Going hyper on the 'F' word

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br />When the seven deadly sins - recently declared dead – are redefined, the first will be obesity. To be the ''F'' word – <a href="/articleshow/378468.cms" target="_blank">FAT</a> – is a global no-no, human rights be damned.<br /></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="27.0%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/442581.cms" alt="/photo/442581.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">Actress Rambha</span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">There is now a legal battle on in Kolkata between Indian Airlines and an airhostess, who was thrown out of her job for gaining weight.The weight gain, says the <a href="http://thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/438153.cms" target="_blank">airlines</a>, was in violation of the very important sounding clause 9(2)(b) of IA rules. And when Dhar could not check the bulge she was chucked out.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Now Indian Airlines, between you and me, hardly upholds any kind of service standards – aesthetic or otherwise. Also, what is it about an <a href="http://thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/415906.cms" target="_blank">overweight</a> airhostess that is so objectionable, save perhaps that an airbus that carries a few hundred may be overloaded if an extra 10 kg clamber on. On someone''s person.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">If it''s purely that <a href="http://thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/344541.cms" target="_blank">plumper</a> hostesses don''t look as fetching as very thin ones do while serving inedible cutlets, then perhaps such rules should be extended to every service that a consumer pays for. </span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">(</span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><a href="/mailro/441488.cms">Should being overweight be grounds for dismissal from a job</a></span><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">)</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Like not subjecting more and more of Bipasha Basu on the unsuspecting moviegoer, as the actress spreads merrily. Or even tubby Govinda cavorting around with a tubbier Rambha. The consumer should not be forced to watch the likes of Manisha Koirala. And Adnan Sami must be told his dulcet voice will have to waft in from behind the screen. He simply cannot be allowed to appear in his music videos.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><formid=367815></formid=367815></span><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><br /><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script><br />In fact, while we are at it, the tax payer has every right to deny his money to any political leader that puts on excessive weight. If being overweight interferes with an airhostess'' basic duties of politely helping the customer settle down on the flight, then surely it stops the <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">neta</span> from discharging his duties effectively. Medical theory will have us know fat people have less energy than thin people do. <br /></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="32.1%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <br /></td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" f3f3f3=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="">Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa</span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Perhaps, then, a discreet reminder to, say, Mayawati and J Jayalalithaa, Renuka Choudhary or Amar Singh or the hundreds of <a href="http://thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/415906.cms" target="_blank">pot-bellied</a> leaders walking up and down the hallowed corridors of Parliament or state Assemblies. Very often these luminaries even appear on television debating a fine point. That is an imposition.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">The student must have the right to walk out of a class if the teacher is overweight, the bus conductor handing out tickets on a Delhi Transport Corporation bus must be grounded for his massive middle. The dignified waiter at Delhi''s favourite restaurant must be told to wear a corset.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Absurd? Only about as much as someone losing the right to a livelihood over 10.5 extra kgs. Indian Airlines doesn''t seem to have a problem with spilling stomachs when male officials at its booking counters can''t keep all of themselves together under that belt. Or do we smell discrimination here?</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><formid=367815></formid=367815></span></div> </div>