Students at the University of Maryland will have the chance to “engage fatness” next term as part of a “Fat Studies” course offered by the school's American Studies department.
“Introduction to Fat Studies” will not engage “fatness” as a social or medical problem, according to a syllabus for the course posted online. Instead, the course will approach fatness as “an aspect of human diversity, experience, and identity.”
The syllabus goes on to say that the course “will function as an introduction to the recent (and growing) field known as Fat Studies.” The field of Fat Studies, the syllabus claims, is “a field that is not concerned with the eradication of fatness, but with offering a sustained critique of anti-fat sentiment, discrimination, and policy.”
One assignment for the course requires students to read three articles with the tag “Fatshion” from xoJane.com, a website “where women go to be their unabashed selves.”
Another assignment requires students to “explore the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance site.” The NAAFA, according to its website, aims to “provide fat people with the tools for self-empowerment through public education, advocacy, and support.”
Other reading material for the course includes an article titled “My wedding was perfect – and I was fat as hell the whole time,” and the “Fat Liberation Manifesto,” which labels diet books, diet foods, and diet doctors as “special enemies.”
The syllabus also includes a quote from self-described “fat activist” Marilyn Wann, claiming that Fat Studies “requires skepticism about weight-related beliefs that are popular, powerful, and prejudicial.”
The instructor for the course is fourth-year Ph.D. student Cassy Griff, who claims to focus her work “on discourses of excess as they apply to fat and Latina/o bodies.”
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7041
>>35104566
OPERATOR DETECTED
>>35104598
You got me.
> Dean relocates the class to the top floor with no elevator
> Ferguson Level Chimpout after t g e first day of climbing the stairs
>>35104566
thank god Brazil still hates the fatties, shit like this makes me wanna give up on having children
>>35104617
(People used to think the hydrogen bomb was the greatest threat to civilization.)
>>35104638
Anon in japan here. 3% national obesity rate is based
>>35104566
why fight those fighting themselves? just sit back and watch.
>>35104772
Norway here. I think we're at 8%. I'm worried it's going up. I'm seeing more fat people outside.
>>35104788
They'll probably tear each other to pieces when they run out of sweets in their first lecture.
>>35104566
Anybody in Maryland want to take this class and report back to us?
>>35105050
>Throwing away your future by getting into debt to win credibility on the gay friendly autistic bodybuilding board on an anime forum
>>35105090
Can't you just rock up to lectures? My uni only took attendance for tutorials in undergrad
>>35104566
Perfect course for a htam to take
>The instructor for the course is fourth-year Ph.D. student Cassy Griff
>>35105343
I think the expressions in the background say more than enough
>>35105343
Wow. No one expected her to be like this. No one.
I would take that class and fuck as many qt white and latina ssbbws as I could
>>35105343
Mirin those 22 inch arms
>>35105343
>Ph.D
>This title will never again mean something
>>35104566
I don't want to lift on this planet anymore.
>>35105343
>>35105405
I spat my coffee out in pure shock.
>>35105470
She had to work hard and write a worthy thesis to get where she is. How she stays this delusional is beyond me.
>>35104566
>this is the world in which I live
i am so glad my BMI is down from 36 to 27
these fucks can eat themselves to death as far as i am concerned
>>35105544
Now you must approve of their decisions.
>Instead, the course will approach fatness as “an aspect of human diversity, experience, and identity.”
Good thing I learned early on that things said in college are questionable at best.
Kin/Nutrition student here, they shove fat acceptance in both now.
Enjoy watching society decline and eat itself, no pun intended
>>35105587
>Good thing I learned early on that things said in college are questionable at best.
unless you actually study something useful.
>>35105050
What would they think about a /fit/ person taking this class?
>>35105640
They probably would all start posting here in an attempt to convert us with their Fat Liberation Manifesto.
>>35104566
>(and growing)
kek
>>35105522
1. She did not get her Ph.D yet.
2. You can write a mongoloid tier thesis and get it accepted if your supervisors are shit.
>be American
>go into massive debt to go to college
>major in Fat Studies
>get shot by frogposter
>go into massive debt to pay medical bills
>have heart attack
>die
>>35105632
okay, anything that is not an objective science.
Oh wait, they say STEM fields (the major I listed was STEM) have it all over them too, not within, but shoved in. Take an English 100 class and realize that "shoved in" is implying that it is forced in, and can imply that it isnt related to the major at all.
enjoy having a fat black woman having 10x the ability to be hired than you, when you have 10x her ability to work.
>>35104566
The US is literally a satire of itself
THE
>>35105544
They will eat you too if you are not quick enough.
>>35105718
Well she'd have to be at a pretty shitty university to cultivate such a broken mindset. so I suppose shitty supervisors aren't out of the question.
