NPR just did a piece on Fat Acceptance today. I'm sure that if you want to hear this story yourself, it will probably be available on NPR's site, if not available right now. It was everything you would expect it to be. A particularly porcine reporter was oinking up and down about how none of her co-workers gave her special treatment, or enough respect for being 26 years old and edging on 300lbs, so she got salty and sent her boss a bitchy email, and posted semi-nudes of her flab on her tumblr blog, like someone totally devoid of self-respect is often wont to do. She then goes on a monologue about how she feels marginalized in society, how the white man is keeping her down, et al. Here's where the shit gets good. The second story flips all the shit around when an ex-fat is interviewed. She went on and on about how her friends and family told her that her weight was a health detriment and also not going to get her that acting career she wanted. After years of refusing their advice, she finally bit the bullet and lost the weight. Now that she became human again, by dropping a triple digit number from her body, she realized that people actually treat her like a human being, she got her job in showbiz, and discovered how much better it is to be of respectable weight, because people don't see her as the human trainwreck she once was.