Conservatives come in all shapes and sizes, but they tend to acknowledge health and moderation as worthy goals, while politically correct radicals in recent years have peddled “body positivity” and “fat pride.” The “fat acceptance movement,” like so many other radical identity campaigns, began during the late 1960s. Every polite person eschews mocking the appearance of others or belittling them for their physical deficiencies. But the “fat acceptance movement” went further, affirming the positive good of unhealthy habits and even encouraging them. In 1967, five hundred fat fetishists gathered in Central Park to rally for gluttony. … The fat-tivists sought far more than courtesy; they demanded the inversion of standards of beauty and behavior.
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, by Michael Knowles, p 156