Reply To: I hate you all, you big fat jerks

I was only half joking. In our society even the most prejudiced people don’t discriminate against or belittle other races, females ( if they’re male), people with disabilities, or people of certain colors (separate from race, including red hair), at least in public. But somehow it is perfectly acceptable to discriminate against overweight people and to mock them and call them names. It is offensive to overweight people when “fat” is used as an insult, because it implies that being “fat” reflects negatively enough on one’s character to be an insult.