moominmuppet

Thank you and I am glad you enjoyed the movie. I agree it was hard to watch. We were disappointed that it was not more fat-positive overall and it seems that the producer originally had wanted it to focus more on the fat positive stuff but the powers that be wanted more of the other stuff. Overall, I and the rest of the people I know in the fat-positive section were glad we were in it but wished there had been more focus on what is wrong with the societal framing of "fat is bad" rather than the somewhat overworked "fat people are saaaaad/lonely/depressed". OK, I know that is totally oversimplifying the issue, but I think you get what I mean. I wish there had been more of "this person is sad/lonely/depressed because of the awful and inhumane way she/he is treated because she/he is fat" rather than assuming the sadness/loneliness were a somewhat justifiable result of being fat and she/he should change their bodies rather than asking the world to change how they treat fat people. I saw in the movie a lot of what I hate Oprah for--lamenting how awful it is to be fat in this world and internalizing it and trying to change oneself rather than working to change how society treats fat people. I mention Oprah because she is a HUGE offender of this and is incredibly powerful and I think she could be using that power to improve the lives of fat people (like herself) but instead she chooses to buy into all the diet insanity and doesn't seem to think that fat people deserve love and respect as is.

I think the movie documented accurately many a fat person's struggle in this world, I just they had done more to explore how to change societal circumstances for fat people rather than focusing so much on how to change fat people into non-fat people.

Oh, and baby_fly was in the movie too. I was ~25 weeks pregnant when they filmed.

Thank you for being such an inspirational fat-positive person yourself. You rock in all the ways you are fighting fat-phobia.