Last Acceptable Prejudice

I was reading some posts from the past few days and came across the one about a degrading commercial that's meant to encourage weight loss I suppose... We have a commercial here where an overweight lady is putting posters on phone poles for her lost hamster and there's a man behind her who notices the hamster is under her clothes.. He reaches under her shirt trying to catch the animal and she maces him and throws a trash can at him.. BUT I am so offended they are saying she's too fat to know she has an animal in her clothes with her??? They couldn't show a bald man with a moving toupee?? Such poor taste.. They couldn't single out a race or someone with disabilities so why can they always pick on big people?? For my birthday hubby took me to a place in Detroit and when we were being seated there were about 6 stairs to the upper dining room and the girl looked at me and said "Can you go up stairs?" I was so embarrassed. Once seated a LARGE man came in and she asked him the same thing!! We were both horrified.. Maybe she meant well but I think she should assume that those who can't do stairs would say so.... OK I'm done whining..

I saw this commercial to, and I actually thought it was pretty funny, not the fact she was obese, 'cause she didn't look all that big to me, but the fact that her bored expression never changed when she maced him -- like she does this all the time. (Oh, and I think he tripped over the trash can and she just walked away.) I agree people are more likely to be rude or insensitive to someone who is overwieght. I think some view it as a handicap, which it can be. That doesn't make it right, though.

Oh, and the commercial doesn't have anything to do with weight loss, I think someone just thought it was funny. I didn't get the impression she didn't know because she was fat, but because the hampster was small.