Size Acceptance Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Sasha Wood
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Size Acceptance
This document contains information about size acceptance and other
issues relevant to large folks. If you don't find what you're looking
for here, try one of the related FAQs (see question B1 for a complete
list).
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Changes from Last Version
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* Added more info about Fat Lip Reader's Theatre.
* Added Miss Piggy to famous fat people list.
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Contents
SECTION A: FAQ about size acceptance and being large
A1) What is size acceptance anyway?
A2) What are some fat positive artists, musicians, sculptors,
etc.?
A3) Who are some famous fat people?
A4) What is International No-Diet Day?
A5) What are some responses to the standard offensive things said
to fat people? Do you know any _positive_ fat jokes? What
are some slogans for size-acceptance?
A6) What research is there on fat people other than on health?
SECTION B: Information about this FAQ
B1) Are there other related FAQs?
B2) Posting information
B3) Availability of the FAQ
B4) Contributors
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SECTION A: FAQ about size acceptance
A1) What is size acceptance anyway?
Size acceptance is the notion that people are OK (and should be
treated with respect and feel good about themselves and enjoy life) at
whatever size they are: thin, fat, or in-between. Size acceptance
usually includes the notion that consciously manipulating one's weight
(either gaining or losing) is not desirable and may even be harmful.
It includes the idea that dieting for weight loss usually leads, in
the long term, to higher rather than lower weights.
The political side of size acceptance includes calling for public
accommodations and public products to be accessible to all people,
regardless of size. (This means, among other things, movie theatres
should have seats that are wide enough for large folks, and clothing
stores should carry attractive clothing in large sizes.) The
political side also tries to address the discrimination that fat
people often face because they are fat. It tries to propogate a wider
range of beauty than is usually shown in the media. It tries to
publicize the existing studies that indicate harmful effects of
dieting and tries to educate people (i.e. doctors) about interacting
respectfully and well with large folks.
On the personal side, size acceptance involves feeling good about
one's body and treating it well (good food, fun activities, nice
clothing). It also involves feeling that one is entitled to be
treated well (i.e., not accepting, or at least not internalizing,
size-hating remarks). Not everyone who believes in size acceptance is
totally accepting of their own size. This is a problem of a
fat-hating culture, and one we are working to minimize.
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A2) What are some fat positive artists, musicians, sculptors,
etc.?
4 Big Girls
Deb Parks-Satterfield
343 1/2 17th. Ave.
Seattle WA 98122
another address:
PO Box 2134
Seattle, WA 98111
African-American lesbian comedy troupe.
Fernando Botero
Contemporary South American artist whose works feathre very
round and pear-shaped men and women. Works in a variety of
media: drawings, paintings, and monumental sculpture.
The Famine Within
Documentary about weight as a cultural and class issue. Not
entirely "pro-fat", but good nonetheless. It was made in 1990
by a Canadian filmmaker, and appears occasionally, at least in
the U.S., on PBS.
Fat Chance
A film made by the Canadian National Film Board. A true story
about Rick Zakowich, a 400 lb man who does music therapy
for abused children, in addition to playing in a band and
being an abstract painter. At the start, he is told he must
lose 200 lbs for health reasons; he is also depressed, feeling
isolated and alone. He ends up going to a conference on fat
acceptance, and later begins a support group for overweight
men. He comes to accept his body and discovers a fat-positive
community in which he gets the support he needs to live his
life as he is. The movie includes stills (of Rick and others)
by a photographer he met at the conference who takes wonderful
pictures of overweight people. Highly recommended.
The movie is available from Bullfrog Films:
P.O. Box 149
Oley, PA 19547
1-800-534 -3764
(610) 779-8226
Fax: (610) 370-1978
I'm not sure about the price, but I think a film copy is
$275, and a videotape is $29.95. But don't hold me to it.
Fat Chance in a Thin World
NOVA episode, made by PBS. Features obesity researchers.
Fat Chance Theatre
Mimi Orner
418 Marston Ave
Madison, WI 53703
Fat performance theatre.
Fat Lip Reader's Theatre
P.O. Box 29963
Oakland, CA 94604
Contact: caro...@netcom.com
1-510-658-3300
Legendary fat feminist performance theatre. Travels around
the country performing at feminist and lesbian gatherings to
raise awareness of size discrimination and size esteem issues.
Video of selected performance pieces available, titled
_Nothing To Lose_. Cost is $22 + $3 shipping and handling.
