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	Fat acceptance movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fat acceptance movement, also referred to as the fat liberation movement, is a grass-roots effort to change societal attitudes about fat people.
		Fat acceptance covers several fronts but generally can be described as attempting to change societal, internal, and medical attitudes about fat people, despite a great deal of criticism.
		Fat acceptance is a social acceptance issue and has ties and common ground with the feminist movement and lesbianism, as is shown above, and is associated with broader civil rights movements.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fat_acceptance_movement (1093 words)

	Fat Acceptance -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Acceptance does not require that change is possible or even conceivable, nor does it require that the situation be desired or approved by those accepting it.
		Acceptance is sometimes used with notions of willingness: ""Even if an unchosen, undesired, inescapable situation befalls me, I can still willingly choose to accept it."" By groups and by individuals, acceptance can be of various events and conditions in the world; individuals may also accept elements of their own thoughts, feelings, and personal histories.
		Acceptance angle of a fiber is the maximum angle the ray may make with the axis and still propagate down the fiber by total internal reflection.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/52/fat-acceptance.html (1525 words)

	Fat acceptance movement
		The fat acceptance movement, also referred to as the fat liberation movement, is a grass-roots effort to change societal attitudes about people who are fat.
		Fat acceptance covers several fronts but generally can be surmised as attempting to change societal, internal, and medical attitudes about fat people.
		Fat acceptance is a civil rights issue and has ties and common ground with the feminist movement and the larger civil rights movement.
	www.mrsci.com /Obesity/Fat_acceptance_movement.php (746 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Discrimination (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The State of Israel is often accused of discrimination against Palestinians; this topic is discussed in the article on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
		Some New religious movements often claim that they are discriminated for their non-conformist beliefs.
		They claim apostates of these movements are the ones carrying the discrimination.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Discrimination (2015 words)

	Red No. 3: Foot soldiers against fat (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They’ve perverted the term “size acceptance” which was always an expansion of fat acceptance ideas, into a means of turning the movement into yet another diet support group.
		For some time, fat acceptance optimists though we were on the verge of a tipping point in cultural attitudes, but I think its clear this has not been born out.
		Places where it is safe to believe fat acceptance are increasingly scarce and we find ourselves waging the same basic debate over and over and over to every single critic who cannot conceive of people who feel this way.
	red3.blogspot.com /2005/08/foot-soldiers-against-fat.html (998 words)

	MetroActive Features \| Fat Acceptance
		But increasingly, some doctors and nutritionists are saying that the fat acceptance movement is correct in its claim that the health risks around fat have been overstated.
		It may seem odd that the fat pride movement was born in a city known for its arobicized inhabitants, but LA fat activist Idrea Lippman says it makes perfect sense.
		Lippman differs from many in the fat acceptance movement in that she said she "can't relate" to supersize women, even though she sees them as the movement's leaders.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/08.28.97/fat-9735.html (1391 words)

	Fat admirer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fat admiration is a sub-fetish to Fat fetishism
		FAs can be fetishists, only being aroused if fat is involved, or just have a preference for a large partner, like a preference for red hair.
		Many FA's consider popular culture as being dominated by a pro-thin bias, and many FAs are involved with the fat acceptance movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fat_admirer (323 words)

	Posts tagged with fat \| MetaFilter
		Fat is Genetic, from NY Times science writer (and sister of Judi Bari) Gina Kolata.
		Add physical movement, then dance, then sexuality and you have a revolutionary act.” Founder of Big Burlesque and Venus Group, she died Feb 13 after a long fight with ovarian cancer.
		Despite the growing numbers of people who are becoming obese, the fat acceptance movement remains oddly stunted in terms of membership.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/fat (1857 words)

	Fat acceptance movement information - Search.com
		Fat acceptance covers several fronts but generally can be described as attempting to change societal, internal, and medical attitudes about fat people, despite heavy criticism.
		Organizations such as the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) and the International Size Acceptance Association (ISAA) are small in numbers, and people interested in the movement tend to be clustered in larger cities and spread across medium- to small-sized web communities.
		Fat acceptance is a social acceptance issue and has ties and common ground with the feminist movement and lesbianism, as is shown above, and is associated with broader civil rights movements.
	www.search.com /reference/fat_acceptance_movement (964 words)

	Fat Acceptance Presentation AT CU
		A fat woman has the added anxiety of facing waiting room chairs that may not fit her, a gown that does not cover her, an examining table that may not feel stable under her, and a doctor who almost definitely will harass her about her weight and/or the lifestyle the doctor assumes she has.
		Fat acceptance is about accepting people without judgment or prejudice no matter what their size.
		If fat people can start to see other fat bodies as beautiful they can work up to realizing that their own fat body is also beautiful.
	www.io.com /~joeobrin/CUFatAcc.html (1861 words)

