Hillel Schwartz Fat And Happy

Hillel Schwartz, author of "Fat and Happy?", writes about the vindication of fat and a fat utopian society. Schwartz is vastly abrupt and uses many hyperboles, throughout his writing. Schwartz effectively explains that fat people's unhappiness is swayed by citizens, dieting causes frustration, and physicians have a negative connotation with the obese culture (Schwartz 180-182). In contradiction to Schwartz's useful explanations, he describes an unrealistic utopian society, and makes immense and immeasurable generalizations. In conclusion Schwartz, ineffectively conveys a fat utopian society; however, holistically explains society's feelings towards fat people effectively

At the beginning, Schwartz writes how the community around the fat people is to blame, particularly the citizens (179). He uses commercials and common phrase to justify this argument(179). He compares fat people to "persecuted like minorities", implying that they are ridiculed due to their unique condition (180).Schwartz also states, that society will not be satisfied, until all fat people are gone (183). The author of "The Problem with Fat Jokes, Romeo Vetilli, claims that we live in an "anti-obese society." Schwartz persuades the reader to agree with him by using emotional appeal and common phrases. Schwartz goes on to talk about how dieting causes frustration (180).

Schwartz also uses a court case, to back up his argument, about a woman discriminated against at her job (181). Schwartz describes different "solutions", that society has created, to cure dieting (180). Schwartz claims there is "no end to dieting" (180). In the article "Popular Diets", they list a very extensive list of diets; therefore backing up Schwartz statement. Schwartz effectively gives readers insight on the feeling of frustration, when being fat. Schwartz goes on to explain the way physicians feel about fat