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- Archive-name: fat-acceptance-faq/general
- Posting-Frequency: monthly to *.answers, bi-weekly to
- soc.support.fat-acceptance
- Last-modified: February 22, 1995
- Version: 1.1
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- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for soc.support.fat-acceptance
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- This document contains information relevant to the newsgroup
- soc.support.fat-acceptance. There are four other related FAQs:
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- fat-acceptance-faq/size-acceptance
- information about size-acceptance
- fat-acceptance-faq/resources
- world-wide information about general resources
- for fat people, including books, magazines and organizations
- fat-acceptance-faq/clothing/uk-europe
- information about clothing for large people in the U.K.
- and Europe
- fat-acceptance-faq/clothing/us-canada
- information about clothing for large people in the U.S.
- and Canada
-
- There is some overlap in the topics covered by the FAQs. If you don't
- find what you're looking for here, try the other FAQs.
-
- If you have information you think should be here (either in response
- to an existing question or in response to a new question), send it to
- the maintainers. If you think another question should be addressed
- here, and you do not have the information for it, post the question to
- s.s.f-a and drop a note to the maintainers suggesting that it be in
- the FAQ. Also, please let us know if any of this material is
- incorrect or out-of-date.
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- * Added URL for Netherlands FAQ server.
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- Contents
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- SECTION A: FAQ about soc.support.fat-acceptance
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- A1) What is s.s.f-a's charter?
- A2) How did s.s.f-a start?
- A3) What are the acronyms?
- A4) What are some related newsgroups?
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- SECTION B: Information about this FAQ
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- B1) Posting information
- B2) Availability of the FAQ
- B3) Contributors
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- SECTION A: FAQ about soc.support.fat-acceptance
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- A1) What is s.s.f-a's charter?
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- The newsgroups line for s.s.f-a is:
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- soc.support.fat-acceptance Self-acceptance for fat people. No diet talk.
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- The charter is:
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- soc.support.fat-acceptance provides a supportive forum for the discussion
- of the personal and political goals of fat-acceptance and other topics
- relevent to being fat.
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- Topics appropriate for soc.support.fat-acceptance include:
- - Political activism
- - Events relating to fat-acceptance
- - Resources for fat people (including clothes, mail order catalogs, etc.)
- - Personal anecdotes about being fat
- - Sharing complaints and peeves or triumphs and achievements
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- Topics considered inappropriate for soc.support.fat-acceptance include:
- - Promotion or advocacy of weight loss methods. These may be
- discussed in alt.support.diet or alt.support.obesity.
- - Personal ads. These may be posted to alt.personals.big-folks or
- alt.personals.fat.
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- A2) How did s.s.f-a start?
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- This group developed from alt.support.big-folks. There was a brief
- suggestion, in early '94, that all the alt.support groups might move
- over to misc.support. (Then we'd be in the big seven, and have wider
- distribution and so forth.) At that time, the consensus on a.s.b-f
- was to change the group's name to misc.support.fat-acceptance. It was
- felt that this name would be less confusing and more descriptive. For
- reasons unknown, the move to misc fizzled. So we're still here.
-
- In September '94, Wendy Betts (web@armory.com) began work on an RFD
- for soc.support.fat-acceptance. (The soc.support hierarchy was
- established since the last round of discussions.) A Call For Votes
- was issued on November 14, 1994, and the group passed 163:49. The
- group was newgrouped on December 22, 1994.
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- A3) What do the acronyms mean?
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- BBW Big Beautiful Woman
- BBM Big Beautiful Man
- bear a man who is cuddly, furry, stocky, and/or bearded;
- most often used by and about gay men
- FA Fat Admirer, person who prefers a fat sexual/romantic
- partner
- NAAFA National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
- mid-size refers to people who are in the mid-range.
- For women, this means they wear U.S. dress size
- 16W-26W.
- super-size refers to people who are very large.
- For women, this means they wear U.S. dress size 28W
- and up. This division between mid-size and super-size
- for women seems to arise from the face that most
- retail clothing sizes for women stop at U.S. 26W.
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- A4) What are some related newsgroups?
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- alt.sex.fat is a group for people who want to discuss issues involved
- in sex with fat people. It was formed in early '94 so that a.s.b-f
- could stay more or less G (or PG) rated.
-
- alt.sex.fetish.fa is a group for fat admirers. This group is mostly
- dead. (The word "fetish" in the title rubs many FAs the wrong way,
- does nothing to promote a positive image of FAs, and implies a
- separation between sex and romance that doesn't exist for many FAs.)
- alt.sex.fat has taken over most of the traffic.
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- alt.support.big-folks is another group for discussing size-acceptance
- and issues affecting large people.
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- alt.support.diet is a group for people who want support and discussion
- of dieting and other weight loss methods. Regular posters tend not to
- be very fat. This is a good place to take weight loss questions and
- discussions.
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- alt.support.obesity is a group for people who are 100 pounds (or more)
- overweight and who want support and discussion of dieting and other
- weight loss methods appropriate for very fat people. The group is
- moderated by Mark Mitchum (markm@unm.edu). This is another good
- place to take weight loss questions and discussions.
-
- alt.personals.big-folks and alt.personals.fat are groups for personal
- ads by big folks or looking for big folks. These groups were formed
- in July '94 to get personal ads out of a.s.b-f, to provide an easy way
- for fat people and fat admirers to get in touch with one another, and
- so that fat people would not have to wade through personal ads that
- specify that only slender people should respond.
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- SECTION B: Information about this FAQ
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-
- B1) Posting information
-
- This document is posted monthly to news.answers and alt.answers and
- posted bi-weekly to soc.support.fat-acceptance. Sasha Wood
- (Sasha.Wood@cs.cmu.edu) maintains this FAQ.
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- B2) Availability of the FAQ
-
- All FAQs posted to news.answers are archived at rtfm.mit.edu and its
- mirror sites. You can get any of these FAQs from rtfm.mit.edu via
- anonymous FTP or via the mail archive server. (To get information
- about the mail server, send email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the
- body of the message containing the word "help", without the quotes.)
- FAQs posted to news.answers are also available on the Web from:
-
- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html
-
- This particular FAQ is archived at rtfm.mit.edu and its mirror sites
- under the filenames:
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- /pub/usenet/news.answers/fat-acceptance-faq/general
- /pub/usenet/alt.answers/fat-acceptance-faq/general
- /pub/usenet/soc.support.fat-acceptance/soc.support.fat-acceptance_Frequently_Asked_Questions_(FAQ)
-
- It is available on the Web at:
- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/fat-acceptance-faq/general/faq.html
- http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/fat-acceptance-faq/general.html
-
- The file soc.support.fat-acceptance_Frequently_Asked_Questions_(FAQ)
- contains the last post to soc.support.fat-acceptance which has the
- same subject line as this FAQ. In general, this is the most recent
- copy of the FAQ. Occasionally, however, it is a random post that has
- the same subject line as this FAQ. If this is the case, please look
- in one of the other files.
-
- The files named general and the file available via the WWW, contain
- the last version of the FAQ posted to news.answers. Since this FAQ is
- posted to soc.support.fat-acceptance more often than it is posted to
- news.answers, sometimes the version available via these links is not
- the most recent one.
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- B3) Contributors
-
- These are the people who contribute significant chunks to the FAQ.
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- Sasha Wood <Sasha.Wood@cs.cmu.edu>
- Wendy Betts <web@armory.com>
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- Suggestions for additions/improvements are always welcome.
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