Now they're stealing the word "Athletic" Mr. Ferret was helping one of his single (non-fat) friends set up an online dating profile. They were screen sharing, and after they finished creating the profile, his friend asked for a woman's opinion. I made a few suggestions, Mr. Ferret's friend made a few changes, and he started looking at the female profiles in his area. Since they were still screen sharing and I was sitting beside Mr. Ferret, I could see and hear what they were talking about. "This one's cute," says Mr. Ferret's friend. I lean over and have a look at the screen. Round face, MySpace angle, and the photo is cropped just below her chin. "She's fat," I said. "You think everyone is fat," Mr. Ferret replied. "Her profile says "athletic." One of them (not sure if it was Mr. Ferret or his friend) opened the profile on the screen. It was all headshots, all at MySpace angles. "Definitely fat," I said. "There's no body shots." "There's one," Mr. Ferret says, as he points to the last photo in her profile. She's on a snowmobile in bulky winter gear (including helmet) and the photo was taken from at least 15 feet away. Hard to tell the exact level of fatness, but I'd put her at smallfat as a minimum, probably approaching the obese category, if not in it. Mr. Ferret's friend started reading the profile out loud, which was written with several spelling and grammar errors. Then he got to this part (and I'm paraphrasing here): "I have recently started exercising and I love it! I just started 2 months ago and I go to zumba classes twice a week. It's a lot of fun." I burst out laughing. "Still think she's not fat, you guys?" I taunted. "You see it at our gym, Mr Ferret. It's only ever fats in the zumba class, flailing around and giving a half-assed attempt at fitness. She just put "athletic" on her profile so that hers would show up when people searched by that body type." His friend cut in. "Well, she writes like she's half brain dead, that's not somebody I want to talk to anyways." Mr. Ferret's friend is actually an intelligent, decent-looking guy who wants something serious, not some bimbo dependapotamus. He told us he would have a look later on his own, and said goodbye. It just infuriates that these heifers think they can use descriptors like "athletic" or "toned" or "fit" to describe their fat asses. Just because you go to a class twice a week doesn't make you "athletic". Hell, I'm at the gym pretty much every day and I'd hesitate to call myself "athletic" because while I'm thin and have some muscle tone, I don't look like a fitness model. They've already taken "curvy" from us, I'll be damned if they take "athletic" too.