Discrimination against fat people

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Discrimination against fat people is the last socially acceptable form of prejudice. They're the brunt of jokes, cruel remarks and unsolicited 'helpful' remarks from complete strangers who have been known to offer comments on everything from the selections in their grocery baskets to their entr�e choices in restaurants. Recently, in separate 'investigations,' both supermodel Tyra Banks and Entertainment Tonight correspondent Vanessa Minnillo donned 350-pound 'fat suits' and reported back the astonishing news that fat girls have it rough! Both of these genetic lottery winners tearfully complained to their respective audiences that they were 'invisible' to many while being ridiculed outright by others. ('Three people turned and laughed right in my face!' exclaimed Banks.)
The good news -- from a humanitarian point of view, anyway -- is that these times may be a-changing. According to new market research by major opinion polling firm NPD, America's attitudes toward overweight people are shifting from rejection toward acceptance. Over a 20-year period, the percentage of Americans who said they find overweight people less attractive steadily dropped from 55% to 24%.
Many argue that these figures may not reflect what people actually feel. Kelly Brownell, PhD, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, has been quoted as saying that these studies don't necessarily pick up on implicit, unconscious bias. 'It's like if you asked people around the country if they had racial bias.