Despite our stated interest in fatphobia in fiction (movies, books, etc), we’re still getting troll submissions that depict a fat fictional character as if it was a real submission. My question to the folks who are submitting these is, why do you think they disprove fatphobia and the other things this blog routinely posts about?

Note also that even when we do post one of these without attribution, most of the time someone in the community lets us know it’s fictional and we go back and edit them with the details of what character they’re depicting (like a recent post in the voice of Pam from Archer). So…is it just a game or something? Do you get points in some 4chan forum for every one of these that gets published? Because fatphobia in fiction doesn’t contradict the realities of fatphobia – in fact, as fiction more often then not imports its mores from the current culture, fatphobia in fiction is a strong case for the existence of fatphobia in general.

Just curious as to your point. Because if it’s anything more than for an empty laugh to fill your even emptier life, I’m lost.

-ATL