Ooh, zeitgeist!

So the Grauniad is on the fat discrimination case. Clearly the hot button topic of the day.

Let's be clear: I don't think there is any justification for the "fat isn't that unhealthy" argument. I don't believe that truly obese people are genuinely happy with their size. Of course I don't believe that obesity is purely genetic — of course it is primarily a lifestyle problem. I do believe, with the writer, that the fat rights campaign is largely (sorry) a question of transference. But does that make it okay to judge a person based on their size? Or to criticise them in shockingly personal ways "for their own good"?

Speaking as someone with just a little bit of chub, I think it's that kind of attitude — which even the writer doesn't really manage to suppress, despite her noble efforts — that makes it all the harder to deal with a weight problem. Like I said before, it may be childish. But it is still so.