Okay... I'm just going to say, before I (hopefully) turn in for the night (now morning... damn) is that the OP comes off as... Okay. Here's the thing. I understand your point. It's aggravating for people who chose to eat six pizzas a day to then demand that someone accomodate them, rather than take responsibility for their actions. I understand that it's difficult to understand how someone can get up to a 6X shirt and not think there's a problem. I really do. I know where you're going with your argument but I still disagree because it comes off as intolerance. You don't have to accept it, but you tolerate it like you tolerate a smoker or crying infant.
I say all this because my boyfriend, at his healthiest weight, weighs 275 pounds. This was two years ago, at the peak of football season- he was working out every day, taking in a lot of protein, and was incredibly in shape. However, about a year ago he tore his meniscus (he didn't know he tore it till this past August, though), and due to the unholy amount of pain he felt had to quit the college track team he'd been on. Due to the pain (which makes it difficult for him to even walk upstairs), he was unable to continue his usual active lifestyle.
When he went to camp last summer (he's an instructor at a BSA camp for six weeks in the mountains), he weighed 330. Over the course of the summer, he lost only about ten pounds but had gained his muscle definition back. Unfortunately, nothing could be done about his meniscus (the doctor's advice was, see if the cyst in your knee goes away on its own), and once we returned here, he was back in pain (mind you, he was in pain the entire time he was at camp but the food there was... well, they didn't get enough calories for the amount of physical activity they did). As such, I'm not sure his weight now BUT we've committed to a program (together, as it helps to have a buddy and I'm female and thus hate my body) to get back to a healthier weight, and keep down his health risks.
I say all this because even if he got back down to his weight and size senior year (which... oh man, his shoulders *drool*), he'd still be twice my size and bigger than most average people. This isn't to say that every person who weighs that much (and I assure you, that's the weight he's supposed to be) got there because that's just how they are instead of sitting on the couch, playing Wii and eating cheesey-poofs, but not all people that are overweight (by your standards) are in that category, either. As such, he'd need a bigger gown in the hospital, and it's always been uncomfortable for him to sit in a standard school desk, and there's nothing he can do about it.
The reality of the situation is people in developed nations are gaining weight (Australia just beat the US as the fattest nation, so I don't want to hear it), and there will have to be accomodations that're made. Frankly, I, as a female, am saddened every day when thin models are embraced and my only solace comes from Renaissance paintings of nudes that, once upon a time, my body shape was the ideal, but that's not for here.
I dearly hope that I haven't offended you by the previous statements (the sheer length probably did it), and that you take my arguments in stride. I don't negate that their is a bit of a problem, but I also think the treatment of smokers like they were pedophilic Nazis is also a bit extreme. However, there is a comfortable middle ground that can, and should, be reached by all people.
As for the second point, "There are also extreme cases where mothers would end up with eight children before they got the gender they wanted or would abort their child because they were of the wrong gender." That's a throwback to the days of Henry VIII, minus the sheer amount of divorce because back then, they thought it was the woman's fault that males weren't born. That's all I was saying, not outright attacking your point.
Again, I hope I haven't offended you and I assure you I meant no personal attack.
