You take away the handicap of obesity, and this person becomes someone else. Take a jolly fat man for instance. You talk to him, and his heart is breaking. He wants to be thin.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

I'm an FFH: a Formerly Fat Housewife.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of the jolly, beanie wearing fat man a side-kick and a legend.