Dear Jack and all Readers:

I just thought about it some more, the ethics of fat joking and I felt shame. Yes, my immediate response to your joking was that I found it funny and indeed I enjoy your sense of humor BUT there is so much pain for so many people over being obese that it is not a laughing matter. Nobody with complete awareness chooses to be obese. It is proven to bring about so many diseases and earlier death and such a deterioration of quality of life, that indeed it is not a laughing matter. I empathize with anyone who might feel hurt from my initial enjoyment of this fat-joking and or fat shaming. And I therefore apologize for my part in encouraging it.

anita