The Bulge And The Beautiful

The Million Pound March doesn't exactly have a cadence, but it is rad

We've stopped calling short people dwarfs. We've stopped calling disabled people handicapped. We've stopped calling lots of people lots of things we always called them. But the XXXLs of the world have a message for us. It's still O.K. to call them fat, as long as you don't make fun of them. "We're fat! We're here! Get over it!" was the cry at the recent Million Pound March here, a celebration notable for the fact that nobody actually marched anywhere.

Some of the 200 mostly female attendees, who ranged in weight from chubby to barely making it out of the bus,...

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