Reporters Barred From ‘Fat Liberation’ Event at UW-Madison
“We reject the idea that a body type can be a disease”
This was apparently part of a ‘Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium.’ What a surprise.
The College Fix reports:
UW-Madison bars reporters from ‘fat liberation’ event
“Health is not just about health,” Kelsey Foster, a university librarian, said at the Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium conference on April 10 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“We reject the idea that a body type can be a disease,” she said. “It’s possible to be fat and healthy, fat and unhealthy, thin and healthy, thin and unhealthy.”
The university prohibited The College Fix and other media from taking any photos as well as recording audio and video. About 25 people attended the event. Recording is prohibited throughout the entire three-day panel held at the publicly-funded university. The conference is titled “Embodying Feminism: Calling In, Calling Out, Calling to Action.”
Foster (pictured) gave a presentation titled “Fat Girl Glossary.” She has been “an active member of online fat positive communities for over a decade,” according to her talk description.
She spoke on a panel titled “Embodying and Embracing Fatness as Liberation” that consisted of three 20-minute presentations and a Q&A session.
Foster began her talk with a slide that contained a Tumblr post that read: “Just a reminder that I’m FAT and HAPPY and if you don’t like that then that is entirely your problem :)) – double chin smile just 4 u.”
Her talk focused on the various terms used in online fat-culture communities.
“We have words we use sometimes to combat the tyranny of the BMI,” she said, referring to Body Mass Index.
Throughout her talk, Foster defined various terms such as “Deathfatty” and “Infinifat” which both refer to morbid obesity.
Other terms mentioned in her talk included “fat positivity,” which she defined as the belief that fatness is a good thing and fat people are good people; “body positivity,” meaning all bodies are good bodies; “Body Neutrality,” the idea that the body is neither good nor bad- it just is; and “fat liberation,” which she said imagines a future free from oppression based on body size and the tyranny of “healthism.”
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Even The View chicks?!
There was literally no room for them!
“Health is not just about health”
Just like rape.
It’s not really health health…
Fat liberation! Do they hand out discount coupons for liposuction???
Hey fat girls! Don’t want to be fat? Stop stuffing your fat face with cookies!!
Their unspoken truth is nobody actually WANTS to be fat. You can’t tie your shoes or clip your toenails, getting up from a chair is difficult, you can’t even sit comfortably in many narrow seats (like on airplanes or many cars) you have to roll out of bed, walking is more difficult, and that’s not even getting into the health issues involved.
But losing weight is hard and discouragingly slow. Still, its’s not doing anyone any favors by pretending obesity is consequence free.
Can’t help but remember certain Married With Children episodes when this comes up.
In the words of Al Bundy,
“One, two, three, and four. Yer gonna fall through the floor!”
We should all send the university a thank you note for barring pictures of the obesity fat in.
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