>>35105343
>Dr Gassy Queef PhD on MUH GENETICS
>>35105050
I used to go there, sorry senpai.
Daily reminder that there are innocent children starving to death in Africa, while these lard buckets complain about the minor social consequences they face because they eat too much.
I'm a senior at Maryland I've never heard of this shenanigans good thing I'm almost out damn
>>35106577
Take the class anon.
>>35105809
> mfw idiocracy proves time travel
So it'd go between Asians and transpacific sexualities. Neato.
>>35106587
Isn't on the list for next semester sorry senpai
1. WE believe that fat people are fully entitled to human respect and recognition.
2. WE are angry at mistreatment by commercial and sexist interests. These have exploited our bodies as objects of ridicule, thereby creating an immensely profitable market selling the false promise of avoidance of, or relief from, that ridicule.
3. WE see our struggle as allied with the struggles of other oppressed groups against classism, racism, sexism, ageism, financial exploitation, imperialism and the like.
>>35106760
4. WE demand equal rights for fat people in all aspects of life, as promised in the Constitution of the United States. We demand equal access to goods and services in the public domain, and an end to discrimination against us in the areas of employment, education, public facilities and health services.
5. WE single out as our special enemies the so-called “reducing” industries. These include diet clubs, reducing salons, fat farms, diet doctors, diet books, diet foods and food supplements, surgical procedures, appetite suppressants, drugs and gadgetry such as wraps and “reducing machines”.
WE demand that they take responsibility for their false claims,
acknowledge that their products are harmful to the public health,
and publish long-term studies proving any statistical efficacy of their products. We make this demand knowing that over 99% of all weight loss programs, when evaluated over a five-year period, fail utterly, and also knowing the extreme proven harmfulness of frequent large changes in weight.
6. WE repudiate the mystified “science” which falsely claims that we are unfit. It has both caused and upheld discrimination against us, in collusion with the financial interests of insurance companies, the fashion and garment industries, reducing industries, the food and drug industries, and the medical and psychiatric establishment.
7. WE refuse to be subjugated to the interests of our enemies. We fully intend to reclaim power over our bodies and our lives. We commit ourselves to pursue these goals together.
FAT PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, UNITE! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE ….
By Judy Freespirit and Aldebaran
November, 1973
from Largesse, who has documented Fat Underground activism
http://laurenyay.tumblr.com/post/8711705310/fat-liberation-manifesto
>>35105343
Even her fucking flats are fat lel
>>35104566
Here is the syllabus
https://oes.umd.edu/sites/oes.umd.edu/files/uploads/syllabi/WT/amst328c.pdf
>>35104566
>all the liberal nigger lovers are putting on a ton of weight
perfect know the liberal epidemic will die out
based diabetes and heart disease
>>35104566
>>35107001
>Unit 5 fat folks fight back! Fat acceptance and positivity, heath at every size.
We all know what she wanted at the time.
>>35105795
That's why you do an exchange to a place with more so called "common sense".
>Go to Hong Kong
>Be taller than any other chinks, even if you're only 5'8 you're already above average.
>Slay ching chong pussy.
>Gotta kek them all!
>>35107001
>“obesity epidemic.”
It really shits me that she put that in quotation marks.
Just one observation here:
I study Physics in Mexico and we don't have bullshit like this. At least not now. I have only had two obligatory "humanities courses" and they were both ethics. I hate it because I find it kind of just circle jerking about why bad things are bad and full of anecdotal evidence. At the end you have to do and essay about whatever as long as it's related to ethics. So this semester I did one about free speech and why hate speech is bullshit and I got a good grade. So doing this I discovered that USA universities can't do shit based on what you express as opinion. Even if you wore an swastika to a jewish party you will be protected by the law.
So, couldn't someone just enroll on the course and make essays, articles and speeches calling them out on why they're full of shit? I mean, they can't expel you based on this and if they do you can call them out as bullshiters if you organize well enough. It would be dank good if someone took this task as a New Year resolution. It's for the greater good.
>>35104566
>American universities
>>35104626
aw thats a cute pupper
This crap gets pushed as a way to fund departments that cannot be funded through grants or other means. A STEM professor in a hot field can easily keep his/her graduate students fully funded through research. Something like art history or american studies can only fund graduate students through teaching assistantships, which is why they push so hard for including their classes into programs like business or engineering. A lot of it has with trying to keep the department funded.
>>35107830
universities have always had stupid classes you can take. theres no harm in it since its not like they're required or anything.
>>35107389
Are all physics students in your university as terribly inarticulate as you?
>>35104566
Good. More people to end up going bankrupt and killing themselves because of retarded degrees.
>>35107001
>Intersecting Identities: Fatness, Gender, Race, and Sexuality
So, something you choose that objectively harms you, something you're born with that has no objectively lesser outcomes, x3.
Fat fucks trying to piggyback on actual civil rights.
