Some of the comments are almost worse than the behaviour the article is discussing. And loads of them come down to - well, so what, they're fat, they deserve it - which incidentally is not a million miles away from the judgmental attitude displayed about fat people on here.
I fail to understand the reason for the vitriol levelled at fat people and how they are such fair game. Fat people as a group may cost the NHS a lot but so do smokers, drinkers, and people with risky lifestyles - motorcyclists, for example. People do criticise all of those other groups for their behaviour but not in the same hate-fuelled way they attack fat people.
I am fat - I eat too much - I like cakes. I also work and have a good job, pay tax and have not taken out of the NHS more than many people do (well, I may have done but only because I had cancer as a teenager (non-fat related)and some of the ongoing repercussions of that may have been a bit pricey). However, the fact that it is hard to find fashionable clothes in my size is my problem, no-one else's. I am not throwing myself at thin, beautiful men demanding they look at me and take me out. I don't sit on non-fat people to make them suffer. I can't infect people with my fatness. So why the hatred? Fat is the fat person's problem. Not anyone else's. Why don't people look at themselves and worry about their own problems ? Apologies about going off-topic a bit, but the fat-hating comments make me so mad.