40 years ago it was the Fat Boy or Fat Girl who got the rough end of the proverbial stick in our schools.
Fat children were different, fat children got bullied, fat children, generally, had a very thin time of it indeed.
Being fat was something that set such a child apart from his/her peers - and, being so set apart, life inevitably became a living hell.
Today, fat children can rejoice in the knowledge that never before in history has there been a better time to be fat.
Not only are there more fat children that ever before - more than enough, in fact, for even the most dedicated bullies to cope with - but there has arisen an entire raft of children who are so startlingly different from their peers that mere obesity pales into insignificance.
Four decades ago there were no openly homosexual boys, nor lesbian girls - and one suspects that even the Headteachers of that era would have been hard pressed to explain what 'gender reorientation' meant.
News that a 12 year old boy has suddenly returned to his school as a 'girl', replete with school skirt and ribboned pig-tails, should be a source of tremendous relief to every fat child at the school - who can now enjoy that fourth Mars bar safe in the knowledge that an ample figure is, when it comes to vying for the attention of bullies, simply no match for a boy-who-insists-that-he's-a-girl, and who has been provided with his own personal toilet and changing facilities while the matter remains unresolved.
The fat boy might, however, experience a twinge of jealousy when he sees the lengths to which the school is prepared to go to defend the latest addition to the register.
A special school assembly, called to warn pupils of draconian action against them if they fail to treat their exotic new classmate as anything other than female - probably with all sorts of criminal convictions in the pipeline for assorted hate-crimes and their failure to embrace diversity with sufficient enthusiasm.
The fat boy might well reflect that his torment, while every bit as hateful and hurtful, never merited such a censure, nor attracted the possibility of the prosecution of his persecutors.
However, the past is the past - and the fat boy can look forward with considerable enthusiasm to a far happier future, in which the school corridors are thronged with boys who want to be girls, girls who want to be boys, girls and boys who want to stay as they are, but who want to have sexual relationships with members of their own sex - a thoroughly modern melee in which his own physical shortcomings are not even noticed.
Unless, of course, he unwisely decides that he wants to be a fat girl, instead....
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2643393/Boy-12-turns-into-girl.html
Fat children were different, fat children got bullied, fat children, generally, had a very thin time of it indeed.
Being fat was something that set such a child apart from his/her peers - and, being so set apart, life inevitably became a living hell.
Today, fat children can rejoice in the knowledge that never before in history has there been a better time to be fat.
Not only are there more fat children that ever before - more than enough, in fact, for even the most dedicated bullies to cope with - but there has arisen an entire raft of children who are so startlingly different from their peers that mere obesity pales into insignificance.
Four decades ago there were no openly homosexual boys, nor lesbian girls - and one suspects that even the Headteachers of that era would have been hard pressed to explain what 'gender reorientation' meant.
News that a 12 year old boy has suddenly returned to his school as a 'girl', replete with school skirt and ribboned pig-tails, should be a source of tremendous relief to every fat child at the school - who can now enjoy that fourth Mars bar safe in the knowledge that an ample figure is, when it comes to vying for the attention of bullies, simply no match for a boy-who-insists-that-he's-a-girl, and who has been provided with his own personal toilet and changing facilities while the matter remains unresolved.
The fat boy might, however, experience a twinge of jealousy when he sees the lengths to which the school is prepared to go to defend the latest addition to the register.
A special school assembly, called to warn pupils of draconian action against them if they fail to treat their exotic new classmate as anything other than female - probably with all sorts of criminal convictions in the pipeline for assorted hate-crimes and their failure to embrace diversity with sufficient enthusiasm.
The fat boy might well reflect that his torment, while every bit as hateful and hurtful, never merited such a censure, nor attracted the possibility of the prosecution of his persecutors.
However, the past is the past - and the fat boy can look forward with considerable enthusiasm to a far happier future, in which the school corridors are thronged with boys who want to be girls, girls who want to be boys, girls and boys who want to stay as they are, but who want to have sexual relationships with members of their own sex - a thoroughly modern melee in which his own physical shortcomings are not even noticed.
Unless, of course, he unwisely decides that he wants to be a fat girl, instead....
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2643393/Boy-12-turns-into-girl.html
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