Pepsi owns Quaker Oats

Just about everyday I get an offer from online diet programs or supplements to become an affiliate on www.myfatspouse.com.

Getting with the right affiliate pays much better than text ads. But having an affiliate places this site in the position of being an advocate of certain product(s). None of the affiliate offers I have received are from companies that I agree that strongly with.

I know that unsavory text ads show up, but somehow becoming an affiliate with them feels like a stamp of approval for their products where as text ads don’t. Albeit text ads pay a paltry amount.

I certainly wouldn’t accept any kind of direct compensation from a fast food company or a processed food giant, like Pepsi!

Huh…Pepsi? What about Pepsi?

Ask Mopie of the www.bfdblog.com. She recently accepted an expense paid trip to Chicago for special bloggers, promoted by Quaker Oats.

Big Oat Deal

You see a few years ago Quaker Oats was purchased and is owned by Pepsico. Not because Pepsi digs oats. Quaker Oats happened to manufacture Gatorade.

Coca Cola has spent billions over the years trying to compete with Gatorade with their product “Poweraid”, with pitiful success. Pepsi decided that an easier route would be just to buy Quaker Oats instead. I can’t imagine Pepsi would own an oatmeal company any other way.

I don’t have to tell you that Pepsico is a HUGE food company that has made a fortune off of High Fructose Corn Syrup sweetened water. Oh yes and through Frito Lay they make all you favorite Chips like Cheetos, Doritos, and Lays, just to name a few.

But the fun doesn’t end there. Pepsi founded and spun off YUM foods, which owns Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Long John Silvers. They still have a relationship with these places. Try getting a Coke product at one of these joints.

So much for the big bad diet industry conspiracy. For the record the “diet industry” that FA complains about, reaped 35 billion dollars in sales in 2005. While Pepsico made nearly 33 billion, the same year.

Talk about a big fat hypocrite!

We’ve had a long running thread over at www.myfatspouse.com which includes the attachments of “motivational” posters, ridiculing various FA tenets.  They vary from the profound, to the truly tasteless.  I thought I would post a few here that are relevant.

Strawmen Do Exist

Kitty Workout

Hate Speech

McDonalds Setpoint

Booga Booga

Freak of Nature

Thermodynamics

Real Women

Butt Wand

Check This Thread at www.myfatspouse.com

If you enjoyed these you can find more  like this at www.myfatspouse.com.

Fat Acceptance fractures along political lines

How “Fat Acceptance” plays second fiddle in Kate Harding & friends agenda!

Adherents to Fat Acceptance may have not voted for her, but Kate Harding is undoubtedly the undeniable leader of the movement.  It is questionable if FA has any influence outside of the internet.  But in the Fatosphere, Kate Harding’s blog has become the voice of record for Size Acceptance.   By Techorati anointment, her highness Queen Kate,  has demonstrated that all FA adherents should bow down to her monarchy.  She is a potentate who is less than benevolent, and certainly is not open minded.

Kate Harding accepts all the hard core tenants of Fat Acceptance in fascist fashion.

• No diet talk allowed
• Weight loss surgery is an abomination
• Fat has nothing to do with disease
• The diet industry is behind “obesity epidemic” hype
• Doctors are biased against fat patients
• The media perpetuates myths against fat people
• Anorexia and Bulimia are the only real eating disorders
• All diets fail
• Eating healthy and exercising rarely result in weight loss

To Kate Harding, and those who parrot her ideas, these aren’t just beliefs, they are absolute religious axioms which SHALL NOT be disagreed with.  Even the slightest difference in opinion or even the being perceived as being in disagreement, results in an IMMEDIATE thrashing!  This eventually ends with the commenter being labeled as a “Troll”, then extradited from the Kate Harding’s presence.  Of course it is her blog, and it is as popular as ever.  Her arrogance and self importance has not run many away.  Kate Harding’s message and behavior still have a lot of appeal.

Her blog’s online popularity rankings remain steady (not growing), while other Fat Acceptance blogs are slipping off into obscurity, as far as readership goes. Rachael’s “F-word” seems to be the only exception to this trend.

Kate is a FA advocate second and a liberal feminist first

Fat Acceptance isn’t where Kate’s blogging career began.  Her original blogging was along the feminist and left wing political front.  Kate is a college campus feminist, and a progressive/left winger.  This isn’t a personal criticism of her politics.  But, she whole heartedly inserts these beliefs into her FA blog in addition to her college campus speech codes.  This dictatorial behavior has alienated those who would otherwise agree with her.  Kate Harding is a Liberal and a Feminist FIRST before being a Fat Acceptance advocate.  She has no compunction about alienating people for disagreeing with her politics or even violating her narrow use of PC language.

