IOW, better to stay semi-consciously cow-like passive in a gravity chair. The theater crowd around me joined me in cheering when "The Captain" struggles to take action against adversity by actually walking, and later actively saving the planet. Fatness was only a token of their utopian passivity.
We might conclude the general public isn't so much biased against fatties as they approve anyone who asserts themselves for the sake of good. Of course, if you believe blubber is good......