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I'm surprised that so many people claim to have not seen the "fat" comments on TFP. I know for a fact that they exist and I suspect that most of us fail to recognize weight prejudice even when it is right in front of us. Some examples: In tilted politics I have seen people comment (I believe in a thread about universal health care) that fat people are lazy and don't deserve to have the same access to health care as skinny people, In the titty bored I have seen many comments calling relatively slight models fat and ugly and here in sexuality just yesterday I read a post about a man trying to make his new girlfriend lose weight (thankfully in this case many TFPers stood up and pointed out that this was not his responsibility).
In most cases I don't think these comments are meant to be hurtful or prejudice, unfortunately sizism is so ingrained in our society that many of us do not think about how our comments might be unfair. To often anti-fat comments are hidden under the guise of "It's not healthy." It is not possible to judge if someone is healthy based only on appearances and is especially impossible to judge this based on words or ever a picture. And frankly it's none of our business. It's never our place to judge someone else’s body or try to force our idea of beauty onto another person.
Alicat: thanks for bringing this up, I hope TFP can continue to evolve into an all embracing community. And, as others have said, when you see prejudice please point it out so that we can all learn from our mistakes.
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