A small group of bloggers, who are a bit more open minded, have broken away from Kate Harding’s fold, and have been blogging on a slightly independent angle.  A blogger named Big Liberty has begun an independent feed called “The Fat Liberation Feed”, which is a departure from the traditional “Notes from the Fatosphere Feed” which is loyal to Harding type FA bloggers.  A quick note: RSS feeds are the way those topics from other similar blogs are displayed on the side columns of websites and blogs like this one. Big Liberty’s main difference with Kate seems to be a political one.

Libertarian bloggers chose to disagree with Kate Harding

Big Liberty is a Libertarian.  Libertarians think that the government doesn’t have the right to meddle in people’s personal business, and the government should be as small as possible.   This is a more intellectually honest stance for a Fat Acceptance blogger, so long as they don’t desire assistance government paid medical help and anti fat discrimination laws.

It remains to be seen if the “Fat Liberation” sect will start to peck away at Kate Harding’s following.  Right now they occupy the remote fringe both in the number of blogs and readership.  Certainly however there seems to be some resentment by some FA bloggers who are tired of being marginalized by someone who pretends to speak for all of Fat Acceptance.

Additionally Liberals in America are not exactly leaping at the chance to bring FA into its’ big tent.  Many progressives view obesity as a challenge to implementing the goal of socialized medicine; while politically active greens view obesity as a manifestation of the over consumption that threatens the earth’s environment.

Admittedly, I read Kate’s blog on occasion and see the comments sections as very telling lately.  I’ve noticed a distinct up tick in the thought policing and the language of the comments.  Is the Shapely Prose really experiencing an up tick in the number of “trolls” or is it simply becoming more and more close minded?

The “fat liberation” blogs aren’t exactly free speech zones either but at least they do allow a disagreeing thought now and without obligatory censorship.  Your not goint to convince anyone of your point but as long as you respectful they will at least listen, for a little while.

For some time we here at unfatblog, and www.myfatspouse.com have made the contention that it is not realistic to FORCE people to find someone attractive, even through the force of political correctness.

I believe that WE are the origin of this argument.

Fat Acceptance blogs have many authors, who are masters in the art of rhetoric, although science seems to elude them. Language is their playground. This makes sense, considering how many are academics in the liberal arts fields.

It was just a matter of time until same people that believe that eating what ever the heck you want, and that fat has nothing to do with health, would make yet another preposterous assertion that humans can FORCE themselves to find different types of people attractive.

“My Wife Isn’t Sexy Anymore” and What You Can Do About It

I found the included guide to “finding your fat spouse attractive” particularly interesting.

“2) Look at pictures of people who look like that person. If you can find them, nudes are good. (We’re a resource.) Look a lot. If the pictures bother you in some way, turn away and then turn back and keep looking. If you are a porn reader or watcher, porn is good here.”

Ok…any takers here??

Kate Harding is more than willing to buy into this concept as well. After all fat acceptance is not stranger to contradiction.

Do I have to find FAT people attractive?

What is most interesting is that Fat Acceptance adamantly denies that a human can lose weight through force of will.

They have even gone so far as to deny that the force of willpower even exists!

Attack on Willpower Thread

But, they are perfectly willing to tell us that our sexual aversion to obesity is simply a choice????

According to an Sarcastic Antifat Acceptance Blogger

Anorexia: A very common condition that results in the deaths of MILLIONS of women each year. The primary cause is skinny models, and Hollywood waifs.

Bing Eating: A term that is used to describe a non existent condition.

Comment Section: A section of a blog where adherents post loud praise for the fat acceptance blog author’s post .

Dan Savage: The most evil man alive!

Diet: An extreme form of calorie restriction that occasionally results in temporary weight loss. This activity poses a high risk or causing anorexia.

Diet Industry: An evil Cabal of Jews, Trilaterialists, and late night infomercial advertisers who are attempting to dominate the world through manipulating health studies to encourage the sale of hoodia, and frozen meal entrees.

Douchehound: An intellectual term that Kate Harding uses to describe those who she particularly disagrees with.

