"The way people act, you'd think fat was contagious."

"The way people act, you'd think fat was contagious." It's so true. I want to share a very interesting (funny, sad, etc., depending on how you look at it) story/article I read. Based on witnessing several encounters in which individuals put themselves through uncomfortable situations in order to avoid sitting or standing next to an individual society would deem fat, writer Kim Brittingham had an idea:

One afternoon I was inspired to launch an experiment; to engage in an act of performance art, of sorts. I created a fake book cover with my home computer. Some rectangles of color here, a change in font there, a borrowed bar code, some clip art of a cartoon fat woman on a shuddering scale, and voila! I'd churned out a highly convincing non-fiction book jacket. I wrapped it around a newly purchased biography, and after a little tugging and folding and fun with Scotch tape, I held the book out before me. My heart swelled at the sight of it, my cheeks grew warm. My God. It looked so real.

To read more on Kim Brittingham, her work, and this social experiment, click here.
(P.S. Emme, I think I have you to thank for this)