Fat Activist Roxanne Gay re: the day she decided to get WLS (alternate title: Fat Shaming Works) After more than 15 years of refusing it, I made the decision to get weight-loss surgery on an ordinary day. At home in Lafayette, Indiana, a young man yelled at me to move my fat black ass while I was crossing a grocery store parking lot to my car. It was the last straw. archive.is/Lt6hw