I may be fat, but you’re ugly (and you have frizzy hair)

Q: What do you call someone who looks down on and makes nasty comments about African Americans?

A: A Racist.

Q: What do you call someone who looks down on and makes nasty comments about Jews?

A: An anti-semite.

Q: What do you call someone who looks down on and makes nasty comments about homosexuals?

A: A homophobe.

Q: What do you call someone who looks down on and makes nasty comments about fat people?

A: Catherine.

The “notice a theme” link is down; the owner of the picture has made it private. But if you look at other pictures from the event, you will see people of all shapes and sizes having a good time. You will also notice none of them seem to be really stuffing their faces. Yes, there are large amounts of food (or “boiling fat and blood” as Catty Cathy puts it), but it’s also a pretty big crowd, and we all know that running out of food at a food party is a big faux pas.

But projecting your issues on someone else is a bigger faux pas. And that’s exactly what this blogger did. It only takes a little reading between the lines to figure out that Catherine has food issues. Most fat-bashers do. The naturally skinny people I know don’t go around deriding overweight people, or whining about how it’s hard work to stay thin. They don’t deprive themselves and they aren’t slaves to the gym — they eat what they want and are either blessed with better metabolisms, or smaller appetites, or coping mechanisms that preclude stress eating. No one is arguing that there is a direct correlation between eating too much (or moving too little) and weight gain. But anyone who believes that these are the only factors is just plain ignorant. Don’t believe me? There are people struggling to gain weight, that will tell you it takes more than packing it in to pack on the pounds.

Of course, I can’t really blame her for going after the fatties. Overweight people are an easy target. It’s not cool to go around saying “That’s so gay” or calling people retards.  But it’s still open season on fatties because they have no one to blame but themselves, right? And besides, they can take a joke, can’t they, seeing as how they’re so darn jolly.

But here’s what I do blame her for:

1. Taking a single picture out of context to support a hateful rant (and make no mistake, she was spewing hate as surely as if she dropped an N-bomb or used Jew as a verb.

2. Not coming clean about how her own struggles with food (and her vegetarianism) helped shape her hateful rant.

3. Claiming she wishes Taco Tammy well in her business endeavor after accusing her of serving “nauseatingly nasty shit.” Hypocrite much?

4. That appalling picture at the top of her post (real subtle way of letting overweight people know that you don’t see them as people but as ambulant blobs of lard).

5. That appalling picture of what I can only assume is her own ass at the top of her other blog. If you’re such a bad-ass that you want to tell your commenters to kiss your ass, why don’t you do it on the original blog?

And by the way, she may be a bitch, but she doesn’t look that skinny to me.