Man, remember high school, when you were really getting the fat-positive enforcement? The Fat Kid Gangs ruled with an iron fist. I can’t even count how many times I saw thin girls running from the gym in tears because of the vicious taunting. Sometimes we fat kids would just go up to some skinny person and be fat at them, just for kicks.

Awesome satire, dude.

Now, I don’t think anyone wants their kids to become obese. So if you make it seriously uncool to be overweight, we could raise a generation that will be less heavy.

So no, it is not about discriminating overweight people, it is about protecting the next generation.

Note to Publishers: take a look at the number of hits this site has without being a full year old. We buy books and lots of ‘em – I’m sure all Shaplings will buy a copy for all of their their friends as well! Go bid for the rights of their book now before some other publishing house beats you to it and enjoys all the sweet, sweet profits instead of you.

Then of course, I had to remind her- hate laws have a sick way of traveling until they DO impinge upon our lives. I also reminded her, she of the post gastric bypass (and now in supposed “great health”- yeah, read the sarcasm there!), that now this is one entitlement she has over me. (Isn’t it ironic that she can’t even eat enough to warrant going to a restaurant?) That she is thin and acceptable. I reminded her of how I used to be the interface for our family in the world- as I am “femme” and more classically acceptable versus her more masculine apporach to the world— but since she lost the weight 4 years ago, I became invisible and no longer the first one greeted in company. She is.

I think after our long discussion, she gets it.