Greta Christina's fat positive manifesto

[ciphergoth]

I froze the discussion here because I thought it deserved a top-level post of its own, rather than being under a general discussion of Greta Christina. A few weeks ago she posted a very interesting series of articles on the fat-positive movement and her own beliefs; I'd be very interested to read more about what people think of them.

"I was frankly shocked at how callous most of the fat-positive advocates were about my bad knee. I was shocked at how quick they were to ignore or dismiss it. They were passionately concerned about the quality of life I might lose if I counted calories or stopped eating chocolate bars every day. But when it came to the quality of life I might lose if I could no longer dance, climb hills, climb stairs, take long walks, walk at all? Eh. Whatever. I should try exercise or physical therapy or something. Oh, I'd tried those things already? Well, whatever."

• The Fat-Positive Diet
• The Fat-Positive Skeptic
• An Open Letter to the Fat-Positive Movement

Comments

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

My conclusion: evidence of correlation is not evidence of causation

But correlation is evidence of either correlation in one direction or the other, or a common cause (or, as I suspect is more likely, some combination of the three). Also, one of the problems with (parts of) the fat positive movement, and Sandy in particular, is that they seem to be denying that there's even correlation.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

I think Sandy's position is that some studies show a weak correlation at a level which is not normally thought sufficient to warrant further investigation of causation.

[djm4]

But correlation is evidence of either correlation in one direction or the other,

You mean 'but correlation is evidence of either causation in one direction or the other...', don't you?