Thank you for bringing up poverty as a significant issue. In addition to the cost of food, many low income people are also time poor. Yes, you can make inexpensive, healthly meals, but that assumes you have time and space to prepare them. If someone is working 2 part time jobs with odd hours, that can be a real…

My doctor is always going on about my weight (and I admittedly do have a big ol’ beer belly) and I hover between a 30-32" waist in jeans. Usually the 32's are falling off my ass unless they’re freshly washed.

Cracks me up some people want to paint a 40" waist as average. There’s a healthy middle ground between outright shaming people for being fat, and pretending being obese is healthy and desirable.

BC it was designed and implemented, initially, for the Japanese market. That’s why.

100% agree that the health issues associated with obesity are a social problem. You’ve left out poverty, though. The “real bread” you mention is a lot more expensive than the less nutritious bread with added sugar.

It may be unpopular (or not, based on the replies here?) but I have trouble being upset about this, despite flirting with this limit. Universal Studios isn’t required to enable my fat ass. It’s an odd business decision to potentially exclude half your customers, for sure. But I’m not going to be outraged about it.…

Agreed. About 36" waist currently as a guy and classify as overweight/borderline obese. Our increased sizes have become normalized to a terrifying degree.

I think the facts speak for themselves. The park doesnt have to accommodate for people of a certain size when it comes to safety. And dont be fooled, im 6'4" with a 42" waistline coming up on 300 lbs. If I saw this and was going to universal, you bet I would be working some of that weight off. Also, if this is a bad…

Two things can be true: obese people should be treated with dignity, respect, love, and validation; and we need to confront the food problems that are causing unhealthy obesity and killing people. The former is a social issue; the latter needs to be led by the agencies who are supposedly built to help combat public…

if they put a risk in their safety, yes

if they aren’t i am saying exactly that

While I think they probably should have designed this to be more accommodating, but less than 40" waistline isn’t “thin”, at least for dudes.

Source: I’m around 38" and I’m a bit of a fat fuck. 

The same CDC dataset cited noted that 42% of Americans are obese, a number that doubled since 1990. Not overweight: obese. 2/3 of adult Americans are now overweight. But I’m sure I’m in for a lecture or my post will get deleted for noting this.

Came here to say the same thing. It’s utterly shitty but also unsurprising that a citizen from one of the world’s most racially homogeneous nations might have no understanding or appreciation of racial diversity. It’s Japan, racism and insular attitudes are kinda baked-in: famously closed their borders til Commodore…

This right here is exactly why, while disappointing, no one should be surprised by this, Japan does not have a history of healthy representation of diversity in any of its media. But at least it’s shown signs of getting better. I Am rewatching DBZ right now, just began the Buu saga and holy fuck I forgot about the…

While still disappointing, I don’t find it very surprising that a developer from a country in which 98% of the population share the same ethnicity and culture struggles to grasp the depht and importance of representation issues.

The object of the game was to knock people into the pit.  I’m not sure that thinking it would be safe to jump into the pit you just bashed someone off an elevated post into should be considered a stupid desicion.

I worked a couple of months at a Pizza Hut once when I was a teenager, so of course I should be referred to as an ex Pizza Hut employee for the rest of my life!

Okay but how would she be expected to know the foam pit is unsafe? People are expected to be knocking each other off of podiums into it, which creates legally, a reasonable expectation of safety. And to be completely honest I'm pretty smooth brain when it comes to the construction of foam pits and gladiator podiums so…

Sadly, back pain doesn’t always look a certain way.  As someone who has had their share of back pain it’s not always the laying down or standing up that’s hard -- it’s the transition in between.  Even when the back is acting up, I can still be in pain and hold a conversation.