A Brief History of Fat Acceptance: NAAFA PWNED!

Happy hippy hoggers promote porcine pleasures of portliness

Amid all the other tumult, causes and revolutions of the 1960s — race, sex, war, feminism — the fight of the fat is a historical footnote. But America's overweight had their cause too. When hippies started staging "be-ins" to protest the Vietnam War, the first fat activists co-opted the idea: they staged their own event in New York City's Central Park, dubbed it a "Fat-In" and ate ice cream while burning posters of über-thin model Twiggy. Viva la revolución.

Ham armed hunny eating Hog in Daz

On July 31, the group that congealed out of those early demonstrations — the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) — is celebrating its 40th anniversary at a national convention in Washington. The all-volunteer group, comprising some 11,000 members nationwide, will use the meeting to raise funds, lobby congressional leaders and stage a plus-size fashion show and all you can eat buffets along with free diabetic supplies  — all in the name of promoting awareness of fat issues.

Uber hot gluttony critic MeMe Roth nemesis of jealous girls everywhere testifying before congress. Men want to see her and fat girls wish they could be her.

Critics say NAAFA, which opposes dieting and weight-loss surgery, is an apologist for an unhealthy lifestyle. But NAAFA says it does no such thing, that some people are just bigger and no less deserving of the same rights as everyone else. (Read "First Comes Love, Then Comes Obesity?")

Like some of its members, perhaps, the fat-acceptance movement has yo-yoed in size over the years. In the late 1960s, small groups were active on both coasts. NAAFA itself started in 1969 in New York City, although it was originally called the National Association to Aid Fat Americans. Engineer Bill Fabrey had tired of the discrimination his overweight wife faced and started the group as an advocate for the big-boned. But NAAFA remained at the periphery for years, prompting some members to argue for a more confrontational approach. Taking their cue from the radical left, several West Coast members split from NAAFA and in 1972 founded the Fat Underground — which espoused, without irony, the belief that social pressure and overwhelming medical opinion were perpetuating a campaign of "genocide" against fat people. (Read "Why Are Southerners So Fat?")

Is this a NAAFA convention or the Bay of Pigs?

The radicalism was short-lived. Fat Underground never totaled more than a handful of people and was more of a nuisance than an actual threat — members gave speeches and harassed weight-loss groups but never resorted to actual violence. By the early 1980s, Fat Underground fizzled out, while NAAFA — by then renamed the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance — remained the most vocal advocate for the rights of obese Americans.

NAAFA Convention regulars Fattatina Wit and Coach Gaines display tapeworm fished out of a BBW's rectum. Coach Gaines cooked and this bastardly brutal bowel bully and fed it to the same BBW. She remarked, "YUM! This is the best calamari I ever ate. YUM! That's some mighty good eatin."

NAAFA has grown larger in tandem with Americans. According to the Centers for Disease Control, two-thirds of adult Americans are now overweight and half of those qualify as obese. There's a burgeoning blog community, dubbed the Fatosphere, where bloggers rail against antiobesity messages in the media. Although a second group, the International Size Acceptance Association, started in 1997, NAAFA has emerged as the foremost defender in the press of overweight Americans, throwing its weight around on issues ranging from Simon Cowell's fat jokes on American Idol to airlines' making obese passengers pay for a second seat. (Read "Brazilian Obesity: The Big Girl from Ipanema.")

Miss Piggy Howell

Its message, however, has many doctors skeptical. "Virtually everyone who is overweight would be better off at a lower weight," Walter Willett, chairman of the nutrition department at Harvard's School of Public Health, told the New York Times in early July. "There's been this misconception, fostered by the weight-is-beautiful groups, that weight doesn't matter. But the data are clear." NAAFA's public-relations director, Miss Piggy Howell, says her group doesn't encourage anyone to lead an unhealthy lifestyle but recognizes that for some people weight loss isn't possible. "We don't encourage people to get fat," Howell says. A 2008 Yale University study suggests weight discrimination is now as prevalent as race or gender discrimination, a trend Howell says is unacceptable. "As a citizen of the U.S., just because I carry more weight on my back doesn't mean I should have any fewer rights than anyone else," she maintains.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1913858,00.html#ixzz1ItWwhwtD

Naughty NAAFA nymphs, corpulent cuties and big bellied babes prepare to pounce on and flatten fat admirer

Mainstream gluttons like the 85% of Americans know that gluttony is good. If they did not believe that then they would not be big fat goodie gobbling gormandizing  gluttons. NAAFA wants American gluttons to live a lie by denying the greedy gluttonous nature and their god - the Belly God.



Ladies and gentlemen; START YOUR EATING! 

The Poetry of Bigger Fatter Blog

That dog faced gremlin Kate Harding can have her "shapelings" and Shapely Prose because we here at Bigger Fatter Blog have our fatlings and our piggy poetry. Our first selection is (click ----------> Jolly Old Panniculus 

Jolly Old Panniculus originally was a tribute to fatlings with particularly pendulous pannies but the real action is in the comments section. It turns out that a NAAFA Womyn aka Dee, aka Smilin Dee, aka Dee Dillard, aka Deanne Lopez a NAAFA reject took great umbrage at the use of her picture and demanded that it be removed. At the time I, Fat Bastard was on sabbatical and incommunicado so I was unable to respond to the demands of this fiery SSBBW. However, my faithful friend and blog partner Proud FA aka the Dean of Feederism  handled Dee with real style and our many readers such as the Chef, Rev Big Lard Ass, Belly Boy, Coach Gaines, and the erudite "Dr"Teddy" Bear also handled this SSBBW with grace and tact. Upon my return I, Fat Bastard,  Graciously invited Ms Dillard to be part of Bigger Fatter Blog and remove the image in question if she could produce proof that the image was indeed here and they it came from her website. She did not or could not comply. She then accused Proud FA of being a ex boyfriend but when asked to give us his email so that we could contact him and verify her claims see again did not comply. Anyway, the poem and the comments section are good reads and well worth the time.

Pretty in pink: Porky plumper presents pendulous pannus

Here is the image in question.

Our next selection is a poem the celebrates the noble glutton and his glorious greedy gluttony. The poem is about me and it is appropriately titled click ---------> GLUTTON

Corn fed glutton chowing down!

Here is an image from the pictorial essay that goes along with this poem.

Our final and favorite selection click -------> Fatty at the Fat was written by me, Fat Bastard, weight loss guru CG Brady and our own Dean of Feederism Proud FA. It is a fan favorite and it has been quoted by several major news outlets. Fatty at the Fat delves into many of the not so lighter sides of obesity and gluttony such as the exploitation of the gluttony bloom by the medical industry and charlatans like Dr Phil. It also speaks to the the very real dangers of hyper gluttony and obese lifestyles but in the end it is a tribute to all fatlings who are indeed the Evel Kienevels of food.


Here is an image from the pictorial essay that accompanies Fatty at the Fat.

Click on the titles of the poem to read them. Enjoy!