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Study: Male Jurors More Likely To Find Fat Women Guilty

nymag – There’s reason to believe male jurors will be biased against overweight, female defendants. In a mock trial-ish study, Yale psychologists found that men were “significantly more likely” to find obese women guilty, Slate reports. The study presented the same check fraud case to 471 pretend jurors but paired the case with one of four images (big guy, little guy, big lady, little lady), asking the participants to rate their guilt on a five-point scale. “No fat bias emerged when the female pretend peers evaluated the female pretend defendants or when either men or women assessed the guilt of the men,” Katy Waldman writes. But when men assessed the guilt of women, the obese defendants were much guiltier. Male jurors who were not themselves overweight suspected the obese female defendants “repeat offenders” with “awareness of their crimes.” The study’s authors told Slate that the findings suggested that obese people were stereotyped as “greedy” and “selfish.”

I wonder why men would view obese people as “greedy” or “selfish”. Oh, that’s right, because those characteristics are the exact reason why they’re obese in the first place. Has there ever been an obese person who wasn’t greedy? Never. Ever ever. Because contrary to popular American belief, human beings can only become obese if they are greedy with their food. Your glands didn’t give you back tits, lady. Throwing 20 toppings into your Nifty Fifty’s milkshakes did.

I’m not saying that to mock people or make anyone feel bad, it’s just a fact of life. I was a chubby kid myself around 5th grade. Why? Too much Crash Bandicoot & Wawa coffee rolls. Part of the thought process an obese person has to go through when they’re waffling between a mixed green salad and Triple Baconator is whether to choose to do what’s right or to choose to do what’s wrong. And most people who are crazy fat got that way by choosing Baconator 10/10 times. I’m not saying that it definitely makes them more likely to be guilty of a crime, I’m just saying that it probably makes them more likely to be guilty of a crime.

By maurice posted January 11th, 2013 at 2:00 PM

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by phallus on January 11, 2013 at 2:09 pm

I can't tell if that photo was taken from the front or back
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by phallus on January 11, 2013 at 2:09 pm

Thumbs notwithstanding
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by septic butt on January 11, 2013 at 2:37 pm

Study misses the point. Fat women usually hang with black dudes. Black dudes commit alot of crime. Guilt by association.
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by scurvy on January 11, 2013 at 2:37 pm

well done, phallus. i was thinking the same thing. either way, the pic itself was enough for me to put off reading this until last.
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by billbrasky4 on January 11, 2013 at 2:38 pm

fucking pig
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by con_fooshis on January 11, 2013 at 2:48 pm

"Hey, where'd all the fuckin' donuts go? There were 2 boxes here this morning." All eyes focus towards the fat chick ------- she won't make eye contact but you all see the powdered sugar covering the front of her tent blouse.................- a million offices all over the world every day.
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by gofuckyourself on January 11, 2013 at 3:01 pm

phillydog, been liking your comment all day. mo, this is a legit question
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by common sense on January 11, 2013 at 3:44 pm

Guilty.
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by worriedindc on January 11, 2013 at 5:41 pm

If Obama's going to force me to pay for other people's healthcare, they had better well not be fat fucking bitches. They cost the system the most amount of money. Be fat and female on your own dollar.
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by phillydog on January 11, 2013 at 7:07 pm

Moey Baggawaffles, why are fat black chicks so loud in public man? 85% of the population is dying to know
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by mikerice on January 11, 2013 at 8:40 pm

theres fat and theres obese. obese people should locked away forever for the sole reason that i will no longer have to look at them.
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by 1.12 Hardcore Jollies | The Spizzy on January 12, 2013 at 11:47 am

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