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| | [[File:G. Christina.jpg|thumbnail|right|230px|Picture of Greta Christina in 2010.]] | | [[File:G. Christina.jpg|thumbnail|right|230px|Picture of Greta Christina in 2010.]] |
| | '''Greta Christina''' is a popular [[atheism|atheist]], [[feminism|feminist]] blogger at [[Freethought Blogs]]. In addition, she is an 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 [[atheism|atheist]], [[feminism|feminist]] blogger at [[Freethought Blogs]]. In addition, she is an atheist speaker and author. She is in a [[same-sex marriage]] with a woman named Ingrid.<ref>http://gretachristina.com/personal.html</ref> |
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| − | 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 [[Physical and mental health related problems associated with obesity|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>
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| − | Within the feminist movement, there a branch of feminism called fat feminism.<ref>{{cite book |last=Willett |first=Julie |title=TheAmerican Beauty Industry Encyclopedia |year=2010 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=0313359490 |page=114 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CljLw4sH2DMC&dq=fat+feminism&source=gbs_navlinks_s |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20131112202126/http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kxvlP_3AH40C&pg=PA138&dq=fat+feminism&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Q-97UZeYO4HbPcCCgOgK&ved=0CC8Q6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=fat%20feminism&f=false |archivedate=21 November 2013 |deadurl=no}}, page 14</ref> The lesbian population in the [[Western World]] has a significantly higher rate of obesity (see: [[Lesbianism and obesity]]). For more information please see: [[Atheism and the fat acceptance movement]] and [[Atheism and obesity]]
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| − | 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>
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| − | [[File:Greta Christina.jpg|thumbnail|left|200px|Picture of Greta Christina in 2007.
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| − | <small>(photo from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/black_pearl_10/946634222/in/photostream/ Flickr], see: [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ license agreement])</small>]]
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| − | Greta Christina wrote in 2010:
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| − | {{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.
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| − | It's just that they don't feel the same way about me.
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| − | 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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| | == Greta Christian on atheist movement participants and anger == | | == Greta Christian on atheist movement participants and anger == |