First off I am a fat man. I'm not chubby, I am fat. I can speak as an expert in regards to this as I have been a fat person since I was roughly 8 years old and now hold true to the fat lifestyle at the tender age of 29. Fat fat fat fat fat.

I'm not going to claim to know what percentage of the morbidly obese are self inflicting this fat lifestyle but I would guess it's the majority of the morbidly obese. From what I've studied and from what I've experienced this seems to be the case.

I would assume this is the reason this story has no comments as opposed to a story about say, a one breasted woman being denied a job as a stripper and suing or some racial discrimination, etc. There's a lot of guilt and sympathy being spread over a large demographic and there simply isn't room for the fatties. PUN!!!

What these guy is dealing with I've dealt with my whole life. Most of my stories are different because I've been tall since I was 11 years old. I was 6 feet tall by the time I was 12 or 13. People treat you a lot different when you're tall.

Point blank, if I wasn't a person of reason and I felt I was owed something for being fat, I could have sued an former employer of mine for refusing to promote me within the company despite stellar performance reviews and after simply being told, you're too big to do the job. It simply wasn't the case. They speculated and himmed and hawwed (sp?) at one particular part of the job that they felt I wasn't capable of doing and told me because of my weight, I couldn't do it. I was never provided a chance, and overheard several conversations confirming this. I didn't even think this was the reason until I heard these conversations. Obviously I'm leaving details out and don't really hold any emotional tie to the issue. I just don't care.

The ironic thing is this. Being 6'6" and over 400lbs, I am still a very athletic person. I have been an amateur boxer for years. The amount of agility and stamina required of a boxer is staggering. Sure past 4 rounds I'm useless, but, I'd love to see some of the smoking and drinking thinly folk that are keen on turning their nose up to we the wide actually box for twelve whole minutes.

At most jobs I've had in my life anytime the time comes for my promotion I have never received a promotion that would put in a position to do physical labor. I highly doubt this is a coincedence but, that's fine. I get enough of a workout from walking the dog, boxing, hiking, and playing video games.

Straight up, I have little doubt this dude was discriminated upon due to his health issues. I've also been through this when I was very sick at one point in my life. The pack mentality where management is keen on picking off the supposed weak in a litter is terrifying in my experience. People get sick, it happens...

The moral of the story is no one cares when fat people are discriminated upon because it's still socially acceptable to make fun of fat people in public. It's really the one health issue left that is ok to ridicule. I better stop writing, I need to head on over to OHSU and find some lung cancer patients and make fun of them for having smoked their whole lives. Stupid no breathers.