I also appreciate the focus on England, considering that we just lag a little behind them in implementing things of this nature. Though the countermovements also often start there too; such as F4J. As soon as there’s a counter-anti-fat movement, I for one want to know!

But fear and loss of hope is right. I’ve been feeling a lot of that lately; the impending loss of BFB is just one more blow in a week which has seen the ramping up of fat intolerance, both institutionally and in popular culture. Every newspaper I’ve read or TV show I’ve watched lately seems to be about the new national obsession with other people’s weight; but your list of links is a sobering indication of just how this panic seems now to be reaching fever pitch.

And much as I keep repeating the mantra that there are far, far worse things to be than fat (which should in fact barely register in the list of human ‘transgressions’) the comments I’ve read this week on sources as diverse as the BBC, Daily Mail and Guardian point to one conclusion – that being fat is considered revolting, hideous, irresponsible, and absolutely the worst thing you can be, by the vast majority of the population, and even by most fat people themselves.

Will they still feel that way when the Government take them and their children for compulsory re-education? Will they still beleive that their genetic bad luck or love of TV and pizza mean their fate is entirely justified and deserved? How did reality become so completely and totally skewed, and normally rational people taught that such visceral hatred is not only acceptable but to be encouraged?

I can’t believe that Meme Roth video about Diet Tribe (the show is bad enough.) Why does Fox keep having her on?? And why did they have her on without opposition this time? Disgusting.