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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Please do this, because at the moment some "fashionable" fat people are wearing things clearly designed for slimmer people. Like low-rise jeans and belly shirts. San Francisco's gonna have another Summer of Love Handles.
The fallout of the Dan Savage column in which he had the temerity to suggest that only the most exceptionally fit women look good in navel-baring tops was stunning. He got letters from fat-acceptance people saying we basically don't have the right to make aesthetic judgments of what looks bad on people. Having an opinion was oppression to these people.
Fat-acceptance people should probably concentrate on something with broader public acceptance, like wider airline seats: helps you, helps me. I'll march to Birmingham for that one. But the "right" to be free from negative thoughts about your ass? Fatty, please.
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To play Devil's Advocate for a moment, if Savage had merely had negative thoughts about the display of some people's stomachs and asses, only those fat-acceptance people who are also blessed with ESP would have said something. And the ESP receptors don't work too well when they're buried under pounds of flesh.
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