Lara Frater's Blog, page 33

Petition is back, more about United and trolls.

My Petition is back! No explanation for why it was gone. On Friday, I will close the petition, edit it for trolls and send it to United.

Until then please CONTACT United first then sign the petition.


United Airlines


PO Box 66100

Chicago, IL 60666


Tel: (877) 228-1327 (toll-free) or (847) 700-6796


Fax: (877) 406-1059 (toll-free) or (847) 700-2214


customer.relations@united.com

Be sure to
also sign this petition too.

There is
also a site out run by a victim of United Airlin

Hullaballoo in 3 parts

Part 1 The Petition, supporters, dissenters, idiots.

Let's start with my petition.  Before the petition was removed, we were approaching 800 legitimate signatures and that was in 4 days.   I thank you so much for all the people who signed.  Now I am asking you to sign again here.  This is also very important.  PLEASE COMPLAIN DIRECTLY TO UNITED AS WELL.

Contact United Airlines at
Tel: (877) 228-1327
customer.relations@united.com

For those who have been asking what happen to the petition.  On Wedn

New Petition

I am making a rare non-Monday post.  Due to circumstances beyond my control, my petition was removed.  (It could be hackers and/or petitiononline's incompetence.)

I am asking people who signed before to sign another person's petition against United.   We should always stand up to bullies.

An Open Letter to United Airlines.

My name is Lara Frater and I am an occasional flier.  I am very disappointed to hear about United's discriminatory policy against fat people.  I am a fat person who is tired of being blamed for airline woes.  You should also know that I can fit into a coach seat, so this policy doesn't affect me.  However I am writing this as a plead to not treat fat people as second class travelers.

I am happy to take my business to Jet Blue, Delta or US Airways, which at this time do not charge for extra seats.

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There are studies that prove obesity causes diabetes, cancer, heart disease and sleep apnea.  These studies are often picked up by the media and are never questioned.

There are also studies out there that prove obesity is only a correlation or a symptom of these diseases and that being fat doesn't automatically mean poor health.  These studies rarely picked up by the media and always questioned.

Then there are liars:

"A former Harvard researcher falsifie

I'm a human being, go figure.

Ranting about clothing is one of my favorite thing, although I don't think our lack of choices and styles is that big compared being denied health care and jobs.

But today I rant about clothes.  We are treated like dirt in most stores, even in freaking knitting stores!

But the rant isn't bad, because today I am not talking about lame stores who don't care about us.  I'm talking about the Fat Girl's Flea Market which was on Saturday.  An annual event run by the NOLOSE.   

I was sick this week, had

FatLand

Just to remind people in the NYC metro area to come to the Fat Girl's Flea Market. I will be there selling my book from about 1pm until I sell out, the event ends or I collapse from exhaustion.  But don't come for me.  Come for the fabulous clothes and the amazing atmosphere.

So I finished FatLand, a novel by Frannie Zellman, put out by Pearlsong press (not to be confused by the fat hating book by the same name).  In FatLand, it is about 30 years in the future and laws regulate food and fat peop

Who is right? Who is wrong? Who cares.

You think that maybe the obesity naysayers would have calm down by now.  After all three major studies (including two by the CDC) have proved overweight people live the longest and that even being in the obesity range doesn't cut your lifespan that much or that doctors don't know what causes you be fat, it isn't just about eating and moving.

Or that
scientist have proved that diets consist of reducing caloric
intake. It doesn't matter if you cut the
carbs, the fats or the protein, short-term wei

Another edition of the good, the bad and the ugly.

The Good.

The Fat Girl's Flea Market returns! Saturday April 4th. Donate your clothes and your time!   And be sure to actually come.  This is the best shopping experience you will ever have.

Starting on March 29th, HBO presents the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency based on popular series by Alexander McCall Smith. Beautiful Jill Scott plays Mma
Ramotswe who is the only female detective in all of Botswanna.  She is also fat, so it was nice to see a fat actress in the role instead of a fat suit.

Joh

HAES should be a way of life.

I'm fat.  Being fat
doesn't automatically mean you are unhealthy, nor does it mean you must eat
well and exercise or you'll die.  To me
it feels as if fat people are often pressured to "eat right and exercise” just
to prove they are as healthy as the thin people who don't. 

Okay, but let's say you want to eat better and move around
more or you’re a chronic dieter, who wants to eat normally and avoid old
dieting habits.  Good luck finding a book
or a program that doesn't mention weight lo