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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch

Fat-acceptance people should probably concentrate on something with broader public acceptance, like wider airline seats: helps you, helps me. I'll march to Birmingham for that one. But the "right" to be free from negative thoughts about your ass? Fatty, please.

i'm hoping this San fran case will catch on. This is just the kind of precedent i need to show people on Politics that being able to form a coherent argument shouldn't be a necessary prerequisite to convince people of my positions.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...7/MN223501.DTL

EXERCISING HER RIGHT TO WORK
Fitness instructor wins weight-bias fight

Jennifer Portnick, a 240-pound San Francisco aerobics instructor rejected by Jazzercise because of her size, has reached an agreement under which the firm will drop its requirement that instructors look fit.

"I'm absolutely thrilled with this outcome," said Portnick, 38, a computer systems training manager who works out six days a week and has sufficient stamina to lead back-to-back aerobics classes.

"I'm lucky to live in San Francisco, where there's a law to protect people like me."

hey A. did you happen to go to this?

The terms of the agreement were announced Monday to great jubilation at a "street circus" at Justin Herman Plaza celebrating the 10th International No Diet Day. The message: Health and fitness are what counts, not size.

The rally featured rotund cheerleaders waving pompons, poetry about poundage and assorted fat activism: "Two-four-six-eight, we do not regurgitate.

Three-five-seven-nine, love your body, it's just fine."