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I can't speak for anyone else, but if you think that's why you're being lambasted by me, you've missed my point just as completely as you feel everyone else has missed yours.
My only argument in this thread, since page one, is that it's really ugly and uncool to blindly judge people (for any reason, really, but obviously this thread centers around weight). That's it. I don't doubt, not for an instant, that many people are overweight for no other reason than they like to eat. I don't doubt that there are people who are perfectly comfortable with their bad choices and who have made countless excuses to justify those choices. I just don't think that is something we can/should assume about anyone we happen to see walking down the street.
The reason I initially responded to Wild Cobra's post was because I was bothered by the at ude, and I see it often, that says fat and wearing spandex is automatically equal to disgusting human being. That, to me, is a tremendous (and unfair) leap.
And, while I certainly don't agree with the idea that ridicule, regardless the degree or the relationship, is in anyway good or constructive, that hasn't been my main argument with you. If you and your friends are good with it, knock yourselves out; I have a healthy joking relationship with my friends, as well. My MAIN argument with you, the point where I really disagree vehemently, is in the idea that it is okay or right to see someone who is overweight and make an assumption as to how or why they are overweight and/or to make a judgment about that person based on such an assumption. You've argued repeatedly that, hey, everyone does it, which is absolutely true. Everyone does do that. Everyone makes assumptions and snap judgments. I've acknowledged that repeatedly. Even that I'm not free from that behavior myself. My point, once more, is that I think it is really unfortunate that we, as a society, have grown so accepting of (and reliant upon) those assumptions and snap judgments.
