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more about #fatacceptance more comments โ SurferWomyn: I am being really honest here so please enlighten me (nicely) on your thoughts on this. I understand that the man that this story is about was obese ... more » MoonCat82: i feel for this woman. my mother, younger brother and both of my younger siblings are obese. i love them all so much and i don't want to do any of tha... more » cnphair: Obesity is not healthy. But being "fat" by fashion's standards is not the same thing as truly, medically obese. A size 14 is not obese. It is not "fa... more » Raised-byHeathens: One thing that is never present in these articles is the underlying class tension that fat acceptance riles up. While in earlier cultures, being plump... more » KikiCanuck: I'm starting to lose hope that we will ever get to a place where thin and healthy are not synonymous, at least in terms of people's first reactions. I... more » pesematology: So she can accept that his compressed disc, diabetes, emphysema, and heart problems, but fat (someone else's, natch) is something she just refuses to ... more » AgainWithFeeling: I'm sorry for Ms. Shriver's loss of her brother, and given her brother's poor health at the time of writing I understand her anxiety, but I can't help... more » Sarah Dove: I thought 'fat acceptance' meant accepting fat PEOPLE and not being a dick to them, and accepting that fat people are not necessarily unhealthy, rathe... more » Valkyrie607: I feel for Ms. Shriver. Her brother died and perhaps if she had just pushed him a little more to control his eating (or whatever she tells herself lat... more » andromedeia: I think the perceived relationship between health and weight that people have is so interesting. I'm 6'4" and I used to be around 235 lbs, which was m... more » Zombies make the heart grow fonder: A healthy at any size argument fails when the example used, as the case here, is not healthy at all and experiencing health issues which are directly ... more » karmasutra รคr svensk: I just hate how in public, if someone sees a skinny person eating a cheeseburger, it's like 'Oh, that's okay, s/he's skinny!' but if you see a heavier... more » activearchivist is lovely, in a moist, fluffy sort of way: I wanted to leave this as a reply to those who find HAES harmful, but there's a lot of them, and I think I can be more relevant up here. As someone s... more » Kitty: "...points out that fat characters in Disney films are always evil, and asks, 'when is fat Cinderella?'" I'm going to have to disagree with that. Th... more » snowmentality: Yeah, it's about HEALTH at every size. The goal of healthy living -- including a healthy amount of enjoyable physical activity, and a nutritious d... more » -
#weightymatters
"I Won't Simply Accept That My Brother Is Fat"
In a disturbing essay in today's Guardian, Lionel Shriver (not pictured) writes about her brother's obesity, and why she can't fully get on board with fat acceptance.
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#clips
GMA: Forget More To Love โ Men Still Prefer Skinny Women
Good Morning America discussed the controversy surrounding More To Love today. Eliminated contestant Kristian Allbright says the show makes larger women think, "Wow, they're beautiful. I must be beautiful," but GMA presents scientific evidence to the contrary. Clip at left. -
#airfair
Discrimination Lawsuit Revealed As A Joke
A recent article about an overweight woman who was told "I'm sorry, but you're too fat" by EasyJet airport security has been denounced as a hoax. However, EasyJet policy does allow workers to "suggest" fat passengers buy two tickets. [Telegraph] -
#bigproblems
"Happy" Fat Acceptance Anniversary? 40 Years, Not Much Progress
Today, July 31, is the 40th anniversary of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). In the tumultuous '60s, the organization staged a "Fat-In" which involved eating ice cream "while burning posters of uber-thin model Twiggy." More » -
#foodfights
Times Discovers Women Who Don't Diet
Today's New York Times "Thursday Styles" section has (another) article about how some people eschew dieting in favor of eating what they want — even if it doesn't make them thin. More » -
#notablequotable
Fat Studies In The UK Author Takes On Susie Orbach
"It's basically a diet book that pretends not to be a diet book." — Corinna Tomrley, on Fat Is A Feminist Issue [Obesity Timebomb, via The F-Word] -
#badvertising
Fat Acceptance Ad Banned From TV
The ad at left was was created for an Australian show about advertising, which challenged contestants to make an anti-fat discrimination ad. However, the commercial was so offensive that it was pulled from TV. More » -
#bitethis
Kate Harding Isn't Going To Take Shit Because She's Not A Size 4
The Chicago Tribune's Nara Schoenberg has a great profile of writer Kate Harding who, in addition to blogging at Salon, has her own fat-acceptance blog where she's happy to tell people to fuck off. More » -
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#weightyissues
Overweight Women: To Be Celebrated? Or Shamed?
Two recent stories about "fuller figured" women come from completely different perspectives; one is fat-accepting, one is fat-shaming. More » -
#threeletterwords
Why We Shouldn't Be Afraid Of The Word "Fat"
Blogger Kate Harding wishes people would just call her fat — in an essay in Salon, she explains why. More »
