Diners Called 'Fat Girls' On Check

[dmallind]

83. You assume a false dichotomy

In that you can either a) feel guilty about being fat or b) feel proud of being fat. In reality it's not only possible but the most healthy and mature option to be neither of the above.

The issue here is the societal context or loading of the term. US society typically uses "fat" as a pejorative. Whether I think being fat is wrong (I don't) is irrelevant to the fact that the majority of the people, mindless gullible consumers of the shallow Hollywood image that they are for the most part, do think so, and use the term for those who fail to follow the herd. There are few people indeed who use the term in a neutral or positive way, so it is an insult independent of my personal opinion of weight (which, FWIW, is that it is no more indicative of personal value or character attributes than eye color. But until "green eyed" is a common value for X in the sentence "stupid X white suburbanites", as "fat" is now, my opinion is not the one that determines which meaningless characteristic is insulting).