Marilyn Wann: Fat politics is about acceptance, not blame 10:46 AM CST on Sunday, November 6, 2005 Although Laura Kipnis obviously spent some time skimming Google results for fat politics, I'm don't know whether she genuinely wants to understand (and fails) or whether her misrepresentation of fat activists like me is just a foil for her attack on Big Food. Either way, she's missing the part of fat rights activism – and the exciting, scientific paradigm that accompanies it – that may be precisely the answer she thinks Americans need. Ms. Kipnis wants to blame someone for the existence of fat people. Fat politics seeks to end the prejudice that inspires such blaming. People in the fat pride community have survived repeated diets, self-hatred and a world that despises our difference. We needed a better way to relate to eating, exercise and our own bodies. Luckily, we found health researchers, fitness trainers, therapists and nutritionists who were also fed up with traditional weight-loss treatments that do harm and don't help. Together, fat activists and proponents of a new paradigm, called Health At Every Size (HAES), formulated an approach that is good for fat people – and for thin people. -snip-

Is there a forum where I can meet other people interested in this topic? I'd love to talk with them. Thanks!!!

There is the Gab Cafe where a bunch of us hang out, it is located on the Fat!So? site. Fat!So? is the site Marylin Wann has (by the way, I highly recommend her book by the same name) and there are a lot of folk who hang out there. You can click on the site link under Size/Fat Acceptance Links and click thru to the Cafe. You do need to register, but it is easy to do so and the approval process is pretty fast.

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