It's condescending, passive aggressive and rude. Surely I'm not being unreasonable to feel uncomfortable with it?
We're all a mixed bag of sizes and weights, and I should imagine, and quite rightly, that 'fatty watty' wouldn't pass muster at all.
We are supposed to help each other up here, not reduce those who have a bare smidgen of privilege. We all know thin privilege exists, along with every other mindless, ignorant societal division, often egged on by the media and the bitter twist of life on tis earth. But should we encourage it?
Tis expression reduces any woman to insignificance. It's infantilising and unpleasant. Some people are, by nature, fucking small. And as far as I am aware, there is a genetic component to obesity, or at least being on the larger side of the scale.
For centuries we have been pitted agains tone another, as women, in an effort to fit societies standards. I don't blame men, they are unwittingly born into the same system; but we can learn. And we ought to be the ones bestowing dignity and respect on one another, in an effort to screw this impossible, arbitrary system.
If a woman is slender, she isn't a threat to you, to us, or anyone. If a woman is large, same thing.
Let's not turn ourselves into puppets of a rancid patriarchy, internalising standards set by such random and shifting trends. Power lies in acceptance, and looking beyond the surface. A thin woman is a fat woman's ally. And vice versa. At least we ought to be.