ABSTRACT
The fat activist Marilyn Wann has said, ‘The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people’ (in Rothblum and Solovay 2009: xiv). In this chapter I argue that even if – as popular prejudice suggests – it were possible to draw other inferences from the amount of body fat a person carries, this would do nothing to justify discrimination.
