I wrote an article in Swedish earlier today. It was about Swedish employers discriminating fat people. I happen to know it´s true. Fat people are wrongly considered stupid, less intelligent, lazy, more sick, even though they are none of the mentioned things. Science (you may find sources in earlier articles on my homepage) has actually shown fat people are just as healthy as normal people. And I do not consider me stupid in some cases, however anyone can be stupid in other cases. If we talk about my area of expertise I am definitly not stupid, but if we talk about uninteresting things for me, then I might not have nor want the knowledge in the area of concern.
I think it´s sad that Swedish employers just see a surface and not a person at a interview. I happen to know I haven´t gotten some jobs just because of my looks. People seem to want the pretty people. I happen to know a lot of ineffective and really stupid pretty people. As long as you are pretty people accept you beeing pretty stupid. I think it´s so sad. However beeing ugly, like me, I never get away with beeing stupid, I allways have to know what I am saying. If I would consider saying something I haven´t gotten knowledge in I am on very heavy waters. I therefor never get myself into those situations. When I say something to someone about something I usually know a lot before I do. This way I can reply to stupid remarks. People often think its okey to say stupid remarks to someone that is ugly. People often take sides with the beautiful people is my experience, even though they are wrong. However when checking facts people often find out I am the one who is right. I never try to get into discussion in subjects I haven´t first looked at from different perspectives in real life. Things are very seldom black or white. Most things are grey. It´s just about defining if something is black or white.
I happen to think its wrong to judge a person by their looks. Plain wrong. That is written in black ink. There is no grey or white area, it´s allways wrong to judge a person by its looks.
A person, in this case employers, are plain stupid and will live to regret choosing looks over skills. It will bite them in the ass one day. Just saying.
Source for discrimination of fat people in Swedish work market:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/incoming/article15725768.ab (20121105)