Originally Posted by Real World

These kinds of laws are a little over the top.

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/f...size18.article

Short, fat people may get rights

MASSACHUSETTS | Would law stop bias -- or business?

May 18, 2007
BY KEN MAGUIRE
BOSTON -- Ellen Frankel stands just 4-foot-8 inches tall, a size that allowed larger co-workers to playfully scoop her up at the office and make remarks about her height. Some even patted her on the head.
Lawmakers are considering complaints such as hers as they review a bill that would make Massachusetts just the second state to bar discrimination based on height or weight.

''People in authority will very easily make comments about height that they wouldn't make about race or gender,'' said Frankel, a Marblehead author.

Jeanne Toombs understands the frustration. She says overweight people routinely are discriminated against because of their size.

''It's not fair. No matter what you think of fat people, they deserve to be treated like human beings,'' said Toombs, 59, a piano teacher who weighs 300 pounds.

But Republican analyst Todd Domke is concerned that lawmakers will scare off businesses if they expand protection to include short and overweight workers.

''We might as well add colorblind, left-handed, allergic-to-cashews, and get it over with,'' Domke said.

Originally Posted by The Gr8est

I agree. I am 5-4, 180 ( not fat though, I am solid and can bench 255), and I can vouch for the fact that being short IS a handicap. That said I am NOT in favor of any sort of special protected-class treated. We have far too much of that already. Everyone has their own issues to deal with, and we don't need legislation to counter every negative that people meet in life.

That's just life.

Originally Posted by Pujo

I'm 6'4", and I'd like to see a law banning low signs, overhangs, and tree branches. Well, not really, but those bother me a lot more than people saying, "Hey, is it raining up there?"

Originally Posted by Pujo

I'm 6'4", and I'd like to see a law banning low signs, overhangs, and tree branches. Well, not really, but those bother me a lot more than people saying, "Hey, is it raining up there?"

Originally Posted by Pujo

I'm 6'4", and I'd like to see a law banning low signs, overhangs, and tree branches. Well, not really, but those bother me a lot more than people saying, "Hey, is it raining up there?"

Originally Posted by Harry Boy

I'm 5' 9", 145 lbs, Red Hair, when I was 14 yrs old I worked on a Horse and Wagon peddling Ice & Oil one day the Horse stepped on my foot and it left me with a very slight life long limp, you should see the ***** Iv'e had to take, I was also a Protestant hanging around all my life with a bunch of Catholics, I was always told I was never going to heaven, they told me God hates Red Headed Protestants That Limp, I finally found a Protestant women that wouldn't let me have sex with her until we got married, so I married her, what do my kids do, they all marry Catholics, now when I have a family cookout I'm surrounded by Catholics again. GOD HATES MY GUTS.