Forgot another one that has popped up so far.

It is the rare society that finds obese women attractive. And no Renaissance paintings do not prove that in the west fat was attractive. The reason there is so many obese women painting in that time period is very simple. The only class where obese women existed as a rule was in the court and money class. The exact group that could afford to have a painting commissioned.

1. Why does everyone always say "fat is unhealthy" but not "thin is unhealthy"? One can be "fat" and healthy or "thin" and unhealthy. Many thin people have diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease ... all the big killers associated with extra weight. But no one ever says "thin is unhealthy." (And I say this as a woman who is currently neither stick-thin nor "fat," though I have been both). (Answer, because it's easier to look at a fat person and say "s/he is a slob" than at a thin person with cholesterol at 220 and polyps in their colon).

I could continue to smoke a pack a day for the rest of my life and never have any issues with my heart or lungs too. But of course that is stupid thing to say.

The risks for diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease, hormone imbalance, joint issues etc are higher for over weight and obese people. That is just a fact. That does not mean fat person A will get any of these but it means that they are more likely to get them.

Sorry but biology does not give a fuck about your PC politics.

2. Today's "fat" used to be the beauty ideal. Perhaps plumper women had more babies than their scrawny sisters, and "fatness" is in part a heritable consdition?

Pink used to be a boys color and ghetto used to refer to Jewish enclaves in eastern Europe but they don't today. And nice to see that your bigotry of thin people and this is not the first time you have shown your bigotry either.

But to answer your point No, todays fat did not even exist a 100 years ago. A 250 pound women has never been an ideal beauty ideal anywhere except for a few small isolated societies.

3. There is no perfect. If ypu're not too fat, then you're too thin. Or too hairy, or too bald, or too pale, or too tan, or your nose is too big, or your chin is too weak, or you've got wrinkles, or freckles .....,

Thanks Dr Phil. But this is a bullshit, You can be a healthy weight that is not too thin and not too fat.

While I don't advocate overeating as a way of life (PS, plenty of thin people overeat as well, they are simply blessed with better metabolism, or they binge and fast, which isn't healthy either), there certainly is a limit to trying to mold ones'self into what People Want. It ain't gonna happen.

Right, people that are not overweight are just lucky. No one has a natural metabolism that will allow them to eat 4000 calories and have minimum levels of activity and not gain weight. Those evil skinny people you see that can eat anything also move around to burn the calories. And I see some more of your bigotry assuming skinny people purge to keep the weight.

If you want to be fat that is your business but it is something you choose to happen to you. It is not natures fault (with the very rare exception).

According to this person's faulty logic, "Each passenger on an airplane pays for the use of one seat, therefore any person who needs more space than one seat is charged more". No; one pays per person or per capita in capitalist societies.

As the fat person is in fact one person, and not two, then they should pay for one. One buys a ticket, mandyhih, not a seat:

Nope you are just wrong. When you buy an airline ticket you are paying for many different things but to put it simply you are paying for real estate. That is why first class and b-class cost more, why aisle seats cost more and why if you are fat you pay for more because you are now taking up more real estate.

The ticket is only a means of giving you a "lease" to the seat they sold you. Ever actually look at that ticket? It will not say GA but will give you a seat number. Which you paid for the use of from point A to point B.

Children often get half price but we don't believe that's because they come in half or sit on half a seat. When it comes to the price of an airplane ticket, there are other factors to consider besides the use of a seat, such as which class one is in (the size of one's bum is not important here; how rich you are is).

Children get half off conditionally. They need to fly with an adult. And that is what the airlines are trying to do fill seats with adults.