I was just on the NAAFA website: the mother lode of fatlogic. Their last annual convention was in July 2013 and their is no announcement of the next one. The site seems moribund. Perhaps the tide has turned and FA is dying. We can all hope.
Posted May 17, 2014, 3:21 PM UTC
I spend time on a website called Dimensions, which is a site that celebrates all things obesity-related. (OK, I know that's nuts, but it's like rubbernecking a gory car accident.) From what I've heard about NAAFA, there's been a lot of politics and infighting going on that has negatively affected the membership. And for some reason the younger fatties don't seem to have as much interest in it.
You guys should really check out the Dimensions forum sometime. All kinds of craziness and more fatlogic than you can shake a stick at. Naturally all comments are heavily moderated and anyone who voices an opinion contrary to the views of the hamplanets are immediately banned.
OMG: the delusions, the complete ignorance, the glorification and all the dead and dying members. Truly the sickest thing I have ever seen on the web. The sub on the fattest humans, mostly dead and younger than me. I now believe that obesity is a disease, a mental disease.
It would be interesting to see documentation on the health effects of embracing fat acceptance, regarding mortality. Maybe their membership is constantly dying.
What will we do for Karma??
I think we'll have plenty of other sources. Ragen's still blogging.
I don't know why she bothers though... every "new" post is literally just a rewording of an older post. If you google some portions of her blog you'll find she's used the exact same phrasing and copy pasted her blogs dozens of times and uploaded them as "new"
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Do I need to bring out the ban hammer? Stop giving away my secrets shitlord.
Karma conspiracy!
That's apparently a labor saving device, but you're right. She only has a few points to make, so she has to repeat herself.
Maybe she saves original content for paid subscribers.
Not necessarily. If they've decided to switch to a semi-annual convention, or switch the convention date to later in 2014, it may not have been announced yet. Or maybe they're really disorganized.
Yeah but to still have the info from last year's convention on the front page? Maybe just immobility... goes with the territory you know.
Perhaps HAES has done a better job of recruiting the NAAFA's former member. Wasn't the NAAFA fairly radical in its time?
Is the organization dying? Or do you mean the people who run it?
I think they just renamed it Disney World and all meet there.
I thought this was going to be a list of obituaries of NAAFA officials.
Looking at the web site makes me think of a failed diet.
Is it just me, or is anyone else bothered that their website is essentially backwards? I've never seen a home button all the way to the right before.
I think people are not interested in working within a group anymore. They'd rather have solo blogs where they don't have to share any of the praise from their sycophantic followers.
Or their food.
They probably find convention logistics too difficult. So many scooters, so many planets, so few wide-load elevators.
Though it feels to me like with the internet, NAAFA has maybe lost some of its power. There are many fat activists on the internet now, and they don't always agree with each other. I mean NAAFA has been around since the 60s? They might not be relevant anymore.
I can't imagine the planes flying in. How do you fit three FAers into seats designed for three normal people?
The C-130 "Fat Albert"
Why would you drop a perfectly good tank from 40 feet onto the ground? Those things don't grow on trees.
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