My hometown, Marion, Ohio is keeping it classy yet again. A person on FB posted this photo of a billboard in town:
Really? REALLY? Ok, I get that obesity is a problem but that's the best that they can do? No offers of "We can help! Call X" or anything, just straight up, 100% fat shaming. For a body that let's be honest, isn't THAT obese. It looks like a mom body that hasn't had the time or energy to get fit after birthing a baby.
That and Marion, Ohio, you have MUCH more critical issues to be spending people's taxpayer money on, perhaps such as doing more to help the drug addicts considering when it made big news about overdoses due to tainted heroin. Or maybe they can do something to combat racism since Marion Ohio is home to the largest KKK faction - the Brotherhood of Klans. If they don't want to tackle that, how about a billboard to let people know where to go to get help considering the poverty rate in Marion is several percentage points worse than the State of Ohio as a whole?
But nope, random non-helpful "LOSE WEIGHT FATTY!" billboards - so useful and totally encourage the people that had NO idea that they have a weight problem. Yeah.
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Really? REALLY? Ok, I get that obesity is a problem but that's the best that they can do? No offers of "We can help! Call X" or anything, just straight up, 100% fat shaming. For a body that let's be honest, isn't THAT obese. It looks like a mom body that hasn't had the time or energy to get fit after birthing a baby.
That and Marion, Ohio, you have MUCH more critical issues to be spending people's taxpayer money on, perhaps such as doing more to help the drug addicts considering when it made big news about overdoses due to tainted heroin. Or maybe they can do something to combat racism since Marion Ohio is home to the largest KKK faction - the Brotherhood of Klans. If they don't want to tackle that, how about a billboard to let people know where to go to get help considering the poverty rate in Marion is several percentage points worse than the State of Ohio as a whole?
But nope, random non-helpful "LOSE WEIGHT FATTY!" billboards - so useful and totally encourage the people that had NO idea that they have a weight problem. Yeah.
This entry is crossposted from http://missdiane.dreamwidth.org/89616.html. You can comment here on LJ or if you prefer, on on the original post at DW using OpenID.
- Where am I?:NOT Marion, Ohio, thankfully
- What am I feeling?:
annoyed
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I worked on Prez Obama's election campaign back in 2008 and, as a neophyte volunteer, I was assigned to do cold calling. The very first person I called said that he would only vote for Obama if they let him wear a white sheet over his head.
Just another reason why going home isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Sis is house shopping again and mentioned to me last night that she's trying to find a place with a mother-in-law suite for the folks. I'm crossing all crossables that she can find one
And if I win a small lotto win, she's getting cash to help the the 'rents OUT of there.
I'm originally from Toledo. Too bad our state sucks sometimes.
Hell, if we fat folks didn't die off earlier, that'd be more money taxpayers would be fronting for us being on the old people dime for longer, amIright?
http://www.phcmarion.org/
Which it looks like part of it is publicly/tax funded. That's one ass-backwards town.