Wall-E the Movie is picketed by 'size' activists

You might have difficulty slipping in to the cinema to watch a US box-office hit when it opens here. The animation Wall-E - a gentle ecological satire featuring a robot who cleans up the planet after wasteful humans - is being picketed in the US by 'size' activists.19-07-2008

Groups such as the Fat Acceptance Movement are angry at the comic mileage the movie gains at the expense of the overweight. And the great advantage fat activists have when looking to make efficient use of their resources is that it doesn't take too many to form an effective picket line.
Fat activism is growing in the US and expanding here. Its principal aim is semantic.
Fatima Parker, UK spokesman for the International Size Acceptance Association, says "obese" and "overweight" are morally loaded terms.
She would rather celebrate "fat", ridding the word of its pejorative undertow.
"Derogatory language and stereotypes about fat people will only make them eat more," suggests Ms Parker.

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