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Revision as of 17:36, September 10, 2014
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=== Ex-overweight people ostracized and similarities to treatment of ex-homosexuals ===
=== Ex-overweight people ostracized and similarities to treatment of ex-homosexuals ===
Ex-overweight people are often subjected to ostracism by fat movement acceptance activists.
For example, for years, Greta Christina was overweight and 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 a serious knee problem which prompted her to lose her 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>
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:
{{Cquote|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.<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>}}
== Rejection of the movement by the medical science community and public policy makers ==
== Rejection of the movement by the medical science community and public policy makers ==