''Fattitude'' is a documentary film by Lindsey Averill and Viridiana Lieberman. The movie is about fat discrimination and its main objective is to make the general public more aware of the prejudice that fat people experience. The movie propagates the

fat acceptance movement The fat acceptance movement, also known as fat pride, fat empowerment, and fat activism, is a social movement which seeks to eliminate the social stigma of fatness from social attitudes by pointing out the social obstacles which are faced by ...

—a social movement that seeks to change anti-fat bias in social attitudes. The film was financed by running a successful

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campaign at the website

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in which 1,073 backers pledged $44,140 to help bring this project to life. The documentary informs people about what the filmmakers call fat shaming and fat hatred. The documentary also hopes to inspire people to speak out about the prejudice they face or the mistreatment of others.

Controversy

After start the Kickstarter campaign, Averill and Lieberman became the target of heavy trolling and harassment from anonymous users on 4chan and other web forums, and received rape and death threats. People ordered pizzas delivered to Averill's home, and they were forced to change their phone numbers due to the number of hateful calls.

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