	Jimmy Moore's Livin' La Vida Low-Carb™ Blog: Fat Acceptance Is A Ruse To Avoid Weight Loss
		The "fat acceptance" movement has taken root in this country with groups like the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance promoting their viewpoint that fat is beautiful and nobody should be forced into losing weight if they don't want to.
		The unintended consequences of fat acceptance is declining health among all age groups.
		A fat person who is happy being fat doesn't shell out the money to buy those products and since it is a millions of dollars industry obviously there are a lot of fat people who don't want acceptance they want a normal weight.
	livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com /2006/09/fat-acceptance-is-ruse-to-avoid-weight.html (5713 words)

	Fat Acceptance: The Pros and Cons
		Fat discrimination runs rampant throughout our society and it is accepted by people who would scream bigot if someone made similar comments about race or sexual orientation.
		I used to be fat - now I am not - I made changes to accomplish this - I did not sit and whine that I was not accepted as a fat person - instead I got slender, muscular and healthy - now I am much more accepted and successful.
		I tried to join a Fat Acceptance blog two times, received conformation of registration, but was told it was up to their discression for acceptance.
	www.diet-blog.com /archives/2006/01/27/fat_acceptance_the_pros_and_cons.php (3183 words)

	The Fat Person's Home Page
		Being fat is not a character flaw, it is not a sin, and it is not a sign of mental deficiency.
		One of the goals of the size acceptance movement is to stop the word fat from being used as an insult, and to fight the stereotypes which that usage represents.
		The panel went on to say that being fat is multifactorial in origin, reflecting inherited, environmental, cultural, socioeconomic, and psychological conditions.
	www.io.com /~joeobrin/fat.html (1837 words)

	Big Fat Blog: Slate Looks at Fat Acceptance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As fat acceptance moves from it's infancy to it's childhood (yes, that's only as far as we are), we have to fight to frame the issue in a way that affects the most people.
		I have been involved in fat acceptance for 26 years & I am a voracious reader, I dig for the REAL research about health matters, etc., & there ARE no perfect foods, etc. All foods that people want to eat can fit into their diets, barring spoilage of foods or a person's allergies.
		Fat acceptance is for people of all sizes, shapes, ages, genders, races, lifestyles, & all levels of health &/or mobility.
	www.bigfatblog.com /archives/001745.php (10653 words)

	Hugo Schwyzer: Big Fat Blog
		To me, fat acceptance means that I do not make assumptions about a person's character because he or she is fat.
		The reason that fat got identified as a feminist issue is that women are judged for it way more than men, which pretty much disproves the fat-phobic argument that they are interested in health, because it's far healthier to be a fat woman than a fat man.
		Feminism and fat acceptance are obviously natural allies, since it's impossible to imagine a member of one movement ever criticizing the other movement.
	hugoboy.typepad.com /hugo_schwyzer/2005/08/through_ampersa.html (6110 words)

	Thoughts on the Million Pound March
		She related stories of her off-Broadway play "Wake Up, I'm Fat!", tales of production assistants on her ABC show The Practice comparing her to a cathedral, and a story of her demand that her character's love story be given equal treatment to that of Lara Flynn Boyle's.
		Michael Loewy reported on the progress that the fat gay men's movement had made in the recent past, and led the crowd in songs borrowed from the gay rights movement.
		But, after the fans slipped away, there were only the buses full of energized fat people, and the proud images left with the media of people who refused to lie down and take the discrimination of society.
	members.tripod.com /~SC_SAC/thoughts.html (698 words)

	Fat acceptance movement - Definition, explanation
		The fat acceptance movement, more recently referred to as the fat liberation movement, is a grass-roots effort to change societal attitudes about people who are fat.
		In 1969, William Fabrey founded the National Association to Aid Fat Americans, later renamed the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.
		Fat acceptance has ties and common ground with the feminist movement and, arguably, the civil rights movement.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/f/fa/fat_acceptance_movement.php (783 words)

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		Letâs face it, no one chooses to be fat in a society where the sight of average-sized models posing in their underwear on billboards advertising Dove soap causes a disgusted uproar across major media lines.
		Fat people are believed to lack self-control and have lower intelligence quotients in comparison to 'average sized' people.
		These are the fat acceptance zealots -- using fat acceptance and âin your faceâ fat imagery and messages in order to shock the world into accepting their fat as meaning they are valid, worthy and ultimately just as healthy as the next person.
	www.weightedlongenough.com /2005_11_01_archive.html (6106 words)

	NeoGreen
		Fat Acceptance is my most heartfelt issue, primarily because I have seen the devastation firsthand, and have been helpless to stop it.
		I believe that we are meant to have bodies of wondrously varying sizes and shapes, that dieting kills -- both the body and the soul, and that it is entirely possible to be fat and healthy.
		As a diabetic, I utilize low-carb eating and exercise to keep my bloodwork normal, my body happy -- and quite fat.
	www.geocities.com /mommaterra/fat.html (79 words)

