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Why is it that when there is a fat woman on screen or in books she is always singular? She is always the outlier, always The Fat One among all her friends, surrounded by skinny girls she cannot go shopping with, cannot trade clothes with. She is always defending her place among them by being funnier, sluttier, meaner, trendier, friendlier, wiser, richer than they are, as if to outweigh her fatness.