>Civil Rights breaks its collective spine under the weight of tumblr
>>35107389
Where do you study, Mexibro?
>>35106760
>>35106785
Daily reminder that if you support Bernie Sanders, these are the policies that you are advocating
>>35106785
>WE repudiate the mystified “science”
That's all I needed to hear 2bh f.a.m.
>>35107865
You can make full degrees out of these stupid classes
>>35105640
You would oppress them with your presence. I would show up every day in my gym clothes, with a gym bag, drinking a protien shake and be the most attentive student ever. Sit in the front row and just bathe in the hateful stares and impotent rage.
>>35108057
When did he say anything about this issue
>>35107876
You have 2 minutes to compose a more articulate reply in spanish...and go.
>>35107876
He's Mexican man, English isn't his first language
>>35108135
He has many SJW types in his voter base and if he was ever asked this question I guarantee you he would side with fat acceptance over logic
>>35108057
>feelthesand
>>35104566
Gonna mark Maryland off my list...
This class is online, there is no class room.
>>35106785
>WE demand equal rights for fat people in all aspects of life, as promised in the Constitution of the United States.
Fucking lol. Equal rights comes from the natural rights that you're born with. The government cannot and does not grant rights to the people without taking some away in return. Basically, what this person is asking for is the government to restrict the rights from others in the name of making things more "fair" to make up for your shitty life choices.
The founding fathers are rolling in their graves with these people attempting to use a document that outlines a system of limited government based on maximizing the freedom of the individual being used to support this narrative of welfare for these lazy, repugnant wastes of human flesh.
>>35107389
Well, it would be a waste of money to take this class and support a PhD candidate that doesn't deserve it. And you'd get a bad grade, guaranteed, tho you'd have excellent grounds to have it academically reviewed.
>>35107855
This. And thus the decline in humanities.
I won't miss many of them.
>>35108258
they wouldnt be able to fit inside anyway
>>35107830
> america
>>35108291
Actually, unless the enrollment is terribly low the class will happen and she'll be paid a flat rate and probably get a tuition waiver. The best way to fuck things up for her would actually be to fill the class to capacity, it makes for much more work.
>>35108304
What are you, 12? Grow up. Personal growth requires more than learning how to do fucking calculus. College is great because it presents you with opportunities to learn new things unrelated to your chosen profession, to meet people different from you, and to critically evaluate your beliefs (liberal or conservative). When I feel a cool down burst of wind before a rain shower I still think back to that meteorology class. I think about the astronomy class when looking at the stars and pointing out constellations to my kids. Fuck, how do you expect to be a mature, knowledgeable, and interesting person without a generalized education?
Source: I'm a college professor.
And yes, this class sounds stupid and she is probably a delusional idiot. There are lots of them out there in the world and some of them even have a ph.d. If you're not brain dead, can write well, and work hard then a ph.d. is not hard to get especially in the social sciences.
>>35107389
They'd probably fail you and you'd waste your money. But I wouldn't be surprised if some people enrolled in this class just for the lulz so they could shame the fatties.
>>35105050
it's during the winter semester, otherwise I would
>>35105718
>>35106196
>>35105522
she's getting a Ph. D in fucking fat/latino studies. it's not like she actually needs to do anything meaningful to get it. Liberal arts degrees are basically saying you know the same information as a wikipedia page.
Shit like this is why degrees don't mean anything anymore.
>>35108930
no, its why social science degrees dont mean anything.
>NAAFA
>>35104788
>let them encourage obesity unabated so even more of the population become grotesque abominations
enemy of the state detected
>>35107001
Conservitards are putting on weight just as fast. /fit/ rules above them both.
>>35109107
Conservatives begin fat.
>>35108258
Do they provide special keyboards for the fat fingers?
>>35108583
I'm guessing you teach some shit tier affirmative action major like Psychology
>>35108904
Is it in Latino Studies and Fat studies, or is it a study of fat latinos?
>>35108904
Eh, more like saying you'd be qualified to write that Wikipedia page if you're at all bothered.
I got an MA in Humanities, and it was piss easy. Mind you I still worked hard when I had to and shit, but christ what nonsense. And my peers... jesus.
The thing is, undergrad degrees these days are equal to high school diplomas a generation or two back, and now MA degrees (and shitty PhDs) are equal to those undergrad degrees. The bar is so low and any spaz can flunk their way through them.
I used to hate STEM folk looking down on Humanities and Liberal Arts, but damned if they aren't validated by shit like this.
>>35108213
>I don't like someone because I fantasized that they said a stupid thing
>>35105809
Yeah it is. Wasn't there an article in the Onion where the columnists got together and said satire in america is basically impossible?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/give-the-onion-its-pulitzer-satire-is-dead/2011/03/03/AGoQpNhH_blog.html