Exercise: Strenuous physical activity, often engaged in by fat acceptance types, for example: playing with Cats. However, exercise has not been shown to result in weight loss. In fact many Fat Acceptance adherents exercised 2 hours a day with no results while eating nothing but lettuce, and found that no weight loss occurred.

Fashion Industry: A conspiratorial organization that is hell bent on forcing women of size to wear frumpy clothing, and to promote anorexia by utilizing uber-skinny models.

Fat and Fit: A scientific fact proven by the next to last place finishes by “fat girl on a bike” in many competitive triathlons.

Fat Hate Bingo: A method in which valid arguments are answered by shouting “Bingo” in a juvenile fashion.

Genetic Set point: If one eats intuitively (i.e. what ever the heck you want), your body will eventually reach its’ genetic weight set point. Note: sometimes a genetic set point will shift; typically upward do not be alarmed.

Intuitive Eating: Eat whatever the hell you want!

Kate Harding: A feminist prophet who offers obscenities of wisdom to those who willing to ignore science and accept her angry faith.

Lifestyle Change: See Diet. There is no known difference.

Myfatspouse.com: The most evil web site in the entire universe. It is highly inadvisable to link to www.myfatspouse.com.

Obesity Epidemic: An over exaggerated media catch phrase. Simply saying “booga, booga” makes it go away.

Real Women: Overweight women who are sexier than skinnier women. This should be an obvious fact when discussing this subject on a fat acceptance blog. Remember, that all women are real women when discussing the subject with non fat acceptance types.

Second (2^nd) Law of Thermodynamics (calories out must equal calories in): Physics is sexist!

Straw Men: A valid argument against fat acceptance.

Troll: Someone who posts a comment on a fat acceptance blog who does not match the author’s ideology EXACTLY.

The Fat Acceptance movement has two faces. The public face it shows to open audiences when at a TV interview or interacting with the world outside of the fat o sphere, and then there is the true face, that we only see on size acceptance blogs, especially in the comments sections. From what I can tell, this isn’t done purposely or consciously. When Fat Acceptance steps out on the public forum it sounds completely reasonable and justified. However when a Fat Blogger makes it back home to her blog, she turns into something quite different.

FA’s public message is one of “acceptance” of fat people. “Acceptance,” by FA’s definition means discouraging name calling, and stopping fatty bashing. More importantly they want to challenge prejudices against fat people, like the presumption that the obese are gluttonous and lazy. The public face of fat acceptance is hard to disagree with. The “Fat but Fit” message is stretching it, but with the majority of Americans sporting some extra lard it isn’t hard to sell.

Back home on their HEAVILY censored blogs and forums, the true face of fat acceptance comes out. Thinly guised hatred toward thin people seeps out around the edges. Acceptance of fatness turns into a glorification of obesity. There is a lot of anger in the Fat o Sphere. One can only be accepted there if they are fat and want to stay fat. All this is sprinkled with healthy doses of cherry picked studies, and paranoid delusions of persecution, including diet industry conspiracies.

The “public” face of fat o sphere, accepts that women of every size should be comfortable with their body. A Real Woman is any woman that is comfortable in her own skin no matter what her size. But, back on the blogs we see an emphasis of the sexiness of fat women. A Real Woman means a fat woman. In the comments of my “What is a Real Woman” post, on this blog, the FA cult clamored to clarify that a Real Woman didn’t necessarily have to be a Fat Women. However references to fat = real women are found ALL OVER the fat o sphere. Denying this amounts to outright lying.

When there is a doctor present during a TV interview Fat Acceptance bloggers go out of their way not to contradict the medical professionals. Back at their WordPress base camps they constantly tell adherents not to accept obesity as a cause illness, from their physician. If a doctor insists that their health problems are a result of being too fat, the FA sisterhood tells them that they should find a different doctor.

Out in the open, HAES advocates make sure to clarify that they aren’t jealous of thin people and have no resentment toward the skinny folk. They consistently maintain this statement both in public and on their blogs. This doesn’t stop Fat Bloggers trying explaining the existence of unfat people as purely the result of lucky genetics, or an eating disorder.

The “We don’t hate skinny people” statement really seems like window dressing. Comments are tinged with resentment. If you read FA blogs long enough, you will find a lot of underhanded deriding of people who are fit and beautiful, such as describing thin people’s faces as having a “…drawn, gaunt, skull-faced look” … so much for Acceptance.

I could continue this rant with example after example. With the existence of literally thousands of blogs, how could the mainstream media be missing this? Maybe the real question is how long it will be until the mainstream media discovers this? I’m not sure how long it will take, but I’m doing my part!