Here's their mission statement, from a recruiting flier:
Our mission is to end fat oppression and promote size
acceptance through education and theatrical performance. We
are a collective of fat women who present exciting , dynamic
theatrical performances about what it's really like to be a
fat woman in today's society. We also offer educational
workshops and in-service trainings for organization and
community groups.
The Fatimas
Ronda Wood
Mor-2-Luv
9302 Valley View Ave
Whittier, CA 90602
Work Phone: 310-693-1844
Fat belly dance troupe.
Dawn French
British actress, best know for her double act with Jennifer
Saunders (French and Saunders). Owner of the women's store
1647 in London.
R.C. Gorman
Painter who specializes in scenes of the American southwest
and whose works often include large women.
This Heavy Heart
Cynthia McQuillin and Jane Robinson
Unlikely Publications
P.O. Box 8542
Berkeley, CA 94707
Work Phone: 510-843-6559
Home Phone: 510-843-6559
Email: c.mcq...@genie.geis.com
Fat feminist singers/songwriters. Has CD and tape titled
_This Heavy Heart_ about dieting/body image/size issues.
Cynthia and Jane appear in Women En Large.
Fran Peavey
Atomic Comic -- uses comedy to effect social change.
Daniel Pinkwater
Writes children's books, and grown-up books. Commentator for
National Public Radio. A fat man who makes no apologies for
his size.
The Roly Polys
A British dance group composed of older, larger ladies,
founded in 1980. Four of the five are average height and
about UK size 18-20. The fifth, Big Mo (Mo Moreland) is 4'11"
and UK size 28-30. She's the "darling dumpling" of the Roly
Polys. She's also very fat-positive.
Peter Rubens
Famous Belgian artist of the Renaissance period. Source of
the term "Rubenesque".
Saffir
Diana Mackin
Seattle Now Body Image Task Force
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Rm #222
Seattle, WA 98103
Work Phone: 206-784-1004
Home Phone: 206-632-8547
Saffir performs size-positive street theatre for public
education.
Sistah Monica
Fat blues singer from the Northern California area. Sings
fat-positive songs.
Judy Small
Singer. Wrote "A Song for the Roly Poly People".
Sapphire: The Uppity Blues Women
One black and two white women in the 30's and 40's, all of
whom apparently abandoned careers to hit the road and sing the
blues. Fabulous, fat-positive entertainers.
Throwing Our Weight Around
BAFL
PO Box 308
Kendall Square
Cambridge, MA 02142
Video about fat liberation.
Wry Crips
Pandoura Carpenter
P.O. Box 21474
Oakland, CA 94620
Work Phone: 510-601-5819
Size-positive and disability awareness performance group.
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A3) Who are some famous fat people?
Here are some famous fat folks whose names have come up on a.s.b-f or
s.s.f-a. I make no claims that any of the information here is
correct. The folks on this list are varying degrees of fat (from just
slightly above average, to super-size). Since I don't know who all of
these people are, some of them may not even be fat. Please send
corrections, additions, etc.
Dan Akroyd movie actor, Ghostbusters, Blues Brothers
Saturday Night Live
Louie Anderson comedian, author, The Sports Authority
spokesperson
Maya Angelou U.S. poet laureate
Annabelle U.S. cartoon character, appears on Eeek
Thomas Aquinas Christian theologian
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle silent film star
Louis Armstrong jazz musician from New Orleans
Tom Arnold U.S. TV actor, Roseanne
Pearl Bailey singer, stage actor
Barney the Dinosaur children's TV character
Ethel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore stage and early movie actor
Kathy Bates actor, Misery, Fried Green Tomatoes
Ned Beatty actor, Deliverance, Homocide
Jim Belushi actor/comedian, SNL, film
John Belushi actor, SNL, Animal House, Blues Brothers
Sarah Bernhardt actor
Joe Besser comic in 1930s films, also on Abbot & Costello
Brian Blessed actor on stage, television and vilm
Francis Bouvier actor, Andy Griffiths Show
Marlon Brando movie actor, The Godfather, Apocalypse now
Jay Brazeau Canadian actor
Victor Buono movie actor, The Strangler, What Ever Happened
to Baby Jane?, published poems about being fat
Barbara Bush former U.S. first lady
Delta Burke U.S. TV actor, Designing Women, Women of the
House
Raymond Burr U.S. TV actor, Perry Mason, Ironside,
movie actor, gangster movies
Lord Byron poet, manic-depressive
Cabbage Patch Dolls children's toy
Sebastien Cabot TV actor, Family Affair (Mr. French)
Sarah Caldwell conductor Boston orchestra
John Candy movie actor, Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Mary Chapin Carpenter country western singer
Nell Carter singer, U.S. TV actor, Gimme a Break
Ain't Misbehavin' on Broadway
Darlene Cates movie actor, What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Harry Chapin 70's folk singer, Cat's in the Cradle, Taxi
Chubby Checker early rock-n-roller, pioneer of the Twist
Winston Churchill U.K. Prime Minister during WWII
J.J. Clarke Canadian CJOH weathercaster
Grover Cleveland U.S. president
Patsy Cline country and Western singer
Bill Clinton U.S. president
Rosemary Clooney big band singer, actor
James Coco U.S. actor
Mindy Cohn actor, Facts of Life, The Second Half
Robbie Coltrane British TV actor
Darlene Conley U.S. soap actor
William Conrad U.S. TV/radio actor, Gunsmoke, Jake and the
Fat Man
Jackie Coogan child actor, Uncle Fester on The Addams Family
Lou Costello Abbott and Costello
John Crosbie Canadian politician.
