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Austrialia vs US: Neck and Neck for fat hatred

Australia has told a woman she is too fat to adopt.   Things like this make me so angry.   There are so many loving people in the world denied a child for being single or gay or too old.   Now they want to add fat to the mixture.  For shame.

But there are those confronting fat prejudice, Watch Kelly Bliss and Joy Nash take on Mimi Roth (warning Mimi is venomous) and an online magazine Just as Beautiful is looking to put together a plus size band.

Finally retailers are getting a clue: Retailers gear more toward sizes 12 and up.  But what retailers also need to do is actually cater to us and not give us some token sizes.  We need a wide variety of styles in sizes bigger than 24.

And with all this focus on obesity in children, it is not surprising about a sharp raise in anorexia is Australia (the US and Australia are neck and neck in fat hatred, so I’m fairly sure US rates are up too).

Not surprising since this is from the “AMA Appendix: Expert Committee Recommendations on the Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Overweight and Obesity
June 6, 2007”   which is becoming damn close as the AMA becoming the food police.  How about this simple recipe for children, love them as is, make sure they eat their vegetables and go out to play.

Thankfully people are fighting back.  Here is a lovely piece of “guerilla” activism.  http://community.livejournal.com/fatshionista/1690160.html  and The dressing room project http://www.venusdivamag.com/Pages/plus-size-magazine-detail.asp?article-id=412591150

Marilyn Wann came up with a great guerilla tactic, make bookmarks with size positive slogans and put them in diet books at bookstores and libraries.

You ain't Fat, you ain't nothing!

Last Saturday, I saw Weird Al in concert.   I've been a fan since "Eat It".   As many might know Al has a song called "I'm Fat" (From Michael Jackson's I'm Bad).  At the show Al did "I'm Fat" and came out in a fat suit.  If you've read previous post you know what I think of fat suits.  But I happened to find the song funny.

I especially like the lines
"And the whole world knows I'm fat and I'm proud
Just tell me once again who's fat"

I often thought that Al was a fat man trapped in a thin man's body and he tends to make fun of everyone including himself.

So is it okay to make fun of fat people who you are making fun of everyone?  I also like Family Guy, South Park and The Simpsons all featuring stereotypical fat characters but also make fun of everything. And the best part are these characters are FAT, not obese, pudgy, portly; they are FAT.

I tend to think of fat jokes as offensive when they aren't funny.

Not funny fat jokes: Eddie Murphy's Nutty Prof II, Norbit, Allyson Hannigan in Date Movie etc.

Maybe I just can't deal with the use of fat suits when there are perfectly good fat comedic actors out there.  I can forgive Al because "I'm Fat" is a song and each of his song is a different persona.

APA go Fu*k Yourself.

Well the American Psychiatric Association Association wants Obesity listed in the DSM V as a Brain disorder.  I know exactly who has a brain disorder and it ain't fat people.  I'm not a disease, I don't overeat (and even if I did why don't thin people who overeat get singled out?), I'm not lazy,  it's not all about  my mother or all in my head.  I'm fat because I am fat.

But the cheer you up...

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