Fat Isolation  On Tuesday over at Shakesville, Melissa McEwan
wrote a really awesome piece called Big Fat Love. She provides a
response to a culture of fat hatred by declaring that she likes
fat people and considering why such an ordinarily benign thing
to say has become an extreme and radical position in our
culture. Even amongst fat people, the social conditioning to
hate fatness is extremely powerful. Its hard to even fathom what
we lose because of this.  In a culture of external and internal
fat hatred, there is no real solidarity among fat people. Well,
at least not any fat positive solidarity. There can be
"solidarity" in apologetic fatness, but can such self-blaming
commiseration really be seen as solidarity? Bonding in self-
loathing is what has been prescribed to us by a fat shaming
culture, but what about bonding through encouragement? Well,
there are risks there. You see an awesome fattie out on the
street and maybe you want to say "yay!" but what if they respond
with embarrassment or resentment? Mo