Monday, 27 November 2006

Tubby Studies

One of the dozens of “last forms of acceptable discrimination” will get its place in the academy if “fat studies” is added to the curriculum. Somehow I don’t see the study of William Howard Taft (or, for that matter, William Jefferson Clinton) fitting very well into this research program.

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[Permalink] 1. Scott wrote @ Mon, 27 Nov 2006, 11:10 am CST:

Why was I so naive to think it was going to be something that would fall under the health science and nutrition with, perhaps, a LITTLE sociology thrown in…....

 
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