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But picture of fat people most people probably won't. It will appeal to a specific audience fat folk who are picture of fat people already confident enough to march this book up to the cashier. So for those who won't read FAT!SO?, I'll leave Wann the last word. "The 'health' argument is a big old smokescreen for our old picture of fat people friend: fat hatred. When people realize they can't get away with expressing their prejudice against fat outright, they use the health argument instead, but the emotion behind their words is still hatred. I realize that hatred is a strong word. Here's another way to think of it. Our culture currently believes that thin is good and fat is bad. This belief encourages the hatred of fat and the deification of thin.
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