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Why is it so acceptable to pick on fat people? What's behind the media's attack on fat?

The media seems to be obsessed with fat. Fat people are pictured as having less value in our society. They are ridiculed and discriminated against. The worse part of it is that society is beginning to view anyone who doesn't fit the classic body mold, as fat. News channels will run stories on the evils of being a bully. Then they run 2 more stories about how fat people are draining society. Who's the real bully?

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    Edwin Tjoe

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    Jul 29 2012: Media is the hypocrite. Always against bullying, but their own practices are nothing more than bullying. Society tries to force the ideal image that changes every year.

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