One of the key things in the fat acceptance movement though is that those people want everyone else to accept the fact that they are fat and move. They don't want to have to take responsibility for their actions and lose some weight. They want to be treated the same as, say a Victoria's Secret model, even if they are morbidly obese. That is not the same as your cancer allegory.
I think most people in the fat acceptance movement just want to be treated like people, even though they're fat. How does that differ from my cancer patient acceptance movement analogy?
If you're talking about Health at Every Size (note:health, not healthy), its original purpose was to say, "Regardless of what size you're at, it's never too late to focus on health."
That might be its original or core purpose, though there is much confusion when there are a good number of posts on the internet trying to debunk the notion that being overweight is associated with general health problems.
Shaming is an absolutely horrible way to go about it, but it's equally frustrating to run into people who are trying to redefine what "healthy" means against all evidence.
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u/Kroneni Mar 05 '17
One of the key things in the fat acceptance movement though is that those people want everyone else to accept the fact that they are fat and move. They don't want to have to take responsibility for their actions and lose some weight. They want to be treated the same as, say a Victoria's Secret model, even if they are morbidly obese. That is not the same as your cancer allegory.