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I've never had a problem with others being fat, as long as their size doesn't inconvenience me or others. As long as I don't have to sit squished up against an airplane window for hours, or pay higher insurance rates because of someone's triple bypass surgery, other people's decision to be fat doesn't bother me.
I have noticed, however, that there are quite a few people who seem to be bothered simply by the existence of fat people. They act as though the presence of a fat person in their field of vision is an affront, and the hateful comments that follow are delivered in the same manner as racist comments. The look is also the same. It's that look that says "great, it's one of those people." Fat people aren't just subjected to disapproval of their habits; there's a genuine hatred for them that's widespread, and that I just can't understand.
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
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