I am going to keep this short(ish) because there are much more eloquent posts written by other people about the same topic.

Today an article was posted on the Marie Claire website about the television show Mike & Molly on CBS. I have never seen it but here's the gist: It's a show about two overweight people who start dating and all of the formulaic sitcom hilarity that ensues. Each episode is probably laden with fat jokes because isn't that what overweight people do? Yeah. We spend all day cracking jokes about our rotund stomachs and second helpings of pie.

Actually? Fuck you. No we don't.

Anyway, the article in MC was basically the writer's (can we even call her that? Okay, the BAD writer's) opinion on how she didn't like seeing fat people make out on TV. Or in a restaurant. In fact, fat people's MERE EXISTENCE bothers her.

Are you fucking serious?

It appears that overweight people are the last group of people that we as a society are allowed to say negative things about without serious recourse. If you read the article (Google it. I'm not linking it here) and replace "fat" with "black," "gay" or "Muslim" you will be appalled so why is it okay for her to dribble on for 500 words about her disgust of fat people?

If you were a fat kid you know how painful it is to be teased. I was made fun of every single day until I got to high school. Yeah, I was (am) fat but that didn't make me inhuman.

Are we allowed to make fun of overweight people because they allegedly CHOOSE to be fat? A person isn't born fat, right? Sure, maybe not. But it's still a FUCKING HUMAN BEING and no one deserves to be treated badly or made to feel disgusting by his or her appearance. If you don't want to see two fat people kissing then maybe you should just fucking disappear off the face of the earth.

Thank you.