Besides Dawn French's one and this one, does anyone know any other fat positive documentaries?

I was wondering if we should start a little campaign. Like every time we find a new publication that is anti-dieting (even if not happy with fat? only if happy with fat?) we could send a standard thank you e-mail, saying 'Your publication has helped someone today--me. Many thanks.'

It must be hard to buck the trend all the time, and be isolated by all your professional peers. It must be wickedly hard to get published and to advance your career. I was just trying to imagine how to be encouraging to such folks.

Here's a little piece from New Scientist--and yes, I read it pretty regularly, so no swipes!

www.newscientist.com/article/dn19406-losing-weight-may-pollute-the-blood.html

Here are the first two paragraphs, as a bit of incentive to read the rest, which is quite short:



Shall we start a pool on how much press this gets in comparison to some new study telling us why we're all dying from fat? <sigh>

This article appears in the Times Higher Education magazine:
tinyurl.com/2uqnjqj
I was delighted to see it, but it made me think how hard it must be for medical researchers who buck the prevailing wisdom.

I suddenly wondered if there were any way we could support researchers, or help them feel like what they're doing is important... I dunno.

Thoughts?

I agree--I had forgotten it, but I liked it at the time.

I watched the whole thing, finally, and I thought it was surprisingly good. Are there other good documentaries we should know about?

Have you told anyone you're an FA? That is definitely loads easier, and you'll be surprised how well most people will take it. If someone hassles you about *that*, you shouldn't be friends anyway.

I think Debz is right--most people are surprisingly cool about what their friends do.

My own--perhaps greedy--sense of the thing that troubles Debz is that we need both, not one or the other. Until discrimination goes away, people need safe spaces where they know they won't be harrassed or made fun of or ignored. Ideally, if there comes a time when discrimination disappears (see me not holding my breath?), those 'safe spaces' will not be needed and they can fade away.

In the meantime, though, I think it's absolutely crucial for us to keep asking for inclusion in everything there is. Given the percentages in the US and UK (I don't know about other countries, I'm afraid) of 'overweight' and 'obese' people, aka BBWs/BHMs and SSBBWs/SSBHMs, I think our absence in the media is an important thing to push against. How we go about that is a different question.