Overweight 'should be protected'

Fat people are individuals, with one thing in common. The urge to bundle together a disparate group of people just so we can prod them with a judgemental stick is a bit pathetic. Fat doesn't equal lazy, or greedy, or anything, really, except having eaten more calories than you've expended. I don't think we have any right to assume why someone's fat, or really anything about someone on the basis of that one fact.

There's no moral judgement to be made - except by self-righteous idiots who value vanity above everything else, and those who happen, by dumb chance, to have genes that accord with fashion.

Very eloquently put.

On several occasions I've noticed an undercurrent of 'fatism' on this forum and to be honest it's rather distasteful. It only serves to undermine what is otherwise a very inclusive and welcoming place. Any overweight newbie reading this thread could easily (and rightly so) be put off their plans to lose weight and get fit.

In terms of contributing (aren't fat people all lazy?) I've paid over £100,000 in taxes over the last 3.5 years of my previous job, not bad for a fat cunt. So stick that in your skinny jeans and smoke it.