Comments on: WSJ on Fat People: Many Greats in History http://biglibertyblog.com/2009/11/20/wsj-on-fat-people-many-greats-in-history/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:17:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: whatever1999 http://biglibertyblog.com/2009/11/20/wsj-on-fat-people-many-greats-in-history/#comment-1159 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:09:39 +0000 http://biglibertyblog.com/?p=700#comment-1159 I’ll give him a C-. More or less well-meaning, but he takes a literally deadly subject way too casually.

And, he left out Thomas Aquinas.

]]> By: goodbyemyboy http://biglibertyblog.com/2009/11/20/wsj-on-fat-people-many-greats-in-history/#comment-1158 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:34:28 +0000 http://biglibertyblog.com/?p=700#comment-1158 It honestly didn’t strike me as a positive piece at all. It basically just pays lip service to the idea that fat people are people too while relying on the “hurr hurr fat people eat all the time” stereotype for most of it’s “humor” and, as always, going back to the “that doesn’t mean it’s okay to be fat!” stuff at the end. It’s pretty typical pseudo-fat acceptance fare.

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