Black Pride, White Pride, Southern Pride, Gay Pride, and now, wonder of wonders, there’s Fat Pride. And Fat Pride is fighting mad at the demonization of the obese in the health care debate.
Marilyn Wann is an author and weight diversity speaker in Northern California who has a message for anyone making judgments about her health based on her large physique. “The only thing anyone can accurately diagnose by looking at a fat person is their own level of stereotype and prejudice about fat,” said Ms. Wann, a 43-year-old San Franciscan whose motto in life is also the title of her book: “Fat! So?”
Weight Diversity… that’s quite a term. Anyway, and without my seeming to be insensitive (which I’m not by the way, all my friends call me Mr Sensitive in fact), do note the curious irony of the option circled from the report:
I think it’s high time that we all make confession of the fact that all these ‘prides’ are nothing but divisiveness and they, none of them, get us any closer to harmonious co-existence.
