I was also in school then and I think there were 3 or 4 fat boys only one could have been an obeast though, yes people did say things to them and others then. I think there was only one girl who was obeast though, I see some schools where there are large numbers of them. We know shaming works, we know saying its bad for your health works, look how many used to smoke. It was TV ads and warnings on packets and doctors saying to patients its dangerous to smoke that brought about this change. There is it seems to me a strong resistance to having weight warnings on packets of sweet, cans of pop or crisps and more than the presence of a few idiot bloggers like the we hate thin people tumbler. I feel that big food is pulling strings along the line, as an example a couple of months ago there was a study with a 3.5 million sample size that showed obeastism being severely linked to cancers, heart conditions and a plethora of illnesses. The following day and for the couple of weeks after the Guardian was full of articles from the HAES poison position, how can a news paper do that given the evidence? Either they want more people to suffer or they gain something significant from it, there is a lot similar between the way the HAES lobby behaves and how big tobacco used to talk/behave.