Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.
I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.
Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.
One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.
Our cultural discussion of fat bodies and how we clothe them has nothing to do with health concerns, the obesity epidemic, or the comfort of fat people. It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we've been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on 'perfect' bodies.
When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known; but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.
People are branded as either 'fat' or 'skinny' from an early age. You sort of never shake it, even if you end up losing weight.
I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.
Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.
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