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rocktivity

(44,883 posts)
6. DING DING DING! Kdmorris, you're our OTHER grand prize winner!
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 11:33 AM
Feb 2014

Last edited Tue Apr 18, 2023, 12:34 PM - Edit history (9)

...(A)s much crap as overweight women (and men, for that matter...) take from just about every.single.aspect of their lives, this is just another example of over-the-top crap that they have to live with...

Yes, I was being sarcastic. But it paid off -- thanks to your reaction, I now understand mine.

I couldn't agree more that it's over-the-top crap, but it is how lawyers choose jurors. It's one thing to fear that a juror might be creative-minded enough to see through a bullshit legal strategy. But fearing that an overweight female juror would unleash her lack of esteem and life of torment upon an otherwise innocent defendant because she's young and attractive belongs to the days when women were considered "too emotional" to serve on juries at all.


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