Everyone has heard about the obesity gene. The old hotness was the FTO gene. Now the new hotness, thanks to a collaboration between 77 institutions from the UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy, Finland and Sweden, has discovered the MC4R gene.

New DNA Variants Found That Can Help To Pile On The Pounds

According to this article,

The variants map close to a gene called MC4R: mutations in this gene are the most common genetic cause of severe familial obesity.

So, how much weight on average does this gene “pack” on you? Oh…about 3.3 pounds , but when combined with the “old” obesity gene we are talking a whopping 8.5 pounds. Oh my! I never realized that the folks in the electric carts at Wal-Mart were only 8.5 lbs overweight!

Fat Acceptance tells us that picking two skinny parents is the secret to being thin. Nice try, but the nitty gritty details of fat gene data, just don’t bear this out. When examined closely genetics aren’t the scapegoat that Size Acceptance advocates would like them to be. We inherit a lot more than genetics from our parents, like eating habits, cooking styles and sedentary lifestyles.

The obesity epidemic is real. Kate Harding likes to type “booga booga” after the phrase, she may think this is cute, but it doesn’t make the massive number of people afflicted with diabetes go away.

Obesity has skyrocketed in the last 25 years. The genetics of a population don’t change in that short of a time frame. Examine this time lapse map and you can not possibly conclude that people’s inherited metabolisms are causing this.

CNN’s Time Lapse US Obesity Map

It is high time that people starting hearing the truth about just how little net effect genetics play in the role of obesity. We can’t let the “Health at Any Size” crowd preach their genetic defeatism message without some factual challenges. That is exactly what I am going to do, right here on this blog!

Another great article, deflating the Fat Gene Myth has been republished over at www.myfatspouse.com with permission from Micheal Fumento.

Don’t Buy The “FAT” Gene Myth

When I speak about Fat Acceptance I can not pretend that I am speaking for each and every person who takes “Health At Every Size” to heart. I am sure there are exceptions. Discussions about Fat Acceptance have to be done in general terms. My generalizations come from my years of reading fat acceptance blogs, and the experiences of others who had the misfortune of dealing with this angry internet mob. Anyone who has had an intellectual “run in” with fat bloggers will tell you that they absolutely positively can not tolerate differing opinions.

On their own turf, the FA blogs, the thought police are always on patrol, in a fashion that Stalin would be proud of. It begins with name calling and public humiliation. Kate Harding is an expert at creating new derivatives of foul words to insult those that would dare to disagree with her. Her favorites seem to be “Fucktard” and “douchehound“. Wow, how creative, I see she is putting her graduate degree to good use. After the public verbal thrashing she bans them. Fat bloggers have no use for someone that might have an independent thought once in a while. The comment sections are for loud “AMENS” only. Please look at Kate Harding’s rules for comments, this has to be the most Byzantine set of rules for blog comments EVER!

Another intellectual suppression tactic is the lack of connecting links to sites and sources that they disagree with. Here is an example in a fat blog post, where the lack of a links is strangely obvious. I’m not sure if they are worried that the links will attract trolls, aka people who have independent ideas, or that they are worried, like most cults, that exposure to outside ideas might lure disciples away. Either way this attempt to close off the outside world, by restricting the conversation, by all tests, qualifies as a form of censorship.

Shutting down the open discussion of obesity isn’t limited to the fat acceptance blogs. Whenever the subject comes up on the open internet, a concerted effort to drowned out debate is made. FA devotees become internet bullies whenever they can. Should a web author be bold enough to question their movement on a blog, or a forum it can be guaranteed that post after post will be made implying that the original post is full of hate, and that the author has a “no fat chicks” sticker on his pick up truck bumper. Just read through the comments section on my last post to see what I mean. The pro fat acceptance comments are often longer that my blog post!

When all this fails, out right attempts of censorship ensue. Of course the FA blogs and forums will not claim responsibility for the formal complaints to Web Hosting Services, and Advertisers. But, when I started www.myfatspouse.com two years ago everything was fine until the fat o sphere discovered my site. Since then I have had to deal with a steady stream of complaints to my web hosting service, and my advertisers. In the beginning, I had to do some hard core self defense, but now they just blow them off. Props to Blue Host and Google for understanding that I am not preaching hate. It hasn’t stopped FA fanatics from continuing to try to force me to shut up as this editorial response to an article detailing my site proves.

