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Fat Acceptance Is A
Steaming Pile Of
Garbage


By 2Wycked


Contrary to popular belief, the fat acceptance movement has been around in the
United States for some time, first being birthed in the 1960s, when many, many
discrete groups began to organize around identity politics. The movement is a
strong mix of narcissism and female-centrism.
A Brief History Of The Movement

Consider a brief history of the movement. Like I have previously said, the first documented fat acceptance
acceptance event happened in New York City in 1967. The participants dubbed it a fat-in at a restaurant and
consumed many, many pints of ice cream. Later that same summer, the first nation-wide movement, which
eventually become the National Association For The Advancement Of Fat People (NAAFA). This time period is
generally referred to first-wave fat acceptance.
For a brief period of time, moving lockstep with other identity political groups, a militant arm of the movement
coalesced into the Fat Underground, a radical feminist-allied movement whose rallying cry was, a diet is a
cure that doesnt work, for a disease that doesnt exist. The movement never gained much steam as they called
for violence against perceived fatphobia.
Accordingly, as Americans waistlines expanded, the movement gained ground. This time period has been
called second-wave fat acceptance, as Americans needed explanations for their decreasing physical
attractiveness & increasingly poor health. Mainstream outlets began to run some sympathetic literature, mostly
just viciously attacking the medical establishment & perceived fatphobia of the media at large.
Fat acceptance is currently thought to be the in third wave, which coincides with the birth of the Internet &
blogging. Tumblr, online feminist webzines & WordPress have been credited with advancing the cause.
A Review Of Their Claims

The most accurate summary of fat acceptance dogma here.
Lets review some of their more insistent claims. First, and foremost, is the concept that dieting & exercise dont
work. Given the multiplicity of posts on Return Of Kings about health and fitness, I will not talk about the
veracity of the claim, just about the psychology presented. The claim that exercise & diet dont work is just so
absurdly wrong it begs for a reason why they cling to it. Part of this is the inability to accept responsibility for
their weight gain remember early fat acceptance warriors worked with radical feminists. These sorts of groups
portended the nascent narcissism that would come to pervade identity politics in general, but markedly show
off the sheer and utter inability of its adherents from truly changing their reality.
Consider that there are also people who are underweight. Fat acceptance types
fold anorexia and related issues into their dogmatic and self-serving approach to
weight issues, but they think that the underweight suffer from psychological
issues. It is a delicate road to hoe, because they cant just say that vastly
underweight people are completely healthy, like they would claim a person 300
pounds overweight to be. Of course, its those poor, poor underweight folk that
have psychological issues. Of course it is related to impossible beauty standards
forced onto women by the heterosexist patriarchy. Notice, though, that fat
acceptance claims the over- and under- weight suffer from psychological stigma
by the media, yet only the underweight have to adjust their weight. You know, to
become healthy again.
They are not seeking to decouple weight and health issues but to destroy the
concept of being overweight. They want people to either considered healthy or
underweight. It shows off neatly the psychology: it is all about them.
Take this study that is often bandied about in fat circles about the failure of
dieting. A top comment on the article gets it right:
Why arent we looking at those who successfully lose the weight and keep it off for 2 or more years?
Of course, we should be looking for the success stories and understanding why
they succeeded in the wake of others failing. What the commenter doesnt
understand is narcissism.
Take game-denialists. They desperately need stories of failure of so-called game
adherents to fuel their psychology. They dont want to hear stories of men pulling
themselves up-by-their-bootstraps, they want to hear about some guy tripping
over himself tying his boots while he relied on a technique given to him by a
fraud. Who would you believe? A man who claims X, Y or Z is a fraud or a man
that has achieved success and relates this personal stories, approaches and what
his failures taught him?
That is the simple psychology of fat acceptance-activists and their denial of the
science of dieting. Remember, if you are reading it, it is for you. Unable to bear
hearing about successful dieting approaches, personal stories about weight loss
or just seeing the photos of the so-called weight privileged, they demand media
conform to their perceptions of their value. So people cant keep the weight off
for long periods of time? Sounds like a personal problem to me, not the diets
problem. On the rare off chance it is a biological disorder, you will find that out
from your doctor.
Babies are born being able to select physically attractive faces from those that are
not. This damning evidence for the fat-acceptance movement, as fat faces are
rarely considered attractive because fat is unattractive and, most importantly,
alters attractive features. A healthy man with a strong jaw becomes an unhealthy
man with a weak chin when he is fat.

Another serious issue is the insistence that fat people, as a discrete class, need to
be consulted on public health policy that affects fat people. This is a curious
claim, as it tries to democratize what is, essentially, a dogmatic movement based
on narcissism. Any fat person who deviates from the dogma is not included in the
movement. You think the spokesman for Subway Jared is a fat acceptance
hero?
Most importantly, here, is the notion that being a member of a class somehow confers a level of perception that
non-members cannot access. This is classic narcissistic armor and it is wholly untrue. This approach is most
used to defend feminist claims of male privilege, it is also used to defend claims of racism and homophobia.
Being a member of a discrete class does little beyond signify you belong to said class. Like anything else in life,
what you do with that is determined by you. You may have great insights to provide, you may not. In your
thoughts and ideas people will judge you for you have to offer.
Which feeds into the next point, is the fear of being judged that fat acceptance-activists wish to counter. Instead
of encouraging positive traits in fat people (that arent related to you looking in the mirror and declaring
yourself awesome), the main thrust is to change wider society so that they never have to confront their own
issues. This never works for anybody. At the end of the day, you always have to close your eyes with no
psychology to consider but your own.
Finally, a point is made that all humans deserve bodily autonomy. They consider decisions on being fat as
relating to personal autonomy. That is a terrible approach, as it brings in the age-old liberal adage, your
autonomy ends where my feelings begin. If you get fat, you will get medical issues and not just affect the
appropriation of my tax dollars, but you will affect my life personally as you could have been a woman I
married, but you are either too fat to be interesting or dead. You could have been my doctor, but you decided to
major in Fat Studies and now are a professional fat-ass. You could say that is selfish of me, but how the hell can
you convince somebody with low self-esteem to change because they clearly hate themselves? You arent fat and
fierce, you are a pathetically privileged plus-sized person.
The serious issue with your autonomy ends where my feelings begin approach is that there is rarely an action
one can take that does not affect somebody else. I am not sure there are any actions of consequence that be
undertaken that will not affect at least one person. Exercising autonomy often implicates limiting others
options to pretend otherwise is ludicrous.
Here, take the test from fat acceptance fativists to see how much you have learned!
Conclusion

Fat acceptance has a long history in the United States, but only recently exploded
as left-wing friendly platforms such as Tumblr and Reddit began to become
popular.
The claims made reek of a supreme level of privilege, as only people in a late-
capitalist society could possibly be able to complain about their poor choices in
diet and exercise need to be validated by authority figures in the media. Not only
that, but they are not seeking simply acceptance, but worship. While some some
of the talk revolves around body equity with skinny people, the true end-goal is
with referring to fat as beautiful. They are not seeking to be seen as average, but
as gorgeous and models. Sure, they lash out defensively talking about their
intense self-hatred and poor body image, but that is attention-seeking behavior to
get others to worship their looks and reaffirm their personal delusions about
attractiveness and sexual value.
While movements like this are part and parcel of any narcissistic society notice
it started in the 60s with other identity-based movements the truth it is
woefully misinformed about basic science and biology. It exists as a stopgap
between the fat activists own self-hatred and their complete inability to change.
They need defenses to exist in order to deny any true change of the self.
I have no doubt that people exist that are completely happy with being
overweight. Those people would never identify with the fat acceptance
movement.