Fattitude. Kickstarter project for fat acceptance documentary raises $41,000 for a feature-length movie about how being fat is great.

gekkozorz · 2014-05-18T19:10:00+00:00

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Humansteaks03 · 2014-05-18T19:04:53+00:00

Yep and my university offers fat acceptance classes as well. I've wanted to go and sit in on a class sometime for giggles.

Invalidity · 2014-05-18T19:06:29+00:00

How can I be sure that they won't spend that money on cheeseburgers and fries

Hormander · 2014-05-18T18:58:30+00:00

You know how many gym memberships you could get for $41K?

exit_sandman · 2014-05-18T18:15:54+00:00

One should counter this by making a film about Jen Davis instead - a woman slightly on the chubbier side with 270 lbs until she decided that losing one third of her weight was a good idea:

*When Davis was 23, her work took a turn: Reading through her old journals, she was struck by the fact that her grievances—being overweight, missing out on romantic love—had been the same for years. [...] And then, in the spring of 2011, during a photography residency in Syracuse, New York, while Davis was reviewing her portfolio—dozens of portraits blown up and hung on the wall—she was struck with the same feeling of horror she'd felt reading through her journals when she was 23. "In ten years, my body hadn't really changed, and I hadn't changed, either," she says. [...] Davis has not only adjusted to a new lifestyle but dedicated herself utterly to it. She has revamped her diet—eating mindfully (without distractions like the computer), avoiding simple carbohydrates, enjoying the feeling of filling up on nutritious foods like fruits and vegetables. She also hits the gym twice a week for cardio and weights, and does Pilates twice a week at home.

Davis had always assumed she'd die young when she was obese and a heavy smoker, and on some level, she was okay with that. Now she shudders to recall that feeling of indifference. There's so much to live for—including the thrill of going on first dates. "I'm 34, and I've never had a boyfriend," she says with a wistful smile. "I have a lot to learn."*

http://www.oprah.com/health/Jen-Davis-Self-Portraits-Weight-Loss-and-Photography

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/9930597/Jen-Davis-interview-The-skin-I-was-in.html

Instead of preaching fat acceptance, they should give cases like hers coverage: Being obese is not healthy, it will drain you empty, and it will severely handicap your dating life.

2014-05-18T21:11:15+00:00

They say that there is no correlation between fat and unhealthy in that intro. That is complete bullshit, the rate of diabetes among obese people is testimony towards that.

Perhaps they are talking about slightly overweight people. There is no correlation between slightly overweight and negative health issues. So perhaps they are right we should change our attitudes towards the word fat.

Leave slightly overweight people to be chubby and fat for the truly lazy unhealthy beasts. It is also strange on the one hand they are saying people shouldn't care if someone is fat (I agree with that actually) but in the same breath then make excuses for why they are fat. So what is it?

Being fat is unhealthy end of story. You want to reduce your lifespan and have a sadder life go right ahead all power to you I don't give a shit. When you try and make a video getting people to think that fat has no health consequences you are being delusional and can actually harm peoples health.

monsieurhire2 · 2014-05-18T19:45:08+00:00

It is great . . . if you are a healthcare professional looking to make money off of treating diabetes, or an orthopedic surgeon who can make money on knee and foot surgeries, or a restaurant owner who makes money selling oversized portions, or a textile manufacturer, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. It's all about what your POV is! Everything is relative! Wheeeeeee!!!!!!!!

PaperDesk · 2014-05-18T21:33:25+00:00

The best part is that one of the awards is they won't let you use it for educational purposes until you give like 200 dollars. They don't give a shit about Fat Acceptance worldwide, they just want to get paid. The best part is that all the creators are fat women.

ManowaR1488 · 2014-05-18T21:20:26+00:00

I'm a fat guy who is constantly fighting it, yo-yoing from in shape to fat again...This kind of thing insults me. There is nothing to be gained from being unhealthy.

OGBigBoss · 2014-05-18T19:45:02+00:00

For fun I'd like to start one for thin acceptance, I bet it would get media coverage from outraged feminists

t21spectre · 2014-05-18T22:19:17+00:00

The arguments in this video were absolutely insane:

"We can send a man to the moon but we can't design a plane safely for human beings? (with regard to fat people having to pay more for airline seats)"

It's not that we CAN'T design such a plane, it's that such a plane is far less economically advantageous for the airline.

"When you are calorie deficient, you lose cognitive ability. Therefore, the reason society encourages women to stay skinny is so men can stay in control of them"

It implies that skinny people must be calorie deficient when that is not necessarily the case. Furthermore, it implies that our culture only targets fat women when it clearly it targets all fat people.

bitchdantkillmyvibe · 2014-05-18T22:50:16+00:00

Lol, and people criticise me for associating the fat acceptance movement with the female gender. Look at every single person associated with that doco.

Super_Positive · 2014-05-18T23:34:41+00:00

Studies have shown that when you are calorie deficient you are not as cognitively active than you would be otherwise, so it's a way of weakening women and keeping them focused on something irrelevant so they can't be as powerful in the world.

