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Found today on the New York Times website is an article titled:

In the Fatosphere, Big Is in, or at Least Accepted

Within this article a reporter discussed the emergence of fat positive blogs. The title of this article leaves the reader to assume that being fat is "in" and is accepted. However, all of the blogs mentioned are produced by self identifying fat people These people want the world to accepts their bodies they way they are and to no longer discriminate based on size.

The first few lines of the article are as follows:

"For years, health experts have been warning that Americans are too fat, that we exercise too little and eat too much, that our health is in jeopardy.

Some fat people beg to differ.

Blogs written by fat people — and it’s fine to use the word, they say — have multiplied in recent months, filling a virtual soapbox known as the fatosphere, where bloggers calling for fat acceptance challenge just about everything conventional medical wisdom has to say about obesity."

I do not feel that this is the message behind fat positive activism. I find that fat positive activism is an attempt to battle the negative stereotypes surrounding people of size, a way to battle corporate size discrimination, and a way to embrace body's of all shapes and sizes.

I felt like this article should have been posted within the Cultural of Lifestyle section of the news paper. However, it was found in the Health section of the paper. Thus, undermining the ultimate goal of fat positive activism.