I saw a promo on TV today for a program featuring two female game show models wearing fat suits on the streets of Manhattan. The segment is being touted as some sort of investigation into how the public treats fat people. One of the models is reduced to tears by the rudeness she experienced.

This isn't the first time I've heard this being done.  One actress who wore a fat suit for a movie role spoke about the experience in an interview, and another model donned a fat suit awhile back to experience for herself the way fat people are treated.

Am I supposed to look up to these people in admiration? As a fat person myself, I find the whole thing almost insulting.  Overweight women (and men) have been saying for years that they face insults and rude stares in public.  Why wasn't that good enough?  Why isn't it that women who really ARE full-time overweight aren't believed?  Why don't these programs wire REAL people with mics and cameras instead of fat suit-donning models who think they are stepping into our shoes for a few hours to "experience what it feels like" and report back to the public that we were right all along?