RantSome: A Personal Soapbox Site

Recent public discussion about the Southwestern Airlines policy of charging fat passengers for two seats sparked a discussion thread in a place... well... let's just say the people who frequent this particular place are usually not the brightest crayons in the box.

Anyway, the topic turned into a big insult-fest to fat people and one of the brilliant participants made a comment that assumed that fat people never get touched or (heaven forbid) have sex.

I'm not going to go into gory details here, folks, but I just wanted to say that I've always been fat (except for a very brief period in my late teens when I was working and never eating and I dropped to a size 14, although this is still considered "fat" by some people), and I've never, never, EVER lacked for male companionship (or female, were I that way inclined; I've certainly had offers). My body size was never a hinderence to people finding me sexually attractive. Okay, so I'm not to everyone's taste. That's fine, because everyone is not to MY taste...

I just wonder why on earth some people are so blazingly stupid that they think that their taste (i.e., a Barbie doll or digitally altered centerfold chick) is necessarily everyone's taste, and that no one could possibly find attractive someone who happens to reside in a body that is currently unfashionable (and the trends and tastes in "beauty" change from era to era and always have, make no mistake about it). The size of one's hips does not always (or even usually) determine the quality or quantity of one's romantic partners.

And on a related topic, why is it considered socially acceptable to make obnoxious statements about fat people? I mean, if you take some of the crap people say about fat folks and replaced "fat person" with "Asian" or with "Indian" or something similar, you'd be making totally socially unacceptable racial slurs.

Say "Italians are disgusting and anyone who wants to have sex with an Italian is obviously desperate and pathetic," and you're going to be socially denounced. But say, "Fat people are disgusting and anyone who wants to have sex with a fat person is obviously desperate and pathetic," and that's okay. It's a matter of "personal taste" or something.

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