Fat is an empowering anthem that calls out the bigotry, hypocrisy and dimwittedness behind that three letter word. i wrote fat after being called fat several times by people who didn't know me or like me for whatever reason when I was fat at various points in my life. i always found it funny that they always called out the most obvious thing - it didn't take much cleverness so i never gave it much credence despite the fact that I was indeed fat at the time. even though i've since lost the weight and am back to "sample size", I think once you've been fat you always feel that way in your mind. regardless, it's completely irrelevant to who I am. more