David Crosby rock singer, Crosby, Stills, & Nash (& Young)
Henry D Rap singer.
Dom DeLuise U.S. comedian and character actor, It's a Mad,
Mad World
Peter DeLuise U.S. TV actor, 21 Jump Street
Brian Dennehy actor in Cocoon, Best Seller, Perfect Witness,
Presumed Innocent
"Curly Joe" DeRita
Andy Devine actor
Danny DeVito U.S. TV and movie actor and director
Colleen Dewhurst actor
Divine actor, female impersonator, Orlando,
Hairspray, Pink Flamingos
Fats Dominoe blues/rock musician
Marie Dressler stage, film actor, Min and Bill
Mike Duffy Canadian CBC political commentator
Harvey B. Dunne actor, Ed Wood films
Christopher Durang playwright, cabaret singer
Charles Dutton actor
Cass Elliot singer, Mama Cass of The Mamas and the Papas
Conchata Farrell U.S. TV actor, LA Law, Hearts Afire
Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York
Gianfranco Ferre
Cecil Fielder U.S. baseball player
Totie Fields comedian
W.C. Fields movie actor/ comedian, "My Little Chickadee"
Harvey Fierstein actor, playwright, Torch Song Trilogy
Ella Fitzgerald jazz/scat singer
Aretha Franklin singer
Dennis Franz TV actor, NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues
Dawn French British comedian, author of Big Knits, Great
Big Knits
Frosty the Snowman song, cartoon character
Artemisia Gentileschi Renaissance painter of the Caravaggist school,
painted sturdy, realistic women
Dizze Gillespie horn player
Newt Gingrich U.S. politician, Speaker of the House
Jackie Gleason actor, comedian, composer, The Honeymooners
John Goodman U.S. TV and movie actor, Roseanne, Barton
Fink
Sidney Greenstreet character actor from the 30s and 40s
Alec Guiness British stage and film actor
Buddy Hackett U.S. comedian and actor
Alan Hale Sr. supporting player in many old movies, notably
Errol Flynn version of Robin Hood, played
Little John
Alan Hale Jr. the skipper in Gilligan's Island, also
appeared in the West Point Story, To the
Shores of Tripoli
Oliver Hardy Laurel and Hardy
Heavy D rap singer
Henry VIII founded Church of England
Bob Hope comedian, movie actor, The Road Movies
Bob Hoskins British TV and movie actor, Roger Rabbit
Curly Howard one of The Three Stooges
Jabba the Hut baddie in Return of the Jedi
Burl Ives actor
Mahalia Jackson singer
James Earl Jones actor, Star Wars, Lion King, Yellow Pages
commercials
Mother Jones feminist, labor organizer
Star Jones actor, Jones and Jury
Wynona Judd country wester singer, The Judds
George Kennedy
Brian Keith TV actor, Uncle Bill on Family Affair
Ted Kennedy U.S. Senator, D-Massachusetts
B.B. King singer
Konishiki sumo wrestler
Yappet Koto actor, Homocide, Midnight Run, Alien
John Kruk U.S. baseball player
Fiorello LaGuardia former New York City mayor
Ricki Lake U.S. TV/movie actor and talk-show host
Hairspray, The Ricki Lake Show, China Beach
Judy Lamarsh Canadian politician
Ann Landers newspaper advice columnist
Lilly Langtrie
Mario Lanza sang opera and operetto in the movies in the
50s, The American Caruso.
