Fats seem to think of the scale as some sort of demigod that influences human minds, or a sentient being that hates and judges them; they don't understand that it's merely a tool that tells them how much they weigh. There are a number of videos on YouTube of fat women smashing or otherwise destroying their scales, often while screeching at it about how it won't make them feel bad anymore and/or grunting like the pigbeasts they are, and I always watch these through tears of laughter at how ridiculous they are (they being both the women and the videos). Like, oooh, you've really accomplished something there, Conan! You showed that completely unimportant inanimate object with no actual power who's boss, and that boss is you! Wow, I bet that hunk of metal really feels awful now for the way it treated you, telling you your actual weight when you asked it to! Shame on it! I mean, seriously. WTF do these dumb cunts think they've accomplished there, aside from showing the world how ridiculous and childish they are, and giving us something to point to when people ask why we think women aren't capable of handling the workplace?^ It's like those videos with the fat women standing on scales whose numbers have been replaced by pictures of smiley faces or words like Queen, and instead of saying "weigh," they say "Yay." "I yay Beautiful!" Yes, that's wonderful, dear, you made a scale that lies to you because you somehow think words are magic and that calling fat "Amazing!" means fat actually is amazing. Except it isn't, and you know it, because if you didn't you wouldn't need a scale to lie to you about your weight. Sigh. Is there anything women won't make utter fools of themselves over? (^ I don't actually think all women are incapable of handling the workplace, btw. It just sounded better/more succinct to say it that way than to go on some big deatailed OT explanation. I'd trust pretty much any shitlady here with any business on earth, in a heartbeat.) (Also, since the star italicizes, I used the carat.)