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[blahflowers]

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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[ill-prezidante.livejournal.com]

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.

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

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! ;-)

[ill-prezidante.livejournal.com]

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.