As a Real Life Fat Woman (RLFW is our preferred acronym) who met my fiancé online, I can tell you that when you're honest about who you are, you can meet lots of great dudes on the World Wide Web. In fact, my Craigslist ad (I'm an old) was all, "I'm fat, I'm smarter than you, and I have a pit bull who sleeps in my bed and she's not getting out. Who's in?!" Pretty obnoxious, right? And yet, hella dudes were in.

Recently, a video went viral of a skinny woman in a fat suit going on Tinder dates. In the video, the thin lady posts bikini-clad pics, gets a bunch of responses from dudes online, and then wears a fat suit when she goes to meet the dudes IRL. Surprise! The guys are total dicks to her! Wait, but are you really surprised at all? Wouldn't you expect kind of thing to happen if you intentionally set out to deceive people?

First, you have to take this video with a grain (actually an entire factory's worth) of salt, because it was created by Simple Pickup, a wonderful group of dudes who teach other wonderful dudes how to treat women like the objects they are. You can check out their masterwork in another video where they walk up to women and start creepily massaging them, or when they ask if they can motorboat a woman in public and even when she says no, do it anyway. The fact that the fat suit video was made by these dudes is enough to justify never looking at it and also burning the entire Internet to the ground.

Secondly, girlfriend in her "fat suit" doesn't look like an actual fat person. She looks like someone fastened an inner tube around her neck and then spray-painted it taupe. It's like they showed a not especially intelligent alien some photos of people and were like, "OK, now go make yourself look like a human. Oh, by the way, the only materials we have are sealing foam and some leftover Halloween makeup. Do your best, girl! Make it work!"

Thirdly, OMG, the lies! Dear Lady/Simple Pickup Clickbait Dumb Dumbs, you lied and you lied hard. If I promised kids at a birthday party that Elmo was coming and then a dude wearing red footie pajamas showed up and started eating the birthday boy's cake and doing the Running Man over all his presents, they would be mad too. (I, on the other hand, might kinda love it?) It's true that women reacted less harshly to the same experiment when they put a built man in a fat suit, but it's not really an equivalent because men and women are taught from a very young age to value different things; girls are nice and boys are honest. As an aside, I can't say that women not speaking up about being deceived is a good thing. They were lied to, and that sucks. I think they should've gotten mad, but that's not a socially acceptable way for a lady to be. In a recent study about work performance reviews, words such as "abrasive," "judgmental," or "strident" were used to describe women in negative feedback 78 percent of the time. For men? Two percent of the time.

Probably the only thing that Simple Pickup got right in their video is that there are plenty of crappy attitudes and feelings toward and about fat women in our society, but this is not a good way to tackle that topic. This is an exercise in shitty deception brought to you by a bunch of gross, sad dudes who forcibly kiss women without their consent/have probably never actually seen a human woman's vagina.

And finally, ladies. If someone asks you to put on a fat suit as an experiment, don't do it. My body is not a joke, and when you act like it is, you are a terrible, shitty, garbage person who is actively participating in the objectification of women. No matter how many times Tyra Banks puts on a fat suit and walks through public to prove ... I'm not sure what she's trying to prove ... she'll never understand the issues of being a Real Life Fat Woman.

When you present yourself as a caricature of a fat woman, you don't bring yourself — or any non-fat people — any closer to understanding another woman's life, and you perpetuate plenty of gross myths and half truths about what it's like to be fat. The main one being, that fat people lie about their bodies to get dates.

And yes, there are plenty of shitty things about being a fatwoman but skinny women dressing up in fat suits explores none of that. It just makes dumb videos viral. Knock it off.

Listen, dating while fat isn't a walk in the park. There are some people out there who don't want to get freaky with fat folks, and that's fine, because news flash: I don't want to get freaky with them either! Lucky for me, many more dudes have no problem with some adorable chub — some even extra like it! — and those are the guys I went on many kickass dates with. And now I'm marrying one of them. Guess things work out if you don't base your relationship on lies? Someone should make a viral video about that for a change.

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Laura Beck Laura Beck is a Los Angeles-based TV writer and frequent contributor to Cosmopolitan.com — her work has appeared in the New York Times, New Yorker, Jezebel, and the Village Voice.

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