The body positive movement is really throwing their weight around with how the COVID pandemic treats them right now.
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I mean, it’s a very sensitive issue, and I don’t fully disagree with the OP. Is severe obesity bad for your health (which is even worse during a pandemic)? Yes, of course. Is it a bad thing to subtly and POLITELY encourage obese people to live healthier? No, not IMO. Are you “fatphobic” for having the opinions I just voiced? I sure hope not! But all that still doesn’t mean you have the right to call chubby people “landwhales” to their face… Especially when their obesity is more genetic than a choice.
Anyway, if you want my opinions, the “body positive movement” cuts both ways. It tries to help people who’se bodies are outside the norm, but in the process I’m afraid it also enables and encourages unhealthy lifestyles.
@Timjer #109256
Well said. Specially when you do have actual nutjobs screaming “die, veggie scum!” to the camera as the faces of the movement. People whose views are no less toxic than the shame using bullies and asshats. In the interest of not being misquoted on this myself, I specifically mean the popular(honestly I hope I’m wrong on this one and it’s just overexposure to internet weirdos) body positivity folks worldview about people who keep themselves on diets and generally put effort and sacrifice to stay the shape they want to be are supposedly innately broken by the toxic body norms and standards of the mainstream. Said view takes away agency from people like me and puts me in an indefensible position of a a priori declared madwoman, no matter what I say or do unless I start pounding up like crazy.
I’ve never used BMI as a whip in my life(it’s a crappy baseline standard anyway), I’ve never bullied a person or shamed them on their weight basis and in fact for a long time in my life fought weight issues myself. My book says long as you are comfy with you and nobody else suffers through it, go for it but that includes both the body positivity folks AND people who consciously want to keep their shape lean and thin because that is how they innately picture themselves. As long, as you do not try to strip me of my agency and don’t scream in a doc’s face for a simple medical advice, we’re always good and I do not tolerate bullying in principle.
The body positive movement isn't about "making" yourself overweight. It's about the fact that some people are fat, and they still deserve the same amount of respect and freedom in life as anyone else. If you can be skinny and want to be skinny, good on you, but that doesn't make you a better human than a person who happens to weigh 150 kg.
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