Fatphobe

The Thursday special of sweet/sour spareribs in a pineapple sauce is a joy, but not for the fatphobe.

I prefer this — the pork fat made the sauce a little too oily for absolute comfort, and I am no fatphobe, as you know — and more pointedly so do my children.

And clearly, so do a lot of other ladies around town—you know, the no-cream-in-the-soup crowd, the no-butter-in-the-risotto customer, your garden-variety fatphobe.

Here's a perfect reply to a fatphobe: "It's not my fat you hate, it's yourself. And you have every reason to."

What if my seatmate was a sadistic fatphobe who would lean on our shared armrest just to see me wince in pain as it dug into my hip?

Fat girls everywhere thrilled to Tracy Turnblad, Ricki Lake's unforgettable character in John Waters's 1988 movie Hairspray: a round, rebellious teen who remained outrageously self-accepting in the face of fatphobes.