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(26,371 posts)Being fat has caused me to get more personal ugliness from the world than being gay or poor ever did.
I could not believe the difference in how the world treated me when I finally did get manage to lose about 80 pounds. No more stage-whispered remarks about my weight ("We better get to the buffet before he does!" , no more ugly looks from strangers, no more of the rest. People treated me with more respect. They were friendlier to me. It was night and day.
The fat jokes around here are sickening, but hey, welcome to the brave new world of "community standards," where pretty much anything one might find in a Youtube comments thread or on a Yahoo message board is now appropriate for DU. At least we're not quite down to the level of 4chan yet.