My question is whether or not the kid is fat. If he's fat then the other child was not a bully. He was honest. It may be insensitive to point it out but if the child is fat then they need to cope with people on occasion pointing out that he is fat.
Riiiiight. And the physically disabled kid shouldn't stress about it either because the jackarse is just being honest.
And don't give me that crap about the disabled kid being born with it. My son's preschool has children with moobs. FOUR YEAR OLDS WITH MOOBS.
Are you really going to try and argue that a child has any control over his diet, let alone the knowledge to make the appropriate decisions?
Sure when he's 12 and takes a health class he might be able to put 2 and 2 together and make the changes (we'll ignore for the sake of argument that unless he's shopping for the groceries and making the meals, he's still somewhat limited in his ability to make significant changes). But what about when he's seven and the crap starts? If his mom and dad are anything like the kid in my son's preschool, I have some serious doubts about their willingness to make a whole lot of changes. IOW, it's clear where the children get their eating habits.
If you took the time to read the blog, you'd realize that the "fat" comment was pulled from it, and in the context of that story, the bullying went well beyond simply being called fat. And it could be anything at all. And it needn't be factual to matter.
I don't disagree that children need to learn to adjust to a world that doesn't sugarcoat things for them. But let's keep this conversation in context and not twist it to minimize the points being made.