Queen Latifah rap singer
Charles Laughton actor, played Hunchback in first sound version
of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, also played
Captain Bly on Mutiny on the Bounty
Rush Limbaugh U.S. right-wing political commentator
Emmanual Little
Rita MacNeil Canadian singer
Marjorie Main character actor, Ma Kettle of The Egg and I
and Ma and Pa Kettle series of movies
Hattie McDaniels movie actor, Gone with the Wind
Spanky McFarlane 60s pop musician
William McKinley U.S. president
Meatloaf rock singer, Bat Out of Hell album, also in
Rocky Horros Picture Show, Leap of Faith
Ethel Merman actor/singer, Annie Get Your Gun, No
Business Like Show Business
The Michelin Man advertising spokesperson
Barbara Mikulski U.S. politician, senator
Bette Midler singer, comedian, actor
Oliver Miller U.S. basketball player
Michael Moore Canadian movie and TV director, Roger & Me,
TV Nation
Zero Mostel comdian, actor, A Funny Thing Happened on the
Way to the Forum, Waiting for Godot
Kathy Najimy comdian, actor, The Kathy and Mo Show, the two
Sister Act movies, Witches of Eastwick
Nero Roman emperor
Jessye Norman opera singer
Carroll O'Connor U.S. TV actor
Tip O'Neill U.S. politician, Speaker of the House
Sandi Patty opera singer
Luciano Pavarotti opera singer
William "The Refrigerator" Perry U.S. football player
Miss Piggy http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~rosesage/Piggy.html
The Pillsbury Doughboy advertising spokesperson
Elvis Presley rock star
Paul Prudhomme chef
Anthony Quinn actor
Rob Reiner U.S. film director/actor, When Harry Met
Sally, Bullets Over Broadway
John Rhys-Davies TV actor, Sliders
Edward G. Robinson movie actor, gangster roles, The 10
Commandments
Linda Ronstadt popular/country music singer
Roseanne U.S. TV/movie actor (nee Arnold, nee Barr)
Roseanne, She-Devil
Babe Ruth U.S. baseball player
Marianne Sagebrecht movie actor, War of the Roses, Bagdad Cafe
Santa Claus fictional character
Beverly Sills opera singer and director
Anna Nicole Smith large-size model (she is not, by any
reasonable standard, fat)
Kate Smith singer (sang God Bless America during WWII)
Burno Ve Sota actor in B-Grade horror movies
Wendy Jo Sperber U.S. TV actor, Designing Women
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 19th centry feminist writer and lecturer
Sally Struthers singer, actor
Sharon Sweet operatic soprano, lead in Met's production of
Stifelio
William Howard Taft U.S. president
Elizabeth Taylor actor
Big Mama Thornton
Mel Torme smooth-voiced jazz singer
Liz Torres U.S. TV actor, Mahalia on John Laroquette
Richie Valens singer, La Bamba
Abigail Van Buren Newspaper advice columnist, Dear Abby
Vivien Vance Lucille Ball's sidekick on I Love Lucy
Luther Vandross singer
Reginald velJohnson actor, Die Hard, Family Matters
Fats Waller piano player, songwriter, performer
Martha Wash singer in groups Two Tons of Fun and The
Weather Girls
Al Waxman Canadian actor
Orson Wells radio personality, actor, writer director,
Citizen Kane
George Wendt actor
Mae West actor, comedian, My Little Chickadee
Forest Whitacre film actor
Barry White soul singer
Oscar Wilde Poet, novelist, playwright, unlucky in love
Ann Wilson
Brian Wilson singer, Beach Boys
Carnie Wilson singer, Wilson Phillips
Nancy Wilson
Oprah Winfrey U.S. TV/movie actor and talk-show host
The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Women of Brewster
Place, The Color Purple
Jonathon Winters comedian, actor
Shelley Winters actor
Trisha Yearwood country wester singer
Yoko Zuna
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A4) What is International No-Diet Day?
Saturday, May 6, 1995 has been designated International No Diet
Day 1995.
It is a day to:
* Declare a moratorium on diet/weight obsession,
* Learn the facts about weight-loss dieting, health, and body size,
* Celebrate the natural beauty and diversity of our sizes and shapes,
* Affirm every*body*'s right to health, fitness, and emotional
well-being,
* Recognize how dieting perpetuates violence against women,
* Honor the victims and survivors of eating disorders and weight-loss
surgery,
* Work to end fat oppression and size discrimination.
International No Diet Day is sponsored by a network of size rights,
anti-diet, feminist, and lesbian activists and organizations around
the world. Educational and political action events are being planned
in many local areas.
