What significance does a person's prejudice against women who are overweight make to evaluating a piece of art that happens to have an overweight person in it? It shows the limits of that person's ability to judge fairly artwork that doesn't happen to meet their taste, but what does it prove? Let's say I like dogs and hate cats. Should I then say that a piece of art that happens to have cats in it is awful based solely on the fact that there are no dogs in it? That's just as silly. Either I over come my prejudice about cats, and evaluate the art on the basis of its craft and technique, or I admit I'm too bone headed to be able to see past the fur and am not equipped to judge without taking in consideration the subject. I had this happen to me recently. I happened to make a graphic with a robot in it and one of my friends said he couldn't give me feedback because he doesn't like robots. I pointed out that what I was asking for feedback on was the light and reflections...to me, the subject could have just as easily been a fishbowl for all I cared. It happened to be a robot but it wasn't essential as far as the technique I was experimenting with. But this person couldn't see past his prejudice about robots. Makes him pretty sad as an art critic, doesn't it? But that's no more idiotic than saying art with an overweight woman can't be good art just because it features and overweight woman. And perhaps it is about being threatened, or because people have to live in a fantasy world where everyone is beatiful and perfect and boring. I like the Golden Girls and Half Century Club and the overweight ladies and Gertrude and Bertha and Frank because they give variety to the graphics and let us explore something beyond the Barbie and Ken doll looks. More power to the diversity of life. I think it's a lovely thing.