Yuuuuup. The skinny woman ideal is not because its incredibly attractive to see a thin woman, but because its the patriarchy oppressing them and keeping them nutrient deprived and stupid.

This is the typical solopsistic, victim mentality that feminists utilise - "Its society, not the individual" , "They're (notice how they dont say it, but imply that only men are to blame as a whole) shaming us for being lazy fat fucks, quick, lets change the definition of attractive because I'm too lazy to change my body.

Fat acceptance literally baffles me, here in Australia it doesn't seem to be much of a problem as fat women are generally pitied. (Fat men are invisible to women, so they don't care).

t21spectre · 2014-05-18T23:47:29+00:00

anyone notice how harder is to have to constantly try to get people to find fat attractive than it is to just lose the fucking weight

wakingslowdiver · 2014-05-19T08:43:42+00:00

the funniest shit I've seen all week!

What the flying fuck?

"the word fat, it should be illegal to call someone fat!!!"

"It's a cultural thing that fat is unhealthy"

Lol this is too funny, Americans really think like this?? Let me tell you, being a fat girl in the Netherlands is like being an omega male. They don't have an attitude here. If they made a documentary like that here, nobody would watch it, and everybody would just tell them to lose weight cause it's unhealthy.

But I guess if your nation consists of 50% fatties they sort of take over.

exit_sandman · 2014-05-19T02:48:15+00:00

If being fat was actually great, there wouldn't need to be a movie about it. People would just know it.

Hughtub · 2014-05-18T23:14:02+00:00

I bet every Machiavellian butter face in the country is giving money towards this, which gets rid of their borderline fat competition.

cruxae · 2014-05-19T03:39:27+00:00

Don't see how they can compare race and being fat...

They keep saying, oh it doesn't matter if you're fat or black or white...whaaat?

You can't control what race you are, but you can control whether you're a whale or not.

DarkCircle · 2014-05-19T01:18:27+00:00

I am all for people having a healthy self esteem about their weight. Self hate and eating disorders are not at all good things. However putting being seriously over weight on a pedestal like it is a good thing is ridiculous. There should be more normal looking role models on TV but don't try to dictate what anyone should find beautiful or attractive.

raceAround126 · 2014-05-19T06:56:01+00:00

This disgusts me something chronic.

Background, I lost a tonne of weight. It's taken me four years, I'm in a healthy shape now, turned my attention to building muscle and I'm in the best shape and look the best I have ever done in my life. That's coming from a point in life where I was having trouble fitting into the driving seat of most vans!

I blame my terrible weight for causing so many other problems - partially my ex not liking sex with me, failures at work, being written off by the fat funny one by friends.

I worked on this shit. It's taken four dedicated years to get to where I am and I'm still not done.

I walk around these days, and I physically find fat people utterly disgusting. I can't bear to talk to them. I don't know what it is, it's hypocritical for one. Utterly so. But the other day, I was at lunch, made my tuna salad and these three fat people (two women one guy) were tucking into all manner of microwaved lasagne crap, crisps, coke and all that shit. I had to take my food and eat somewhere else they made me that sick.

To see crap like this, it just boils me over. Fat acceptance is unacceptable! Wholly unacceptable. It enables these people to maintain very unhealthy lifestyles and excuse their obvious depression which goes hand in hand with being overweight and looking unattractive. If you feel unattractive and feel there's nothing you can do, it does equal depression.

How this crap is getting funded is beyond me! I mean, surely the fat bastards paying into this kickstarter should instead be spending the money on a gym membership? Or a pair of trainers to just start walking around the block in? I mean, every start is small... but it's a fucking start?

2014-05-19T12:22:33+00:00

The Fat Acceptance movement is just a giant excuse for women to not hit the gym and self-improve. Gluttony Glamorized. Most of these girls are in their 20's. Let's see how much you love being a fat tubby pg when you're 40 and diabetic and hypertensive and even low-value males don't wanna shove it in ya. Then you go lesbian because any and all male interest has dried up.

DreadMe · 2014-05-19T02:23:38+00:00

I have no problem with fat women, but if they expect me a decent looking fit male to choose their fat asses as a sexual partner over a woman that isn't? Then either they are stupid, or incredibly lazy to actually believe this shit.

Menadian · 2014-05-19T10:39:24+00:00

Most fat people do not have that pretty a face....

ketebwoy · 2014-05-19T11:24:40+00:00

I can't wait to watch this comedic gold.

Dopamine37 · 2014-05-19T12:03:49+00:00

I have a theory why thin beautiful women will support this:

It destroys any competitors, why would a pretty woman want other women to lose weight and be a threat to her.

Daddy45 · 2014-05-19T14:22:49+00:00

Hilarious! The movie should be sponsored by the makers of chocolate chip cookies and ice cream.

2014-05-19T15:59:55+00:00

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cipahs · 2014-05-20T19:16:39+00:00

Here's some acceptance videos for the problem I have http://youtu.be/OloLS5kTrVs

2014-05-19T08:07:40+00:00

Oh, who cares.

We had tigers, cougars and lions in the past. Now, there's diabetes, stroke, infarction and many more.

"Let the God sort them out" :-)

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