Following is a list of coordinators for International No Diet Day
1995:
Founder and Great Britain Coordinator
Mary Evans Young
Director, DietBreakers UK
Church Cottage
Barford St. Michael
Banbury, Oxon OX15 OUA England
Phone 0869-37070
Fax 0869-37177
Australia Coordinator
Kathy Sandow
Women At Large
12 Chancery Lane
Hawthorndene, SA 5051 Australia
Phone 278-6499
Canada Coordinator
Linda Omichinsky
HUGS International Inc.
Box 102A, RR #3
Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
Canada R1N 3A3
Phone 204-428-3432
Fax 204-428-5072
U.S. Coordinator
Lee Martindale
Rump Parliament Magazine
P. O. Box 181716
Dallas, TX 75218 USA
Phone 214-275-4449
Email 72113...@compuserve.com
NAAFA Coordinator
Sharon McDonald
P. O. Box 188620
Sacramento, CA 95818
Phone 1-800-442-1214
Fax 916-558-6881
Resource Directory
Miriam Berg
P. O. Box 305
Mt. Marion, NY 12456
Phone/fax 914-679-1209
T-shirts and buttons available from Lynn Meletiche
2065 First Ave., Suite 19D
New York NY 10029
(212) 289-3603
A packet with lots of useful information is available. To receive
it, or for more information on International No Diet Day 1995,
send $4 to:
Karen & Richard Stimson
Networking Facilitators
Largesse, the Network for Size Esteem
P. O. Box 9404
New Haven, CT 06534-0404
Phone/fax 203-787-1624
Email 7577...@compuserve.com
or Compuserve 75773,717
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A5) What are some responses to the standard offensive things said
to fat people? Do you know any _positive_ fat jokes? What
are some slogans for size-acceptance?
This list is compiled from things people have posted to s.s.f-a and
a.s.b-f. If you have additional slogans/jokes/responses, please do
send them in.
Responses
Some of these responses are intended to put off criticism, some are
intended to educate the critic, some are just intended to blow off
steam, some are intended to simply get the critic to shut up. Think
about what message they'll send before you use them.
If you are ever physically threatened (or hit) by someone who is
harassing you for your weight, have someone call the cops, and have
the person arrested for assault and/or battery. Someone once slapped
a fork out of Lee Martindale's hand while she was eating in a
restaurant. She had the restaurant owner call the police and had the
woman arrested for assault.
One woman reports talking to a man who said, "You have such a pretty
face..." Assuming this was a backhanded compliment, she began to
finish for him "If only...", when he interrupted her with, "If only
you were mine." :)
In response to "You have such a pretty face."
"Thank you! It goes along with my pretty body!"
In response to "Oh, you'd be such a pretty girl if you just lost all
that weight."
"Gee, you'd be such an intelligent person if you didn't make
statements like that."
In response to "You don't need that."
"You're absolutely right. I don't *need* it. I *want* it.
If I need it, it would mean that I was addicted to it, the way
you seem to be addicted to making stupid remarks."
A general purpose response to unsolicited rude comments:
"I hope you're not talking to me ... and so do you!",
delivered with a cold, cutting gaze, and a no-nonsense voice.
In response to unsolicited diet advice:
"Mom? (Dad?) Is that you?" Look the person right through the
eyes as if trying to see the inside of their skull, to see if
they are the reincarnation of that long-lost nagging parent.
In response to "You have such a pretty face, if only..."
"Why would I want my body to match your narrow mind?"
In response to some comment about "ugly fat":
"The only ugly fat in this room is in your head."
If you're eating something, say an ice cream cone, and someone
interrups you and says "You shouldn't be eating that.":
Spit the icecream out onto them, then thank them for saving
your life.
In response to "I'm so faaaaaaat!":
<pretending to see barely detectable fat> "Yes."
In response to "I'm having a 'fat day'":
<cheerfully> "Me too! Isn't it wonderful?"
In response to a worried question "Have I put on weight?":
"Yes! You look terrific! Someday, maybe the two of us will
shop for clothes together."
In response to "I feel HUGE!":
"Would you like to accompany me to the next NAAFA meeting?
NAAFA is a place where huge folk can really relax."
In response to "I'm getting so fat.":
"Subconsciously, you are trying to broaden that narrow mind of
your, but you have expanded your 'middle' instead of your
'mind'."
In response to "I need to get in shape!":
"Choose the shape 'triangle' and save your energy for more
important problems."
