tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064041625174382593.post6831515316422351373..comments2023-10-26T05:48:21.879-04:00Comments on MizB...AGING VIEWS FROM THE TOWER: As I See ItUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064041625174382593.post-76858944818235256342007-08-19T06:15:00.000-04:002007-08-19T06:15:00.000-04:00I think we're allies talking at cross-purposes. A...I think we're allies talking at cross-purposes. At nearly 400 lbs., I know something about size prejudice. After 30 years in the p.r./marketing/advertising business, I also know something about creating and promoting images. And after a lifetime of political activism, I know how easy (and dangerous) it is for people to become narrowly focused on their issues and not understand the perspectives of others, or understand how others perceive them. I understand that fat is not a choice. What I'm saying is we have to find better language and better tactics for communicating all of our messages. I have visited many fat blogs (and have submitted my own to BFIndex for inclusion in their list). It's not that I'm uninformed or misinformed; I simply have a different opinion than you. If there's no room for differences of opinion or the sharing of new ideas and strategies in a movement, that's when it really is doomed. I do appreciate what you're saying and thank you for making comments on my posts.MizBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11930112615117446368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1064041625174382593.post-34352244356163173382007-08-18T23:16:00.000-04:002007-08-18T23:16:00.000-04:00The thing is fat isn't a choice. Wether or not it ...The thing is fat isn't a choice. Wether or not it has us loose credibility with non-fat people. <BR/><BR/>They need to learn that there are people in this world besides them, and that those people may not have a choice to look like them. So humilating them, or treating them as second-class does nothing.<BR/><BR/>Diets might work short term, but they do not work as a whole. They don't work, generally. What they are is a form of self-starvation. If someone presented the eating practices that Jenny Craig or Weight Watchers suggest, outside of belonging to those diet industries, they would be considered to have a form of Anorexia.<BR/><BR/>It's immoral to sell the idea of disordered eating to people who are born not to be an unrealistic ideal size. The more people realize this, the more the diet industry fights back. Funding programs that create a false sense of emergency over obesity.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps before you post again, you should take a look here:<BR/><BR/>www.bigfatfacts.com<BR/><BR/>and visit some of the other blogs at:<BR/><BR/>www.bigfatindex.com<BR/><BR/>It seems you are rather naieve as to the extent size prejudice is a problem. It seems you understand such issues. <BR/><BR/>However when it comes to important issues, such as educating people that being a certain body type is not a matter of choice, you fail to see the importance of that. <BR/><BR/>As long as people sincerely belive that people are fat because they are not trying to be thin, we will go nowhere.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com