The overwhelming majority of fat people have made the choice to not do what is necessary to change a situation which is hazardous to their health, wasteful of resources, and visually repellent. [more inside]
posted by Hat Maui on May 16, 2009 - 836 comments

Enought with the fat haters already. The post was cute, was it really neccessary to mock the photographer's appearance?
posted by alltomorrowsparties on Jan 15, 2007 - 142 comments

Was it really necessary to repeatedly challenge booksandlibretti's answer to this question? How about just letting Bookhouse evaluate her response for himself?
posted by teleskiving on Sep 25, 2006 - 89 comments

I'm kind of dissapointed with the way things turned out in a post I made to Metafilter yesterday. I was hoping to discuss how many of the leaders of the fat acceptance movement are feeders and the consequences this might have in terms of it's future progress. Oh and I also wanted to discuss the new slate piece I linked to. But of 140+ comments, very few seem to even reference the links I made. Most just gave their opinion on fat people . I read all of the comments, and the general consensus seems to be that topics regarding obesity cannot be discussed sensibly at Metafilter. What should I do in the future to make a better FPP and what other topics should I wholly avoid?
posted by skjønn on Nov 4, 2005 - 73 comments

Could we please blame fat people for everything that doesn't go our way more often? It's awesome and not at all bitchy.
posted by willpie on Mar 12, 2005 - 63 comments

Was this really necessary? [more inside]
posted by eilatan on Jun 12, 2003 - 80 comments

Hatred, intolerance, name calling, scatology. This is easily one of the worst Metafilter threads I've ever seen.
posted by ed on Jun 19, 2002 - 97 comments