Editing Fat acceptance movement (section)

==Division within the movement==
The fat acceptance movement has been divided in its response to proposed legislation defining morbidly obese people as disabled. [[NAAFA]] board member Peggy Howell says: "There's a lot of conflict in the size acceptance community over this. I don't consider myself disabled, and some people don't like 'fat' being considered a disability."<ref>{{cite news |last=Wilkie |first=Christina |title=Obesity Discrimination on the Job Provokes Dispute Over Best Remedy |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/04/obesity-discrimination_n_1939385.html |newspaper=Huffing ton Post |year=2012}}</ref> An example of the positive perspective of obesity being classified as a disability in wider society is noted by a person interviewed by Amy Erdman in her book Fat Shame: "[Deborah Harper] makes a point to tell me how impressed she is with the way many do make quiet and polite accommodations for her."<ref>{{cite book |last=Erdman Farrell |first=Amy |title=Fat Shame:!Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture |year=2011 |publisher=NYU Press |isbn=978-0814727683 |page=[https://archive.org/details/fatshame_farr_2011_000_10568284/page/n174 165] |url=https://archive.org/details/fatshame_farr_2011_000_10568284 |url-access=registration |quote=Men fat acceptance.}}</ref> Women are particularly active within the fat acceptance movement and membership of fat acceptance organizations is dominated by middle-class women in the heaviest 1–2% of the population.<ref>{{cite book |last=Saguy |first=Abigail |title=What's Wrong with Fat? |year=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0199857081 |page=63 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7_kVC1XP05MC&q=fat+acceptance+men}}</ref> Members have criticized the lack of representation in the movement from men, people of color, and people of lower socioeconomic status.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.xojane.com/issues/why-im-over-the-size-acceptance-movement-or-hey-sa-what-have-you-done-for-me-lately |title=Why I'm Over The Size Acceptance Movement or Hey, SA, What Have You Done For Me Lately? |last=Webb |first=Cary |date=4 January 2014 |website=XOJane.com |publisher=XOJANE |access-date=4 May 2016}}</ref>