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'''Greta Christina''' is a popular atheist, feminist blogger at [[Freethoughtblogs]]. In addition, she is a atheist speaker and author. She is in a same-sex marriage with a woman named Ingrid.<ref>http://gretachristina.com/personal.html</ref>
'''Greta Christina''' is a popular atheist, feminist blogger at [[Freethoughtblogs]]. In addition, she is a atheist speaker and author. She is in a same-sex marriage with a woman named Ingrid.<ref>http://gretachristina.com/personal.html</ref>
For years, Greta Christina was involved in the "fat acceptance" movement and largely dismissed the abundant medical science data indicating the negative health effects of being overweight. Her "fat acceptance" beliefs were altered though when she had some serious knee problems which caused her to lose excess weight.<ref>[http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2010/12/caught-between-fat-and-thin.html Caught Between Fat and Thin: When a Fat Acceptance Advocate Takes Off the Pounds] by [[Greta Christina]]</ref> Within the feminist movement there a branch of feminism called fat feminism. The lesbian population in the [[Western World]] has a significantly higher rate of obesity (see: [[Lesbianism and obesity]]). A 2007 picture of an overweight Greta Christiana can be found [http://www.flickr.com/photos/black_pearl_10/945788365/ HERE].
For years, Greta Christina very much agreed with the "fat acceptance" movement and largely dismissed the abundant medical science data indicating the negative health effects of being overweight. Her "fat acceptance" beliefs were altered though when she had some serious knee problems which caused her to lose excess weight.<ref>[http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2010/12/caught-between-fat-and-thin.html Caught Between Fat and Thin: When a Fat Acceptance Advocate Takes Off the Pounds] by [[Greta Christina]]</ref> Within the feminist movement there a branch of feminism called fat feminism. The lesbian population in the [[Western World]] has a significantly higher rate of obesity (see: [[Lesbianism and obesity]]). A 2007 picture of an overweight Greta Christiana can be found [http://www.flickr.com/photos/black_pearl_10/945788365/ HERE].
Today, Christina has a more limited agreement with the fat acceptance movement, but still considers herself apart of it.<ref>[http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2010/12/caught-between-fat-and-thin.html Caught Between Fat and Thin: When a Fat Acceptance Advocate Takes Off the Pounds] by [[Greta Christina]]</ref>
Greta Christina wrote in 2010:
And while I have huge disagreements with the fat acceptance movement -- especially with its more extreme denialist edges -- I still think many of its ideas are important, and perceptive, and entirely fair. I have serious disagreements with FA, but I am still very much shaped by it, and I would like to think of myself as an ally of the movement, and even as a member of it.
It's just that they don't feel the same way about me.
Or about other fat people who choose to lose weight.<ref>[http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2010/12/caught-between-fat-and-thin.html Caught Between Fat and Thin: When a Fat Acceptance Advocate Takes Off the Pounds] by [[Greta Christina]]</ref>}}
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