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I don't think it's so much fat people=evil as fat=unhealthy.
MOST adult Americans are overweight and every year the obesity figures go up. The extra weight puts you at risk for a variety of diseases. Short of anorexia or thinness associated with smoking, being small is not in and of itself a health risk.
We eat too much and we are inactive. That is not a lifestyle that I think should be celebrated quite frankly. That is not to say that all large people are unhealthy of course, some people ARE just big. But is that most Americans? I think not.
While it would definitely be good to see a wider variety of body images in the media, especially for women, I think our media is not prepared to handle the issues it brings up, so they ignore it. The bigger Americans get, the more we prize thinness, so I don't foresee it changing in the near future.
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It may be said with rough accuracy that there are three stages in the life of a strong people. First, it is a small power, and fights small powers. Then it is a great power, and fights great powers. Then it is a great power, and fights small powers, but pretends that they are great powers, in order to rekindle the ashes of its ancient emotion and vanity.-- G.K. Chesterton
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