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"Have you guys noticed that I&amp;#x27;ve never used the F word on this blog? I hate, hate, hate the word. Hate everything about it. Hate the way it sounds. Hate what it stands for. Hate the memories it brings up for me. (Like when, a few years ago, I&amp;#x27;d gone to pick up take-out from a restaurant and when my order was up, the owner said to the waiter--in Greek--take this food to the fat girl. Apparently, I needed no other description and--clearly--he did not expect that I&amp;#x27;d understand what he was saying. To embarrass him, I thanked him in Greek. Still, I knew damn well that I was the one who was more shamed.) And the thing is, regardless of how much weight I&amp;#x27;m losing and whether or not the word still defines me, I can&amp;#x27;t stand hearing it to describe other people, either. In my mind, it&amp;#x27;s a tiny little word that has the power to diminish a person&amp;#x27;s whole being to nothing status. So why am I ranting about this today? Well, I visited a male friend of mine in the hospital over the weekend--and my get-well-soon package included a DVD of The Notebook. (I know, what was I thinking? Not exactly a guy flick!) Just as we were finished watching it, another friend of his came by to visit. &amp;quot;Oh, The Notebook!&amp;quot; he said to my recovering friend. &amp;quot;Man, that movie is going to make you want a girlfriend.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;You&amp;#x27;re right,&amp;quot; I said. &amp;quot;He might start hitting on the nurses here.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Just as long as he doesn&amp;#x27;t hit on that fat nurse,&amp;quot; he said. Seriously?! It didn&amp;#x27;t matter that he wasn&amp;#x27;t talking about me--I was angry. And completely speechless. WHY is it socially acceptable to make fat jokes and disparaging remarks about overweight people? I have to say, I completely agree with people who say that--for lack of a better term--fatism is the &amp;quot;last acceptable prejudice.&amp;quot; Check out this article about a recent study from Yale University. It says that discrimination against overweight people occurs more often than racial bias. Where do you guys stand on this issue?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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