
When "This is Us" aired on September 20, everyone appropriately dragged Chrissy Metz's character Kate for having yet another defined-by-weight-loss fat story line. Her story was rife with stereotypical fat character quirks like painful clumsiness, disheartening sticky notes written on food containers, and self loathing at fat people anonymous classes, making the whole thing feel trite, offensive, and ultimately downright crazy.
So as a plus-size woman, I was fully prepared to let the hate flow through me for the remainder of the season. But then Tuesday night's (October 20th) episode "The Pool" aired, and everything changed.
Allow me to explain.
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