Fattism and the Marie Claire Article

I checked Twitter this morning and saw a few comments from fellow bloggers about a Marie Claire blog post. Clicking onto the link, the title alone made me sick:

Should Fatties Get a Room? (Even on TV?)

Yes, the article is as bad as you might expect. Maybe worse.

In response to a new TV show called “Mike & Molly,” which is about an obese couple that meets at an Over-Eaters Anonymous meeting and falls in love, author Maura Kelly complains that she is sickened by the thought of watching fat people make-out. In her words:

“I think I’d be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other … because I’d be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything. To be brutally honest, even in real life, I find it aesthetically displeasing to watch a very, very fat person simply walk across a room”

What is wrong with the author of this blog post? Or the folks over at Marie Claire who not only apparently prompted the content of the article but decided that it was OK to publish it as well?

It’s not OK. (continues…)