Yes, you heard it right.The city of Philadelphia will be hosting FatCon in late October this year. It's being hailed as the first fat-focused convention in the state, and perhaps even the country, curated entirely by fat people for fat people.
From Headline USA:
With overweight celebrities, influencers and activists pushing “body positivity” as part of a new wave in wokeism, at least one similar event is scheduled for Seattle, another far-left enclave, in January 2024.
The Philly event’s “judgment-free” weekend features panel discussions, fitness-classes (including twerk-lesque) that are meant to be “fat-friendly,” a Halloween costume party and a marketplace with lots of vendors.
A plus-size clothing swap is also part of the festivities.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the trio who organized the event “want you to know there are a ton of fat people in Philly who are perfectly fine with who they are.”
One of the organizers told the Inquirer that the conference is meant, in part, to assist people in making their way through “this fatphobic world and society in a different way.”
The phrase body positivity “has become bogged down with relating to body image,” explained Adrienne Ray, an event co-organizer and proprietor of the shop Curve Conscious.
“What people in larger bodies need is to step away from constantly talking about body image, because that can be very triggering for folks who have disabilities, chronic illness, have been dieting on and off all their lives and developed eating disorders because of it,” she added.
While, yes, being overweight is caused by many other issues besides overeating, that is no reason to completely throw your health out of the window and simply resign yourself to being unhealthy for the rest of your life.
There are plenty of other solutions out there, besides dieting, to help those who struggle with their weight, and it's worth mentioning that there's no other country besides the U.S. that boasts obesity numbers like we do.
Perhaps, instead of these folks holding a convention to celebrate their disease, they could take those efforts directly to their local state officials and really start questioning the food system in this country.
