Why do people like Emily?

In reading through other blogs about Top Chef I keep seeing people referring to Season 2's Emily as, oh, edgy, funny, interesting. They love her. Absolutely wonderful. Over the same incidents that made me hate her. WTF?

Okay, first of all, there's the kids thing. Like, oh my god! I sure hope that my ice cream customers aren't kids! It's ice cream, bitch, kids are a normal part of that target market. Give them the ice cream, let them leave, move on. Anyone can deal with kids in tiny doses, except our Emily, who hates kids and apparently took lessons on how to gracefully handle clients one does not prefer from Tiffani Faison. Seriously, if they were serving, I don't know, mixed drinks, would she hope they wouldn't be handing them out to a bunch of testosterone-laden drunks? Because I'd much rather deal with a kid for 2 minutes than one of those for 2 seconds—and I'm not really a big rugrat fan either.

Secondly, there was the whole "fat ass and four teeth" thing. Okay, I realize that it's considered okay to pick on fat people still, but a) I don't think it's okay, b) if you're going to pick on someone for their looks, you better be a beauty queen yourself or you suddenly make yourself fair game for similar criticism, and c) "not enough sugar" is a perfectly valid complaint for ice cream, which most people like sweet. I realize sweet is a foreign concept to Chef Baggy-Eyed, Spare-Tired, Man-Jawwed, Scarily-Pale, Boring-Ice-Cream-Making Emily, but really, that's what most people want, I promise, and did I mention that if you're going to pick on someone else's looks, you'd better be a beauty queen yourself? Guess who I find really significantly unattractive?

What would she have done if the customer complaining was thin? "Like your scraggly-ass thin self has eaten enough ice cream to know what tastes good" wouldn't have been as good of theater, and I bet most of you wouldn't be laughing at it. But, no, it's okay to pick on the fat chick. That's funny. No, it's not. It's a bitchy way to ignore your customer's complaint... and since Emily was crucified during the elimination challenge for a seasoning problem, I bet it was a valid complaint, too.

I think Emily went into Top Chef wanting to be Season 2's Tiffani (they even have some of the same poses and a bit of the same look to them, though Tiffani's far better-looking), and frankly, I don't understand that, because look at how fans reacted to Tiffani... why repeat that? Or maybe she just thought "I will say these things that make me look like a tough woman", which apparently a lot of people bought. But "tough" is not the same thing as "petty-minded bitch", and learning the difference would be a good thing for everyone, especially Emily.