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If you even remotely think that saying something along the lines of "the driver is the fat ass lady"- and I can only assume the original post had not capitalized the word FAT- then you are as hypersensitive as they come. It's a physical description meant to give an impression of the size/shape/whatever of the subject. If the poster went on to say something like, "I think she had a twinkie stockpile in the back", "I wonder how she fits through the door", "she was so fat that I thought her car had been lowered, but when she got out it sprang back up to normal height", then you'd at least be heading in the general direction of some sort of weight "issue".
You're making a mountain of fat out of nonfat molehills.
The good people of these boards have been fighting over this topic (while many were decidedly off-topic) a while in your stead, and the overwhelming findings are that there is no such weight prejudice found- even by individuals, let alone pervasive or widespread prejudice.
I'm curious how much longer this thread will last.
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