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Fat Monica is fattist. Yes or no?


Don't get me wrong, I enjoy laughing at the obese as much as the next person, as they cram their fat gobs with pastries, biscuits and cheesecake while whining that "it's glandular".

However, by today's standards would fat Monica be considered offensive to the fat fraternity's feelings?

She is mocked about it, and is portrayed as an imperfect person whilst being fat.

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She is mocked about it, and is portrayed as an imperfect person whilst being fat.

Is she really portrayed as an imperfect person? Or is she perfect when she is thin? There are plenty of jokes about her having been fat in the past but not in those flashback episodes when she is actually shown as fat. There she mostly comes across as naive and bubbly, but not imperfect. The only one who even mentions the fact that she is fat is Chandler and it makes him look immature and selfish. Plus when Monica gets thin it's shown that her problem wasn't really that she was fat. Being thin didn't solve all her problems. She's still Monica, fat or thin.

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Good points.

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I reject the entire "ist" concept.

No, it isn't "fattist" and if anyone in life takes it that way than that's on them. They can be offended if they choose, but there is just way too much of people going out of their way these days to be offended by everything and people don't let things roll off their backs and get on with life. Many just dwell on whatever it is that "offended" them, they revel in their victim status and they won't rest until they get the thing offending them changed or removed or banned or people fired.

No, not fattist.

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That post is true about every aspect of life today it seems. I think people just sit around waiting and watching for something to be offended about. The level of manufactured outrage is absurd, especially the politically motivated outrage, the intensity of which is always heavily dependant on the target.

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