Beware: Fat Rant

Happy fat ladies who binge on cookies and ice cream and chips and dip in private.

Okay -- so you're fat and you don't care, you love yourself anyway. Congrats! You are so lucky, since all the fat people I have ever known have been steeped in self-loathing. I say more power to you -- go out and get yourself a new bag of Oreos.

Here's my gripe: Fat women in bikinis, or worse, their underwear, posting their photos all over the Internet, and commenters writing things like,"You look fabulous!" and "You go girl!" and "You are beautiful!" for reasons I don't understand. Nobody fat looks fabulous, and everyone knows it.

"Fat acceptance" is a ridiculous concept. Fat people are addicts. Do we congratulate heroin addicts, or alcoholics, applauding their self-destructive behavior to spare their feelings? No, of course not.