Even more telling about Fat Acceptance’s views on censorship is their feelings toward Pro-Ana sites. Just recently a contributer from “Shaply Prose” was cheering on a French decision to ban sites that advocate anorexia and bulimia. I suggest you read her entire post. Scary huh? Apparently Fillyjoink doesn’t even think about the fact that she is posting this on a well read blog that advocates obesity. I don’t know what the numbers are in France, but in the United States obesity claims 300,000 lives prematurely according to the CDC, while the figure for Anorexia is in the 200 range, in data given by the World Health Organization. I know I have stated these numbers before, but I’m going to keep repeating them until the disparity of these two numbers starts to sink in!

When Fat Acceptance is unwilling to take on differing opinions, and tries to silence critics, it is a self admission that they know that their arguments and their facts are weak. Pretending as if they are avoiding fatty bashers and trolls only goes so far. Especially when they make special efforts to get the plug pulled on websites they don’t care for. Trite as it sounds censorship is the last refuge of those who haven’t got a leg to stand on. The argument for fat acceptance is more about denial of the facts, than arguing the facts, and they know it.

Since the world found out that Chloe Marshall would be a candidate in the Miss England beauty competition there has been quite a stir. For those of you who don’t know, Chloe is a 17 year old plus sized model who is 5′ 10″ and weighs a 176 lbs. None are prouder and more defensive of her success than the members of the Fat Acceptance crowd. With Miss Marshall’s pictures in the news the Fatosphere has once again begun crowing about the virtues of Real Women.

This Real Woman nomenclature begs a whole host of questions. First what exactly is a Real Woman? Does this make all other women inferior? Finally, if there are Real Women, what is a Real Man? Even though the answers can’t be found spelled out concisely in thousands and thousands of Fat Acceptance Blogs some hints can be found. Reading them, as I dreadfully have to do, some clues can be found in subtle innuendo, and others through intentional omission.

A fat blogger would probably describe a Real Woman as a female that has an appearance more typical of what we see day to day. Since overweight women are the norm in western society, we are told that we should accept the fact that the average woman is overweight. But there is so much more to a what constitutes a Real Woman that is not directly stated by fat acceptance’s talking points.

The Fatosphere wants us to believe that overweight women possess something special that thinner women don’t. They want us to think that somehow fat women are sexier than “stick girls”. After all, chubby girls have curves! Curves, yes!, fat rolls are now defined as Curves. The hour glass figure used to be the definition of curves on a woman, but fat acceptance has succeeded in co opting the language to define the obese profile, complete thunder thighs and a giggly belly, as Curvy.

Who are the females that don’t meet the criteria to be Real Women? Thin women of course. You will never see this directly stated. But, By definition if fat women are Real Women then thin women ARE NOT. Fat Blogs wisely stay away from bashing “skinny bitches”, but sometimes they slip and let out a little squirt of envy venom, especially in the comments. Instead our pro obesity bloggers settle for attacking rail thin “Hollywood” waifs, and photo shopped Cosmo models. This makes for a good substitute punching bag for that skinny girl at work or school who gets all the men slobbering.

We are told that Real Women would be the object of desire for men, if not for the influence of Hollywood and twisted media images. Oddly, our curvy girl advocates become tellingly silent when it comes to the subject of Real Men. If overweight girls are supposed to be the uber sexy vixens in this golden age of obesity, then logically fat men should be a beefcake ideal as well. Right fat acceptance blogs?…(total silence)…come on empowered curvy gals of the fatosphere!…(crickets chirp)?

It is absolutely obvious that these women aren’t really interested in fat men. You would be hard pressed to find a FA blog to mention this subject at all. Some of the queens of fat acceptance will even cart out pictures of their husbands to proudly show how they bagged a skinny dude. One scene (around minute 6) in Joy Nash’s Famous video Fat Rant, shows Joy lamenting over a good looking guy who appears not to be interested in her, possibly because of her weight.

It would be preposterous to think that these women don’t find a well built man attractive, nor should be embarrassed by this fact. What they should be embarrassed by is attempting to shame attractive men into finding them sexy, while their dialog avoids promoting studly fat man.

Sometimes by not saying something your are sending a message. The message?

Fat Acceptance chicks want FIT and good looking men to find them sexier than skinny girls, while at the same time they don’t find fat men attractive. This will get ‘em furious, but I absolutely believe it is true.

Thanks, A101 from forum at myfatspouse, for most of my talking points!