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The Wii Fit and Healthy Skeptism

Team Queer post by La Macha, December 23, 2008 - 9:05pm; tagged exercise, fat acceptance, gaming, health, wii fit.

One of the biggest gifts this year in the arena of 'sports/exercise' is the Wii Fit. It is billed as a game and an exercise space, only better, and it's virtually impossible to find. You can do everything from yoga to table balancing and apparently so many people are into it, a new affliction has been named for it (the Wii Knee:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/3854172/Doctors-fear-a-Wii-knee-epidemic.html).

Here is a clip of Wii Fit in its idealized form:

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Speaking of Fat Girls

Team Queer post by La Macha, December 18, 2008 - 8:15pm; tagged body acceptance, fat acceptance, Oprah.

Kate Harding over at Shapely Prose (http://kateharding.net/2008/12/09/dear-oprah/) has a fabulous response to Oprah and her latest efforts at losing weight (http://www.omagazine.info/).

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Ad interventions

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen, August 18, 2008 - 7:44pm; tagged body positivity, eating disorders, fat acceptance, fat activism, glossy magazines, offensive advertising, women's magazines.

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“Basically, I just want people to see what it would be like if plus-size models were represented similarly to slim models." -- Kristin Lou Herout.

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Big Trouble

Are eating disorders the Lavender Menace of the fat acceptance movement?

Article by Lily Rygh Glen, Illustrated by Mia Nolting, appeared in issue Lost & Found; published in 2008; filed under Social commentary; tagged body image, eating disorders, fat acceptance, fat phobia.

BeckyAll names have been changed. has been active in the fat acceptance movement for a good half-dozen years. She attends and organizes awareness-raising events, takes part in her local fat social scene, and fights to end discrimination against fat people with a powerful combination of weary sadness and righteous anger. She wears her weight like well-adorned armor, betraying no sense of regret or shame in her 480-pound body.

Becky also has an eating disorder.

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