“Honey, you ain’t fat, you’re huskey!” George Herbert Mead and the Looking-Glass Self

Well, almost everyone in my family was overweight or obese. But, interestingly enough, I think the negative sentiment is worse today. I’m waiting for public sentiment to become so judgmental of fat people that we will rework Santa’s appearance to that of a svelte Arnold Swarzenegger type with a six-pack instead of that big belly. [...]