S.A.M.
05-06-08, 04:01 PM
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA (http://www.naafaonline.com/NAAFA_2008_LA_Convention_/Welcome.html)) believes that the drive to get fat people to shed kilograms, so pervasive in Jesustan, is the outcome of a weight-loss industry conspiracy. In NAAFA’s view, although “95-98% of diets fail over three years, our thin-obsessed society continues to believe that fat people are at fault for their size”.
In Jesustan, the natives have odd attitudes to fat. You cannot make derogatory remarks about women and the lower race, even Bengalis. You may not praise bride-burning or pederasty. So suffused are the Jesustanis in political correctness that if a leper sat next to them on a train, I suspect they would choke down their nausea and, from sheer shame, stay put.
But there are two sets of people it is safe to mock: the poor and the fat, who in Jesustan, unlike at home, are much of a safeness. Being fat is almost a crime—a crime against a society that valorises the Protestant ethic around which Jesustan is built. If some people in the Mississippi House has its way, the fat will soon be exactly like lepers, shunned by society. In February, Representative W.T. Mayhall, Jr., introduced House Bill 282, which seeks to prohibit restaurants from serving people who are determined to be obese by standards set forth by the Department of Health. Others have demanded that the fat be barred from squeezing themselves into economy-class airline seats; still others that the obese be denied public health services.
Source (http://jesustandiaries.blogspot.com/2008/04/begums-built-for-comfort-but-not-for.html)
From the website (http://www.naafaonline.com/NAAFA_2008_LA_Convention_/Welcome.html):
The Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) is an international professional organization composed of individual and organizational members who are committed to the principles of Health At Every Size (HAES).
The mission of the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) is to promote education, research, and the provision of services which enhance health and well-being, and which are free from weight-based assumptions and weight discrimination.
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In Jesustan, the natives have odd attitudes to fat. You cannot make derogatory remarks about women and the lower race, even Bengalis. You may not praise bride-burning or pederasty. So suffused are the Jesustanis in political correctness that if a leper sat next to them on a train, I suspect they would choke down their nausea and, from sheer shame, stay put.
But there are two sets of people it is safe to mock: the poor and the fat, who in Jesustan, unlike at home, are much of a safeness. Being fat is almost a crime—a crime against a society that valorises the Protestant ethic around which Jesustan is built. If some people in the Mississippi House has its way, the fat will soon be exactly like lepers, shunned by society. In February, Representative W.T. Mayhall, Jr., introduced House Bill 282, which seeks to prohibit restaurants from serving people who are determined to be obese by standards set forth by the Department of Health. Others have demanded that the fat be barred from squeezing themselves into economy-class airline seats; still others that the obese be denied public health services.
Source (http://jesustandiaries.blogspot.com/2008/04/begums-built-for-comfort-but-not-for.html)
From the website (http://www.naafaonline.com/NAAFA_2008_LA_Convention_/Welcome.html):
The Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) is an international professional organization composed of individual and organizational members who are committed to the principles of Health At Every Size (HAES).
The mission of the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) is to promote education, research, and the provision of services which enhance health and well-being, and which are free from weight-based assumptions and weight discrimination.
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