Reply #60: What's the average Joe supposed to do?

[BlooInBloo]

Granted, making fun of fat people isn't even on the table, but I suspect that even if fat people weren't made fun of, there would still be "complaining" in one form or another.

While most guys (that I know at least) don't care for the Calista Flockhart/new Lindsay Lohan gaunt, skeletal, anorexic look, neither are they attracted to humungously fat women. I assume (correct me if I'm wrong?) that most girls are not terribly turned on by a humungously fat man. As far as physical attraction goes, I think most people are somewhere in between: some meat on the bones can be a fine thing, but roll after roll of fat is something altogether different. Typically. Generally. On average.

I get the feeling that fat people want more from society than simply freedom from ridicule. I get the feeling that they want to be regarded as actively attractive and desirable - and that the rest of us who *aren't* attracted to them are somehow at fault. And the fact that many of us aren't attracted to them is *treated as* ridicule.

Does that make sense? The difference between (being raked over the coals) and simply (not being widely held to be physically attractive) ?

Is there anything like a real issue here? Or am I just being an asshole? (Not meaning to be an asshole, but I'm not the brightest guy in the world.)