Comments on: Fat Acceptance Sucks

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:06:19 +0000

Mylea, your attitude is FAR uglier than any fat chick I’ve ever seen.

By: mylea

mylea — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:16:52 +0000

[Blah blah I am a troll]

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:08:45 +0000

“Then you are implying that only a specific size can be healthy, which is false.”

That’s definitely not what I was trying to imply. Of course being healthy comes in all sizes.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:04:02 +0000

@Talbot. My first thought when you said that someone needs to be saying really loudly that overweight does not equal unhealthy was those albino shouting gorillas from Futuruma that shout “LOVE MOM!”

Anyway, BWA HA HA HA AH HA this article is ridiculous. I agree that lip service to it is worse than not mentioning it at all.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:47:34 +0000

“no matter their size or how happy they are with it, being healthy is the most important thing.”

Then you are implying that only a specific size can be healthy, which is false.

By: talbot

talbot — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:40:37 +0000

Somebody, somewhere, sometime has to say really loud, over and over again, that being overweight does not mean being unhealthy. A “health risk” is not the same as having a disease. Really thin women are at risk for osteoporosis. So let’s target them for that? People who sleep around are at risk for a zillion different problems–so let’s target them? The single largest prescription group in the US is antidepressants. And depression is associated with a host of other problems. So let’s target the depressed?

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:14:27 +0000

I think she supports body acceptance, but also recognizes that no matter their size or how happy they are with it, being healthy is the most important thing.

By: Seegz

Seegz — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:39:20 +0000

I agree.

SIZE acceptance, however, rocks socks. Never liked how the label implies that we’re only about fat people. Just because I’m fat doesn’t mean I don’t notice how frustrating the “anorexic” jokes are for thin people.

Anyway, BIG SURPRISE! The news completely misidentifies what fat/size acceptance is. Nothing new.

By: Geri

Geri — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:47:49 +0000

I’m new to discovering FA, and its difficult to overcome a lifetime of messages that being thin in infinitely better than being fat. I’m getting there, but it’s difficult. I imagine that FA or Body Acceptance must be even more difficult if one’s professional training is reinforcing these messages that fat is unhealthy, that losing weight is a normal goal for a fat person. So I am glad to see a shred of body acceptance in the medical profession, glad to see that some practitioners focus on health than on numbers on a scale. For me, it is good enough for now. It represents some progress, even if it is just a little.

By: Simone

Simone — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:47:36 +0000

Ah, women’s clothing sizes–they make no sense at all!

Maybe the “size 14 or a size 21″ comment was meant to include shape diversity, as well as size! Even sizes are cut for more hourglass figures, and odd sizes for more straight-up-and-down ones.