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The Adipositivity Project aims to promote size acceptance, not by listing the merits of big people, or detailing examples of excellence (these things are easily seen all around us), but rather, through a visual display of fat physicality. The sort that's normally unseen. The hope is to widen definitions of physical beauty. Literally.

I'm torn whether to continue Nirpal Dhaliwal watch now he and Liz Jones have split up. I'm way behind in my keeping up anyway, but in the meantime another outing for that photo of Liz Jones with a horse and the news that she will now refer to Nirps as 'the Fat Sportswear-Clad Nobody'.

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Hoorah for Nirpal Dhaliwal watch!

The Adipositivity Project is an awesome name and a great project - I remember consciously re-educating my eyes to catch up with my libido when I started going out with the triffically round and glorious Gerald - but I think I missed the bit where it became empowering to exhibit photos of naked women with no heads. I dunno, I just think the NME Beth Ditto cover (::whimper::) or Megaera's Abundant Beauty series (we have this one up in our bathroom) are more beautiful and splendid. And I don't think it's coincidental that THEY HAVE HEADS.

Judging by the content of the website, adipositivity seems to be about promoting those who would be clinically diagnosed as morbidly obese. Isn't this just another celebration and glamourisation of excess? One would have thought that size acceptance would be about celebrating natural range as beautiful as a whole rather than a narrow focus on a clear minority. You could almost mistake this as a form of leading encouragement rather than the promotion of acceptance.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the photographs as very beautiful, but from my perspective the site is straying into the realms of fetishism. I guess the reason that the size acceptance movement is mostly about the acceptance of the particularly large is lost on me and that's before I get onto the health issues.

I suppose it's the fashion industry's fascination with the particularly small, yes someone that's a stone over what is decided to be ideal will get stick as well as someone who is ten stone, but it's easier to make the point with the large.

And you say fetishism as though it were a bad thing! ;-)

I enjoy fetishes as much as the next guy. Well, actually I think I might enjoy fetishes a little bit more than the next guy, now that I live in insular provinciality. But in this context I think that fetish is a bad thing. It's an abnormality in terms and that in itself if a barrier to acceptance.

A single Nirpal will surely be as entertaining as an attached Nirpal? Besides, Liz Jones v annoying - am happy for her that she is rid of him but have no desire to read about her obsessing about ridiculously expensive face creams and suchlike.

Nirpal popped up on one of those "I Love The ...ties/Ultimate Something or Others" type programmes not so long ago. He didn't say anything particularly arsey, but nothing particularly impressive either. I hope that was not a sign that his media profile is on the up. Ooh, and Private Eye did a 'Hackwatch' on him & Liz Jones a few issues back.

The real question is, can Nirpal continue to produce priceless fresh specimens of arseholery worthy of analysis? If you're writing NDW, then I'll be reading ...

If you believe in me then, < sniff > that makes it all WORTHWHILE! < heroic music >

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