Fat people are being abused, kicked, yelled at, poked, beat-up and insulted at an ever-growing rate. They already have a word for it: fattism. Now some are considering laws to protect fat people from fattism crimes.

From BBC:

“The government and the press have created an atmosphere where people think they have a legitimate right to go up to an overweight person and tell them how to live their lives,” says Ms Coupe.

“To them we are all the anonymous pictures of fat people they see in the papers and are the cause of all society’s ills, as well as a drain on the NHS. We deserve what we get. We’re not people with feelings.”

Some health professionals agree the handling of the obesity issue has increased negative attitudes towards fat people.

“It’s created a huge social stigma,” says Dr Ian Campbell, a specialist at the Overweight Clinic at University Hospital in Nottingham and honorary medical director of the charity Weight Concern.

“The result is the people who need the most help don’t seek it. They are left feeling guilty and undeserving.”

Campaigners agree, saying the constant bashing fat people receive in the press and in their everyday lives makes them stay in doors and retreat from society.

The majority of movie critics have offered their opinions on Michael Bay’s latest cinematic garbage and, as one would expect, the conclusion is that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is, indeed, cinematic garbage. Even fanboy apologists who make excuses for Michael Bay have folded their cards and proclaimed Revenge of the Fallen a pathetic movie. No real surprise.

One element of the reviews that is consistent, besides the obvious roasting of Bay’s weak directorial abilities, are the charges of racist undertones. Specifically, two characters are singled-out for criticism: Mudflap and Skids.

Here are some examples:

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Racism charges against the newly released Resident Evil 5 were predicted long ago and now it has pretty much swept across the mainstream press. People have a problem with African zombies for some reason and believe it must be racist on the part of the designers. This is all nonsense, of course, so I’m happy to see the New York Times tackle the issue in their review of the game by defusing it with a simple paragraph:

So Resident Evil 5 exposes the perhaps uncomfortable truth that blacks and Arabs can become zombies too, just like anyone else. Blacks and Arabs do not have a secret anti-zombie gene. And just like all the thousands of white, Asian and Hispanic zombies that have been dispatched in innumerable other games before them, the African zombies must also be destroyed, or at least neutralized.