I was at FroYo World with two (thin) friends today. I don’t know if all FroYo Worlds have TVs that play Disney movies, but this one did, and they were showing Toy Story 2. I was just casually watching when one of my friends said “Hey, this movie is prejudiced against overweight people! Both the villains are overweight.” I don’t think she’s totally familiar with FA, so I wasn’t surprised by her use of the word “overweight” instead of “fat,” but I was surprised she’d noticed at all. I said this was something you could find in a lot of movies, and that’s why upon rewatching Love, Actually, I didn’t like it as much as I had five years ago (this pertained to an earlier conversation). They wanted to know how Love, Actually was “prejudiced against overweight people,” and I told them about the examples of fatphobia/ fat-shaming I’d noticed.

“Well, I’m sure it was all in good fun,” said my other friend.

“No, actually, it’s a really shitty thing to do,” I said. They then started talking about “No Fatties Allowed” and “No Fat Chicks” t-shirts and how those were used in TV shows like Family Guy (I’m not as familiar with that show, so I didn’t contribute as much).

“It’s like that comedian,” the second friend said, chuckling, “who was talking about wanting to start a jihad against fat chicks.”

“That’s horrible,” said the first.

I’m really pissed at the second. I know he finds me unattractive, but thinking it’s funny to start a war against people with my body type? Nope. He can eat shit. Also, I’m not going to keep driving him around. My car has no room for douchefucks and baseless hatred.

(mod note: “jihad’? Intersectionality with racism. -Fatanarchy)