We think big is hot. (We're like Mrs. Claus that way.) Which is why we like this documentary to help make fat acceptance a reality.Size activist Kira Nerusskaya, who has testified in front of the Massachusetts state Senate on the issues of weight discrimination in the workplace, is making a film of stories of real women and their curves from around the world.
"Fat Girls Float" is a "film about fat women in a thin-centric world." In this powerful clip released to help raise money for the project, Velvet, a Parisian, pleads for a change in the idea that fat women are "something to be laughed at, as gluttons, as lazy people, as all we do is stuff our face."
Adds Nerusskaya, "We are so brainwashed within this culture of having the stigma of fat being so negative and bad." The independent filmmaker, who's not ashamed of her 300 lbs., is offering a look not just at the lives of BBWs but the men who love them, the stigmas and the fat-acceptance community.
If you want, you can help a sister out with some funding. She's staying afloat thanks to the donations that will get her movie made. Check out the trailer here.
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Wednesday 16 December
By davvik
The sad thing is, most of these women speaking seem stupid. Maybe she should have educated fat women speaking as well.
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Wednesday 16 December
By eggy weggs
You guys are pro-fat people but anti-prostitute -- or anti giving prostitutes jobs?
(I'm basing that statement on this: http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/12/16/chicago-advice-columnist-tells-aging-virgin-to-hire-a-prostitute/, where the poster said, "He's paying a woman in a 'career' accepted by the psychological and medical community as highly toxic to women. ")
Isn't morbid obesity also pretty toxic to women? Especially with heart disease rates soaring? I'm not anti-fat, but I am pro-prostitute, and I certainly am pro-treating sex workers with respect. I'm just wondering how ya'll choose your platforms.
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Wednesday 16 December
By Izzy
As an overweight girl myself, it really presses my buttons when people say that obesity isn't a bad thing. Obese is not a natural and healthy state in humans. If some of these women put half the effort they put into complaining about how unfair life is into exercising and eating healthy, they would be well on their way to a healthy weight. I've lost 56 pounds and still have a ways to go, but I'm not going to give up and say "people should except obesity" instead, though, trust me, that would be far easier. You don't have to be stick thin to be happy or healthy, but being massively overweight is just downright dangerous. It's something you should work to change, not make acceptable.
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Thursday 17 December
By D.
Sorry, Izzy...I happen to be one of those people.
Sandy Szwarc is also one of those people:
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2006/11/obesity-paradox-1.html
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2006/12/obesity-paradox-2-how-can-it-be.html
When I was working out a lot more and eating a lot better, I sure felt great, but my weight did not budge. It really ISN'T that easy to lose or gain weight (just ask anybody you know who is super skinny and is unhappy about it).
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Friday 18 December
By agatha
It isnt easy but it works
Friday 18 December
By kathy
If a genie could zap this women and make them be fit and in shape., I'm pretty sure they wouldnt want to go back to being fat!!!
Instead of fat acceptance, how about getting in shape. And please dont say you have tried and nothing works!!! been there, done that!!! Until I finally started working out(sweating like a dog) and stopped shoving all this crap down my pie hole, I was a fat blob!!! You think I ever wanna be fat again? of course not!!! So stop with the acceptance crap, get your big butt off of the couch and lose the weight!!!
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Friday 18 December
By agatha
Well said Kathy.
Friday 18 December
By D.
Kathy: Why do you assume that fat people aren't fit? It's ridiculous to assume that just because they're heavier that they never eat well or exercise.
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Friday 18 December
By agatha
I think dis is great
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Saturday 19 December
By Kate N
Yes, being fat sucks in many ways. Dieting is very hard. I know because I have been significantly overweight since I was 7 years old. But I also know that it's no one's fault but my own. it is not something to be proud of, and to let women who are trying to improve themselves and lose weight just agree that it is acceptable is doing far more harm than good. It's like a smoker with a hole in their throat telling people cigarettes are perfectly ok.
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Friday 19 February
By summer savvy
Kate N: the difference is that smoking kills.
There isn't a single scientific study that ever proved obesity kills, or even causes a decline in health. There are proved associations of obesity and diabetes, heart disease and such, but no research ever found fat to be a CAUSE of health decline.
Low self-esteem, motivated by a culture that stigmatizes fat people as lazy and lackadaisical, does a lot more harm to somebody's ability to love life and lead a healthy and active lifestyle than any 'extra' pounds.
Tuesday 22 December
By force factor
I was looking for a something like this. then I got around this force factor and ordered Force Factor. It worked well for me!
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