? Like a whole fat curriculum?

Go to any university and observe students in classrooms, lecture halls, dorms, cafeterias, etc. and you'll see fat students all over the place. Study complete.

It could all be covered in a twenty minute or so seminar.

1. Watch what you eat.
2. Get regular exercise.

Instead, these blobs will sit on their fat asses in classes and learn nothing except a whole host of trendy politically correct words and phrases that make them feel better.



"Hon, does this dress make me look fat?"

"No, dear, it doesn't. It's all the fat you stuff into it that makes you look fat."