The cartoon itself is not malicious, but the meaning is all too real: If your body is 'the bad kind,' others will tell you, even if – like that meddling avocado, its confused little grimace the proverbial facial gesture of condescending ungraciousness – they haven't been asked. Because the fat in human bodies is a stigma, or a punchline, or an asset, depending on whether it pleases or repulses the eye of the beholder. One of them is crying and the other is chasing after it, apologetically pleading via speech bubble 'I said you're the good kind of fat!' Because the fat in avocados is monounsaturated. Two anthropomorphic avocado halves are in a fight. A few weeks ago, I came across a cartoon that enraged me:
