Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance In her essay‚ “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance”‚ Mary Ray Worley argues that there are different ways that society can view fat people and fatness. After her experiences at the annual convention of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA)‚ and some lifestyle changes she started to believe that it was possible to be happy with your body even if it happens to be fat (Worley 492). In August 2000 Worley attended the National
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Accepting Fat In the article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance‚” author Mary Ray Worley advocates that happiness can be found regardless of weight. Worley claims that it is possible to be happy with one’s body even if it they are overweight. In her article‚ Worley discusses how she attended the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance annual convention. She describes how overweight people at the convention began to feel comfortable with their size. According to Worley‚ the convention
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article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance‚” Mary Ray Worley‚ also a member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA)‚ talks about being accepted in America as a fat person; she tells us her personal experiences at the NAAFA Convention‚ her points of view of being a fat person in American‚ and even gives us information from doctors and researchers about weight loss. Worley talks about how America sees fat people and how they are just totally against being fat; she even
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Mary Worley in her article “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance‚” argues that it is acceptable for fat people to be comfortable in and happy with their bodies (492-496). Worley attended a NAAFA convention and was given a culture shock (492). When she arrived Worley saw a pool party where the oversized people were all in beautiful bathing suits and comfortable‚ also as she wandered through the convention she saw vendors selling an array of plus-sized clothing‚ clothing that was so gorgeous
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A Critique of “Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance” By Mary Ray Worley Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat Acceptance‚ written by Mary Ray Worley‚ is an article about the way she feels about body fat (492). Mary Worley’s take on fat changed when she went to the convention of the National Association to Advanced Fat Acceptance (492). The author goes on to talk about how fat people should not be ashamed of their bodies and that there are no real medical reasons why they need to lose the weight
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Fat and Happy: From Two PerspectivesThe increasing amount of obese individuals leaves society with a number of different viewpoints towards obesity. Obese people attempt to gain acceptance in society but they must first accept themselves. Hillel Schwartz conveys that dieting and trying to lose excess weight is a negative approach towards acceptance in his article Fat and Happy?. Schwartzs uses this to argue that a fat utopia is the perfect society (Schwartz 384). In Fat and Happy: In Defense of Fat
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Savannah Masters Mrs. Williamson W131 23 September‚ 2014 Fat and Happy? Critique In the article “Fat and Happy?”‚ Hillel Schwartz questions why society views fat people as pathetic and unacceptable. He argues that if it were not for “fellow citizens” (179) mocking and scorning them for being fat‚ they would be perfectly content with themselves. As well as stating that many people discriminate toward fat people‚ Schwartz also points out that physicians are giving facts about obesity that are
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because people have different genetics and metabolisms‚ it might not be as easy for some as it is for others‚ but the laws of physics demand that if you input less energy then you output‚ your body will have to make up for it with stored energy (ie: fat). This problem that is plaguing America is not an easy problem to solve and putting the fork down can be very hard for some people. Despite the abundance of scientific evidence‚ there are the people who refuse to accept the facts that their obesity
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Satisfied‚ observes in the short essay “Fat and Happy?” that in the United States‚ “a fat person’s prior identification is with fatness; as a status‚ fatness comes before religion‚ race‚ sexual preference‚ income‚ gender. Only in a society so content with doing away with fatness could it become such a distinct and negative stigma” (par. 10). Schwartz’s comment gives a brief glimpse into what could be described as the fat society; a never ending series of fat discrimination that is all in all about
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In Fat and Happy?‚ Hillel Schwartz is examining the arguments over obesity and the effectiveness of its treatments. Schwartz mortifyingly claims in his article‚ that a fat society would be a preferable culture to live in. He uses biased arguments and unsupported information to back his views against the overweight society. He does state some information that is defended by evidence but much of his statements require further confirmation. Schwartz sways his readers opinions over the causes of obesity
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