Greta Christina

Greta Christina is a popular atheist, feminist blogger at Freethoughtblogs. In addition, she is a atheist speaker and author. She is in a same-sex marriage with a woman named Ingrid.

For years, Greta Christina was overweight and very much agreed with the "fat acceptance" movement and largely dismissed the abundant medical science data indicating the negative health effects of being overweight. Her "fat acceptance" beliefs were altered though when she had a serious knee problem which prompted her to lose her excess weight.

Within the feminist movement there a branch of feminism called fat feminism. The lesbian population in the Western World has a significantly higher rate of obesity (see: Lesbianism and obesity). For more information please see: Atheists and the fat acceptance movement and Atheism and obesity

Today, Christina has a more limited agreement with the fat acceptance movement, but still considers herself apart of it.

Greta Christina wrote in 2010:

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And while I have huge disagreements with the fat acceptance movement -- especially with its more extreme denialist edges -- I still think many of its ideas are important, and perceptive, and entirely fair. I have serious disagreements with FA, but I am still very much shaped by it, and I would like to think of myself as an ally of the movement, and even as a member of it. It's just that they don't feel the same way about me. Or about other fat people who choose to lose weight.

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