empowering a word

[keryx]

Most of you have already heard me and other folk say this often enough that it won't leap out and make you go aha!, but Peggy Elam's blog on the word fat is still a worthy read. I like her take on "offhandedly empowering the stereotype" of fat as negative when we even think "I'm so fat" or even "I can't call myself fat" as if fat has a meaning on its own.