katieklassified: pluseyes: QIAN JIN ZU HE, girl band, punningly translated as “1000 pounds”, who I have not heard of before why? NANJING, China — On the street, they are often the target of laughter or cruel whispers. Individually, they have all been denied jobs or their parents’ praise. Onstage, however, the four members of a singing group known as Qian Jin Zu He are strong and confident, belting out their signature rap song, “So What If I’m Fat,” passing out photographs of themselves and signing autographs. The lead singer, 26-year-old Xiao Yang, is 375 pounds; the others in the group are between about 200 and 300 pounds. Together, they tour the country, performing at nightclubs, paint factories, garment industry conventions and shopping malls. Look at how horrible this is: Discrimination against the obese is inevitable, Wang said: “It’s how society is now. Employers have countless choices. They can easily turn down a fat person and choose a better-looking one.” It was against this backdrop that Xiao struggled to make a life for herself. Growing up in the city of Xuzhou, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, she took weight-loss pills at 5. Her embarrassed parents refused to hold her hand in public and enrolled her in what she recalls as a “devil eating program” that allowed participants to eat only fruit and drink only water. Xiao recalled being rejected from three technical schools because of her obesity. She had wanted to become a chemistry teacher; though her test scores were not low, she said, officials feared she couldn’t stand up in a classroom for 45 minutes at a time. Jesus. katieklassified: pluseyes: QIAN JIN ZU HE, girl band, punningly translated as “1000 pounds”, who I have not heard of before why? NANJING, China — On the street, they are often the target of laughter or cruel whispers. Individually, they have all been denied jobs or their parents’ praise. Onstage, however, the four members of a singing group known as Qian Jin Zu He are strong and confident, belting out their signature rap song, “So What If I’m Fat,” passing out photographs of themselves and signing autographs. The lead singer, 26-year-old Xiao Yang, is 375 pounds; the others in the group are between about 200 and 300 pounds. Together, they tour the country, performing at nightclubs, paint factories, garment industry conventions and shopping malls. Look at how horrible this is: Discrimination against the obese is inevitable, Wang said: “It’s how society is now. Employers have countless choices. They can easily turn down a fat person and choose a better-looking one.” It was against this backdrop that Xiao struggled to make a life for herself. Growing up in the city of Xuzhou, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, she took weight-loss pills at 5. Her embarrassed parents refused to hold her hand in public and enrolled her in what she recalls as a “devil eating program” that allowed participants to eat only fruit and drink only water. Xiao recalled being rejected from three technical schools because of her obesity. She had wanted to become a chemistry teacher; though her test scores were not low, she said, officials feared she couldn’t stand up in a classroom for 45 minutes at a time. Jesus.

katieklassified:

pluseyes:

QIAN JIN ZU HE, girl band, punningly translated as “1000 pounds”, who I have not heard of before why?

NANJING, China — On the street, they are often the target of laughter or cruel whispers. Individually, they have all been denied jobs or their parents’ praise.
Onstage, however, the four members of a singing group known as Qian Jin Zu He are strong and confident, belting out their signature rap song, “So What If I’m Fat,” passing out photographs of themselves and signing autographs.
The lead singer, 26-year-old Xiao Yang, is 375 pounds; the others in the group are between about 200 and 300 pounds. Together, they tour the country, performing at nightclubs, paint factories, garment industry conventions and shopping malls.

Look at how horrible this is:

Discrimination against the obese is inevitable, Wang said: “It’s how society is now. Employers have countless choices. They can easily turn down a fat person and choose a better-looking one.”
It was against this backdrop that Xiao struggled to make a life for herself. Growing up in the city of Xuzhou, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, she took weight-loss pills at 5. Her embarrassed parents refused to hold her hand in public and enrolled her in what she recalls as a “devil eating program” that allowed participants to eat only fruit and drink only water.
Xiao recalled being rejected from three technical schools because of her obesity. She had wanted to become a chemistry teacher; though her test scores were not low, she said, officials feared she couldn’t stand up in a classroom for 45 minutes at a time.

Jesus.