In response to "I'm going on Optifast.":
"I've decided to give the $5000 I would have spent on Optifast
to end world huger. My contribution to the world as a
'decorative' thin person would be so much less."
In response to "I look like a beached whale.":
"I have a theory that the emotional response people have to
whale beachings is due to transference of the need to preserve
maternal symbols."
In response to "I'm so fat.":
"So what. Even at 110, you wouldn't look like Christy
Brinkley. I like you just as you are, wrinkles and all. Why
can't you?"
In response to grousing about how awful it is to diet:
"Yeah, isn't dieting awful. That's why I just don't do it any
more!"
In response to the accusation that FAs attraction to large people is a
"fetish".
"Many men are attracted only to women who weigh between 105
and 120 pounds. I, on the other hand, am attracted to women
who weigh between 150 and 500 pounds. Now you tell *me* who
has a 'fetish'!"
In response to unsolicited diet advice and pamphlets:
"How dare you assume I'd rather be thin!"
In response to "You'd rather be fat than thin?":
"I'd rather be me than you."
"Yes."
Jokes
She's SOOOOO fat!
How fat is she?
She works at the airport kick-starting 747s.
Contributed by Sharon Curtis, who likes it because she feels
it conveys an image of *power*.
At about 300 pounds, William Howard Taft was our fattest
president. Wiseacre Chauncey Depew once quipped that he looked like he
was about to give birth. Taft replied, "If I give birth to a son, I
shall name it John. If I give birth to a daughter, I shall name it
Mary. But if it is, as I suspect, nothing but a great bag of wind, I
shall name it Chauncey Depew."
Contributed by Lenore Levine.
Slogans
One woman was sick of people in her aerobics class assuming she
was trying to lose weight. She had a T-shirt printed up with the
slogan: HOW DARE YOU PRESUME I'D RATHER BE THIN! (Also been seen on a
button.)
Seen on a T-shirt, along with a picture of the Venus of Willendorf,
"If this were the 1500s, I'd be a goddess!"
Lee Martindale was identified in a column in the Dallas Morning News
as a "fiery fatvocate".
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A6) What research is there on fat people other than on health?
MA Friedman and KD Brownell, "Psychological Correlates of Obesity:
Moving to the Next Research Generation", _Psychological
Bulletin_, v. 117, pp. 3-20.
SL Gortmaker et. al., N Engl J Med., 1983, v. 329, pp. 1008-1012.
James Rosen et al., "Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Negative Body
Image in Obese Women", _Behavior Therapy_, Jan-Feb-Mar 1995.
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SECTION B: Information about this FAQ
B1) Are there other related FAQs?
fat-acceptance-faq/clothing/canada
information about clothing for large people in Canada
fat-acceptance-faq/clothing/uk-europe
information about clothing for large people in Europe (and in
the United Kingdom in particular)
fat-acceptance-faq/clothing/us
information about clothing for large people in the U.S.
fat-acceptance-faq/health
information about health issues affecting large people
fat-acceptance-faq/organizations
information about organizations for large people
fat-acceptance-faq/physical
information about resources for dealing with the physical
aspects of being large
fat-acceptance-faq/publications
information about publications for large people
fat-acceptance-faq/resources
information about resources for large people (that aren't
covered in the other resources FAQs)
fat-acceptance-faq/size-acceptance
information about size-acceptance
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B2) Posting information
This document is posted monthly to news.answers and alt.answers and
posted bi-weekly to soc.support.fat-acceptance and
alt.support.big-folks. Sasha Wood (Sasha...@cs.cmu.edu) maintains
this FAQ.
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B3) Availability of the FAQ
All FAQs posted to news.answers are archived at rtfm.mit.edu and its
mirror sites. You can get any of these FAQs from rtfm.mit.edu via
anonymous FTP or via the mail archive server. (To get information
about the mail server, send email to mail-...@rtfm.mit.edu with the
body of the message containing the word "help", without the quotes.)
FAQs posted to news.answers are also available on the Web from:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/cgi-bin/faqwais
You can find this FAQ at the following URLs:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/fat-acceptance-faq/size-acceptance
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/fat-acceptance-faq/size-acceptance/faq.html
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/fat-acceptance-faq/size-acceptance.html
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B4) Contributors
These are the people who contribute significant chunks to the FAQ.
Sasha Wood <Sasha...@cs.cmu.edu>
Largesse <7577...@compuserve.com>
Also, lots and lots of other people (too many to credit) contributed
information that appears herein, some via email and some on s.s.f-a or
a.s.b-f. Thanks to them all.
Suggestions for additions/improvements are always welcome.