fattypatties speaks for me

[firecat]

Others posted it while she was in the middle of writing it. Now it's finished, and it's fucking brilliant. Start at the bottom of the page and read up.

Top 10 Things I am Tired of Discussing in the fat-acceptance community

I'll have more to say about this later; I'm still taking it all in.

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"the politics of food affects people of all sizes"

There are a myriad of issues about food that are more important than what foods are "good" and what foods are "bad": Who picks food, how animals used for food get treated, how much food is wasted in this country, who gets a good selection of food at their local market and who doesn't, who moves food from one place to another, how soils are depleted by poor farming, the waste of water in farming practices, starvation, famine, exploitation and inequities.

I said this another forum, but we are the wealthiest country in the world when it comes to food and we spend all our time discussing our diet. It is as if Marie Antoinette was saying "let them debate cake."

Diet foods are part of the problem. They add to packaging and landfills, they create demand in the market place that is not natural and they distract the public from all these issues.

People who don't diet are subversive in this economy and they should be seen as allies to those who fight for fair trade and better systems of distribution. They do NOT deserve to be the poster child for "over-consumption." If people stopped trying to control their weight, over=consumption would be reduced.

--Pattie (http://fattypatties.blogspot.com (http://fattypatties.blogspot.com))

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Agreed from start to finish. (In case that wasn't obvious.)

Well of course we're spending all this time discussing our diet. It's because we can.

My personal opinion is that one of the reasons this country is so harsh on fat people is guilt. To many people, on some level fat people symbolize prosperity and the *ability* to eat freely when others can't. Not only that, to a subset of that group fat people symbolize the political mistakes of America. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2006/02/22/notes022206.DTL)"