We are well aware that this post goes against the entire mission statement of the association itself, but what do you think of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA)?
NAAFA’s mission statement is to fight discrimination in daily life against people who are overweight, but couldn’t you argue that it serves the purpose of making it more acceptable to be fat?
There is a fine line between being overweight and fighting the media’s image of beauty. My point is that it seems ridiculous to be wildly overweight, not diet or exercise, be emblematic of a lot of health and eating problems and then say, “I’m doing my part to fix the image of beauty in America.”
Although, maybe that’s the solution and it’s where NAAFA could come into play. Instead of being a civil rights group that protects the rights of the fat, they should be a militant eating organization that forces everyone else to be fat so that we completely lose the idea of what it means to be skinny.
Wouldn’t that be great if they had guerilla insurgents who snuck into the homes of supermodels and hooked their veins into an Oreo cookie IV? Or they started a national campaign for something called the “Cookie Diet.” Wait a second, maybe they’re more advanced than I thought.
It seems like the first step to wanting to get in shape is saying that you are out of shape, and if you have an organization that says it’s OK for you to be fat and to embrace it, then you’ll never motivate yourself to change. You could also make the argument of maybe you don’t want to change.
Video games rock, unhealthy food is delicious and social security might dry up, so what’s the point in trying to live a long life? So embrace being obese, but then if you get discriminated against then maybe you need someone to get your back. Where do you stand? Legitimate organzation or a NAAFA-member-offending joke?
We are well aware that this post goes against the entire mission statement of the association itself, but what do you think of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA)?
NAAFA’s mission statement is to fight discrimination in daily life against people who are overweight, but couldn’t you argue that it serves the purpose of making it more acceptable to be fat?
There is a fine line between being overweight and fighting the media’s image of beauty. My point is that it seems ridiculous to be wildly overweight, not diet or exercise, be emblematic of a lot of health and eating problems and then say, “I’m doing my part to fix the image of beauty in America.”
A little junk in the trunk can work
Although, maybe that’s the solution and it’s where NAAFA could come into play. Instead of being a civil rights group that protects the rights of the fat, they should be a militant eating organization that forces everyone else to be fat so that we completely lose the idea of what it means to be skinny.
Wouldn’t that be great if they had guerilla insurgents who snuck into the homes of supermodels and hooked their veins into an Oreo cookie IV? Or they started a national campaign for something called the “Cookie Diet.” Wait a second, maybe they’re more advanced than I thought.
It seems like the first step to wanting to get in shape is saying that you are out of shape, and if you have an organization that says it’s OK for you to be fat and to embrace it, then you’ll never motivate yourself to change. You could also make the argument of maybe you don’t want to change.
Video games rock, unhealthy food is delicious and social security might dry up, so what’s the point in trying to live a long life? So embrace being obese, but then if you get discriminated against then maybe you need someone to get your back. Where do you stand? Legitimate organzation or a NAAFA-member-offending joke?
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