Fat is considered one of the greatest insults you can tag someone with in America. This is doubly so for women in America. If you are on the fence about the truth of this statement, imagine a man walking up to a woman and calling her fat, he'd be lucky to escape with both of his eyes and his testicles intact.
Considering the fact that "fat" is one of the biggest insults you can hurl at someone in America, it always seems to either hit too hard or not hit at all. There are an immense amount of fat people in this country who are simply doing nothing about the fact. The insult just has no effect whatsoever.
The insult truly hits home when used on people who actually are not fat. It is an odd paradox, but the insult rings true to people who are not fat but who are not naturally very skinny. This evolves into nasty results like eating disorders, low self-esteem, and an unwillingness to accept it when others tell them that they, in fact, are not obese, fat, nor overweight.
Personally, I paradoxically wish the word "fat" in America held more power and less power at the same time.
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