It is the human condition, Screw, to categorize. It's part of how we learn. If you see an object up in the sky, you're probably able to categorize it into "bird," "plane" or "cloud." Or you make a whole new category in your head, if the object doesn't fit into these.

Yes, there are many gradients in political thought (I am a conservative because I am identify as conservative, but have quite a few liberal leanings) but these two words of "conservative" and "liberal" carry literary weight. When I say "conservative," you probably don't think of a carrot, correct? You materalize something in your head that is probably different from what I materalize, but you can hold up your image, and I hold up my image, and they are probably somewhat comparable.

I also found the "Americans" jab inappropriate, partially because Pixar themselves do not come out and say "Look these are Americans! Look!" so the comment has no relevance to the movie, and also because it promotoes the sterotype that anyone who is fat.... is lazy. Of course, SOME obese people are. But some others are perfectly active and perhaps have an unhealthy relationship to food. Or, they're active (in "having a job" sense) but don't have the money for a gym membership. It's a crack that manages to be narrow-minded both about Americans (show me a country that is our size and our diversity that is comprised of skinny people. Russia? Hey, alchoholics! China? Hey, Asian people who are by the large-no pun intended-smaller than Caucasians) and people with weight problems.

So, brilliant, Dana, you've now painted yourself into a corner of being intolerant of anyone whose weight does not match your pre-conceived notions. Your bias also seems to travel in only one direction; I'm just waiting for the day when you make a "joke" about skinny people in a movie being reminiscent of French drug users.