The fat acceptance movement (also known as the size acceptance, fat liberation, fat activism, or fat power movement) is an effort to change societal attitudes towards fat people.
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“Marty: I’m just a fat little man. A fat ugly man.
Mrs. Pilletti: You’re not ugly.
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—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)
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