Some clubs you join, others you’re made a part of. And in the case of obesity, the latter is mostly true.
Believe me when I say it’s quite vexing when the overweight are goaded together as a separate entity during communal events. After eliminating the smokers, fatties are the next faction ear-marked for social cleansing and, as such, are treated with the same level of contempt as their nicotine-loving cousins.
I don’t really blame the slender folk for this. After all, they assume that tubby people automatically share a common goal - a principal talking point if you will: “Sure, she’s a peacenik, liberal, with an intense phobia of spiders, and he’s a republican arachnid farmer with a penchant for gun-play - but they’re both ‘morbidly obese’ so bound to get along, right?!”
As you become thinner, your hosts are required to think more about the person underneath. They have to start considering elements of your actual personality when table planning, rather than mechanically resigning you to the table furthest away from the wedding party earmarked ‘chubby corner’.
#007 - No longer seated at the ‘fat table’ during social events.
Image: Thiago Martins
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