vesta, I agree with your last statement about diversity. I think many misunderstand what it means to accept diversity within a movement — they feel like it means they have to agree with everything everyone else in the movement is saying, and that to say, allow someone who is anti-fat-hate yet is currently dieting into the movement means they have to believe in diets or dieters. Not so. And one could link arms with a dieter against fat hate, and write on her blog how she believes diets are tools of oppression, *without cognitive dissonance*.

The minute that same dieter starts to imply since she diets others should diet, of course, is the minute you can choose to unlink that arm. But it is entirely possible there are dieters out there who are against fat hate and would make valuable additions to the movement. And yes, it makes me uneasy, since I don’t personally want to rubberstamp any cosmetic diet, ever. But I realize I’m *not* doing that by teaming up with someone who is against fat hate yet happens to be a dieter, and I get over it, yanno?

I think these kinds of growing pains are just that: growing pains. It indicates the movement is becoming larger, more expansive. I think this is a problem common to many movements as it constantly seeks to redefine the boundaries drawn by its members.