	The Hittman Chronicle - Porkys
		I first came in contact with the Fat Acceptance (FA) movement several years ago, when a very large man-hating woman signed up on a multi-line BBS I owned.
		Rather than just trying to change the public's perceptions of fat people, FAA (Fat Acceptance Advocates, who are often the size of airplanes) have, naturally, tried to mandate special treatment, through both legislation and lawsuits.
		I'm fat enough that booths are usually uncomfortable, so when I'm directed to one I just politely request a table.
	www.davehitt.com /july00/porkys.html (800 words)

	Fat Role Models
		Even if you believe me that fat can be beautiful, healthy, and sexy, the fact remains that everywhere you look you'll be bombarded by images of thin women portrayed as the only form of beauty.
		Margaret Cho Margaret is multi-talented: she's a writer, actress, and stand up comedian, and she extends her talents to embrace and fight for the equality of many minorities, including Asians, women, gays, and people of size.
		Marilyn Wann This author is on the fore front of the fat acceptance movement.
	www.angelfire.com /ego/mybabbling/Rolemodels.html (888 words)

	The Seattle Times: NEXT
		The fat acceptance movement has begun, according to The Associated Press.
		Organizations like the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) and the International Size Acceptance Association claim that the nation’s current efforts to curb obesity is a witch hunt, which needlessly singles out fat Americans.
		Fat acceptance groups are angry that Medicare changed its policy last month and now considers obesity a disease.
	blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com /nextopia/archives/004715.html (327 words)

	Fat activists start mass protest - Breaking News
		Unashamed of their size, fed up with fat jokes, and angry at the national obsession with dieting, overweight activists are mounting a feisty protest movement against the medical establishment's campaign against obesity.
		"We're living in the middle of a witch hunt and fat people are the witches," said Marilyn Wann of San Francisco, a militant member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA).
		The convention comes as the movement is scrambling to counter federal government pronouncements that obesity is a "critical public health problem" costing more than $US100 billion ($A142.52 billion) and 300,000 lives per year.
	www.theage.com.au - http: //www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/03/1091476446084.html?oneclick=true (455 words)

	GUSTO: BitchSlap by Elizabeth F. Stewart: The gloves are off.
		However, her libertine principles are challenged when considering the Pro-Ana (Pro-Anorexia) movement, which stands in stark contrast to the Fat Acceptance movement.
		While Fat Acceptance is primarily an adult movement, severe eating disorders affect mostly people in their teens and 20s.
		Like Fat Acceptance, Pro-Ana is an extreme, defensive reaction to the outside pressures of negative attitudes toward the "lifestyle choice" of anorexic and bulimic girls (only about 1 percent are male).
	www.dailygusto.com /columns/bitchslap/index-090203.html (2129 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Fat acceptance movement
		The Fat acceptance movement is a grass-roots from effort to change societal attitudes about people who are overweight.
		The movement, started in 1969, has gained steam since the 1990s, and now includes several activist organizations.
		Big Fat Blog, a fat acceptance weblog (http://www.bigfatblog.com/)
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/fa/Fat_acceptance_movement (78 words)

	Act Boldly » Blog Archive » I have a lap…
		I believe in fat acceptance, and my core belief is certainly not that it is impossible to lose weight.
		In defense of the fat acceptance movement, it is not an evil group of people who hate themselves and hate everyone who is thin.
		I only wanted to defend the people I know in the movement and suggest that it is not about external issues of dieting or not but a deep belief about fairness and worth.
	www.actboldly.com /2006/03/11/i-have-a-lap (1039 words)

	Resources and Links
		Abundance - offers you the opportunity to buy books and videotapes on size acceptance, resolving eating disorders and body image problems, self-help, personal growth, creativity, and healing from abuse and trauma that are reviewed and recommended by a psychologist with expertise in these areas.
		Abundance Magazine - We simply wish to provide a forum for people of size and their admirers to congregate, to socialize, to exchange ideas and beliefs, and to become familiar with what it is like on the other side of the fence.
		Body Positive - Change Your Mind, Change Your Culture, and Let Your Body Be About Fat Acceptance - The fat acceptance movement seeks to dispel myths and promote facts about fatness, and fights unfair discrimination on the basis of size or weight.
	www.size-acceptance.org /links.html (1728 words)

	NYT-style: Cover Story - The BIG Issue
		Under the giant tent of fat activism, NAAFA, albeit the largest in the states, is only one of dozens of fat action groups.
		Yet surveys show that fat people are underemployed and less likely to receive promotions than thin people, regardless of their job performance.
		Russo's participation in the Fat Admirer's SIG is more as a mentor for people coming out about their "size orientation." With the pervasive societal prejudice against fat people, psychologists say, FAs are often erroneously considered abnormal.
	www.dispatch.net /site_examples/nyt/1998-10-01/feat.html (3247 words)

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