Dear Editor and publisher and "journalists" of the Daily Mail:

You know, fat people have been treated like rubbish by the "perfect" people for decades. It's time for it to stop. Now. Today. This very second.

We have the power, we can do it.

I only get 10 min. breaks at work, so it doesn't allow me time to peruse The Times, The Guardian, The New York Times or Washington Post. It does allow me time to check out the "easy reader" stories in rags like the Sun and The Daily Mail.

One thing I've noted about the Mail, is that they HATE fat people. I mean, hate. Like the Nazi's hated the Jews, and Republican conservatives who hate anyone who isn't white anglo-saxon American and a gun owner, and homophobes (and a certain anti-Christ Kansas minister) hate gays, like the KKK hates blacks, and Christian Fundementalists hate anyone who's not a Christian Fundementalist, etc., etc., The Daily Mail seems to have a real problem with the overweight...esspecially, they seem to delight on picking on fat women, school kids and the poor...the most vulnerable--easy targets.

For example: if a female celebrity gains five extra pounds, she makes big headlines in the mail--as if the extra poundage was something to be abhored, much in the way people treated HIV patients back in the 1980's---fat, to those who work and publish the Daily Mail, is the new leprocy of the 21st century.

If someone is too overweight to work---because to work, would mean they might suffer ill health and/or DIE, rather than encouage people like this, to pursue a regain to health in a sensible fashion, like any INTELLIGENT, RESPONSIBLE human being would do---the Daily Mail instead, treats these unfortunate people, pretty much the way blacks were treated in the Deep South, 50 or 60 years ago---go to the back of the bus, don't drink from our water cooler, don't use our rest rooms, eat at a seperate table, live in a seperate area.

This sort of behaviour is so wrong, on just so many levels, that, in this day and age, it's staggering.

It takes courage to care. It takes balls and hair on your chest (assuming you're a guy), to do the right thing. It takes effort to be a hero, and stop and think about your words and actions, and how it may hurt an innocent person.

It takes NOTHING to do wrong. It takes ZERO to be mean.

The people at the Daily Mail--and EVERYONE like them...are ZEROS. I can't be any more honest and blunt than that.

So, we fat people, need to stand up for ourselves. STOP READING THE FLIPPING DAILY MAIL! Period. Let them know--if they hate fat people so much, then fat people will no longer read their rag. They won't buy anything from anyone who advertises in their rag...until the Mail stops their hate campaign against the fat.

We're human beings with extra poundage, but we ARE human beings. If you don't like us--too bad. Get some THERAPY. You are the one's who are insecure, NOT us! I'm fine with my weight. I am who I am, and if people don't like me, ONLY because I have more pound then they do---oh well. If you are so terrifed of fat people, go hide in a closet and suck your thumb, ya' big girl's blouses.

I am woman. I am fat. I have the power to write your advertisers and tell them I won't buy from anyone who condones weight discrimination. I will not be made to feel like a second-class citizen, based only on my looks, and not based on who I REALLY am, as a person. I am playwrite27. I am here to stay. So there, ya' close-minded, shallow, insecure little dimwads!

Very sincerely,

playwrite27

PS: It doesn't feel very good, having people you don't even know, calling you names, and treating you badly, does it?