not just for women anymore

The Smoking Gun! Yet another resource for fat hatred and unnecessary fat slurs!

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/rubenflava1.html

- oversized
- corpulent
- swollen
- two-ton
- elephantine
- XXXXXXXXL (he actually wears an XXXL)
And not expressly slurs for fat, but rather slurs indirectly related to his fatness:
- sweaty
- damp
Because fat people are always sweaty, of course.

What the hell?

I keep trying to figure out what any of these offensive and inflammatory adjectives have to do with the story. The answer, of course, is nothing. But it's still okay to belittle and ridicule someone (especially fat someones) based on their physical attributes, even when their physical attributes have nothing to do with the story. So many people - not only writers - seem to feel not only allowed but compelled to comment on a fat person's size at every opportunity, regardless of its relevance.

Usually this sort of nastiness is reserved for women over a size 8. One might think that there would be a small measure of satisfaction in seeing men treated to the same garbage that we get day in and day out (not that I want to see men treated poorly - but a lack of gender-based double standards is a rare thing indeed), but no. It's just incredibly disheartening.