Comments made on this blog are passionate and often inflammatory. Big Fat Blog went so far as to complain about a commenter to his employer.

Apparently, BFB was referring to this post where the comments were “lined with fat hatred”:

While he might be stating a fact, I think a lot can be read into the tone of the post. After all, if he wanted to just say that the table could support a fat person he could just say so; instead he chose to compare this to the tools used at a zoo. Ridiculous.

There’s also a second post Kate_P pointed out that includes more fat-bashing comments from alleged physicians and non-physicians.

Kate_P argued that it was good to see these comments out there to get a bead on what some physicians are thinking, and start asking what we can do to change the way physicians are taught to work with fat people. If a physician is respectful to your face and then posts about you (indirectly) on a blog somewhere, that’s rather unprofessional, no?

Update –
Apparently, some people on BFB think this may have gone too far:

If what he said was soo upsetting, why not contact him directly and tell him why his comment was offensive?!? Why not contact the owner of the blog and complain about the posters? WTF!Does his workplace have to do with anything? Nothing! Seems to me he was a scapegoat for the other awful things the annon posters wrote. But what jmar did is far more offensive to me than what any of those people on that board said.

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Since when did Fat Activism turn into harassing medical professionals at work for doing nothing more than having a supposed opinion that a person doesn’t like? Especially with the second comment in question, which is hardly grossly offensive. If you’re looking for revenge on the true jackasses posting in that community, don’t look for the ONE person you can identify and try to crucify them with their employer. There is no good — NONE — that can come out of that kind of overreaction.