Originally posted by joe beyser Stop worrying so much about gay issues parachuter. We accept you as you are choice or not. We don't need to spend money figuring out what makes you tic when we already know. It is obvious the true gays do not have a choice and the bisexuals do. The whole fat part of the study takes away credibility for me as I know a lot of skinny lesbians.
So you (supposedly) knowing skinny lesbians trumps scientific studies that prove lesbians have a much higher obesity rate?
Originally posted by USArmyParatrooper So you (supposedly) knowing skinny lesbians trumps scientific studies that prove lesbians have a much higher obesity rate?
Yes. The skinny ones I know must be satisfied in their relationships and have not used food to fill a void of need. If you are saying more lesbians are fat than women that are heterosexual I won't argue. Just saying it doesn't take a big study to figure it out. I know that runs contrary to your liberal way of thinking but we can think for ourselves you know.
Originally posted by joe beyser Yes. The skinny ones I know must be satisfied in their relationships and have not used food to fill a void of need. If you are saying more lesbians are fat than women that are heterosexual I won't argue. Just saying it doesn't take a big study to figure it out. I know that runs contrary to your liberal way of thinking but we can think for ourselves you know.
We're both in full agreement that it goes against my liberal thinking to disagree with science.
Originally posted by joe beyser You are kinda smart then but do you agree we can think for ourselves?
Of course we can but drawing the correct conclusions requires having an adequate amount of knowledge. I'm not going to disagree with the American Medical Association about the human heart, for example, simply because I can think for myself.
Originally posted by Eladar http://cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-spend-15-million-study-why-lesbians-are-fat
Stuff like this is why people don't want to raise taxes. Why give more money to people who waste it?
You don't think that obesity in the US is worth studying?
Previous research has shown a link between male homosexuality and non-obesity and female homosexuality and obesity.
Researching this might find various factors which contribute or diminish obesity, in the long running saving millions of dollars on health-related spending.
Na. Best bomb some or other 3rd world nation and eat a bloody double whopper.
Originally posted by shavixmir You don't think that obesity in the US is worth studying?
Previous research has shown a link between male homosexuality and non-obesity and female homosexuality and obesity.
Researching this might find various factors which contribute or diminish obesity, in the long running saving millions of dollars on health-related spending.
Na. Best bomb some or other 3rd world nation and eat a bloody double whopper.
Eladar might come back and tell you that you may have made a good point here. But, I doubt it. With the trigger words for him and his OP probably being "lesbians" - and "taxes" - rather than "obesity", we probably need to bear in mind that Eladar once told the forum that he would not have a problem with the government of a country he was living in if it put homosexuals to death for being homosexuals. So I don't think 'what the research is into' is the real underlying issue for Eladar. Then again, I could have got it wrong, maybe he is adamantly against research into obesity. Perhaps he will clarify.
Originally posted by USArmyParatrooper Of course we can but drawing the correct conclusions requires having an adequate amount of knowledge. I'm not going to disagree with the American Medical Association about the human heart, for example, simply because I can think for myself.
Well then straighten up and fly right from now on. Cheerio
Originally posted by Eladar http://cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-spend-15-million-study-why-lesbians-are-fat
Stuff like this is why people don't want to raise taxes. Why give more money to people who waste it?
And then there's the reality of what the study is actually about. Not that I expect you and several other posters on this thread to let the facts get in the way of what you want to believe. A worthwhile study would be to find out why so many, like you, choose to be willfully ignorant.
It's important to remember that nearly half of straight women are obese, too, and that the study is also figuring out why straight men are more often overweight than gay men:
[quote]It is now well-established that women of minority sexual orientation are disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic, with nearly three-quarters of adult lesbians overweight or obese, compared to half of heterosexual women. In stark contrast, among men, heterosexual males have nearly double the risk of obesity compared to gay males. Despite clear evidence from descriptive epidemiologic research that sexual orientation and gender markedly pattern obesity disparities, there is almost no prospective, analytic epidemiologic research into the causes of these disparities.
All of which is to say, these headlines would have been accurate as the inverse: "Obama administration spends $1.5 million to figure out why straight men are fat." Or: "Obama administration spends $1.5 million to figure out why gay men have rocking bodies." Or perhaps: "America is overweight (except for gay men?) and scientists are trying to determine why."
Why waste the money on any kind of study like this at all?
Is the budget balanced? Do we have the extra money to spend on something as trivial as this? I guess you don't think it is right for people to question how it is that the government is spending the money the government is taking from us and from future generations of Americans.
Originally posted by shavixmir You don't think that obesity in the US is worth studying?
Previous research has shown a link between male homosexuality and non-obesity and female homosexuality and obesity.
Researching this might find various factors which contribute or diminish obesity, in the long running saving millions of dollars on health-related spending.
Na. Best bomb some or other 3rd world nation and eat a bloody double whopper.
I think that there should be a priority. Should you pay off the natinal debt or do a study? Pay off the national debt or spend money on something that isn't needed?
Yah I know, you'd choose to spend on things not needed.
Originally posted by Eladar On the basis that we can't afford it. A need is something that is acutally needed, not a want.
A restricted supply of money does not mean it is "not needed". What are the costs down the road of not tackling obesity? Why not make cuts to parts of the military expenditure that can be shown to be "not needed" whilst still being able to defend the US.
US spends 1.5 Million to study fat lesbians
13 Mar '13 02:56
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