Our apologies for the lack of updates (I’m posting this on my own; Becky is with me in spirit) - we had all sorts of pesky things such as lives get in the way, though we’ve been able to collect quite a few ideas and topics that will be featured later on. We’re breaking the conversational format here for this particular post because we have a short and sweet question to ask you (and once again, all replies are welcome):

If this supremely rude and unpleasant situation had happened the other way around, if someone plump had been left out of a “Skinny Girls’ Weekend” (and while we’re at it, if the Fat Acceptance Movement had caught whiff of the fact that someone, somewhere, was actually holding something as ridiculous as a “Skinny Girls’ Weekend”), what would the reaction of the FAM have been like?

Because over here at The Shape of Reason, we think that using weight as a criterion of invitation to outings is just plain absurd. Not to mention the fact that a group of “friends” ostracizing one person based on weight, of all things (what was that they said about “acceptance”?) in order to create a “protective enclave” (yes, our jaws on the floor, too) is moronic, rude and unnecessary. We don’t know about you guys, but we don’t need “protective enclaves” from our friends, and we hope you don’t, either. Thankfully, there are several reasonable comments (not all is lost, folks!), but the fact that the author of the post and quite a few commenters actually go on to defend this absurdity leaves us speechless, so we’re handing over the mic to our readers - what do you think about this?