Ha ha, sounds like we met back around the other side.
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If they try to justify looking down on me by making it sound like they just want to give me some old-fashioned tough love...well, I get a little skeptical.
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To me, a lot of the 'fat people need to lose weight' rhetoric that flies around - here in its more subtle form, and elsewhere more overtly - smacks of this 'tough love' attitude. That really pisses me off, because it's cut from the same cloth as just being called a fat-ass. It's like the ol' horseshoe in the boxing glove. Sting in the tail.
'If you lose weight, you'll be happier, have more confidence, feel better about yourself,' implying that I should be a miserable, self-loathing wallflower just because I carry a couple of extra pounds. That's prejudice.