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Commentary: Why the Body Positivity Movement Risks Turning Toxic
Channel News Asia ^ | 19 Sep 2022 | Viren Swami

Posted on 09/18/2022 4:31:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Body positivity content may have a negative impact on viewers because it does little to challenge the underlying idea that people are valued primarily for their appearance, says this psychologist.

You define beauty yourself. You are more than a number on a scale. Love yourself the way you are. Body positive messages like these seem to be everywhere from social media to TV ads.

But while some find the body positivity movement to be uplifting and helpful, others have begun calling the movement “toxic” and suggesting it may be time to move on from this way of thinking.

Body positivity has its roots in radical fat activism that began in the late 1960s. Alongside activism among ethnic minority women, these groups protested against structural biases and discrimination, especially from the fashion and beauty industries that profited from making people and communities feel inadequate.

(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: bodypositivity; health; weight
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1 posted on 09/18/2022 4:31:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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It is so big fat colored women can claim they are "discriminated" against.

Anyone who has seen TV commercials lately sees these gross big fat bronze hippos parading their gigantic booties around for Target, Amazon, Marshall's, etc.

2 posted on 09/18/2022 4:40:03 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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As an observation, black women are severely underrepresented when an interracial couple are portrayed.


3 posted on 09/18/2022 4:43:13 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“ Anyone who has seen TV commercials lately sees these gross big fat bronze hippos parading their gigantic booties around for Target, Amazon, Marshall’s, etc. ”

Old Navy. Yeah, I went there.


4 posted on 09/18/2022 4:45:23 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (DJT24)
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#3: As an observation, black women are severely underrepresented when an interracial couple are portrayed."

LOL. Aint' that the truth! I don't see any big fat black welfare queens paired with some lily white milquetoast nebbish .

5 posted on 09/18/2022 4:49:19 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

And suddenly...there no white people in commercials anymore!


6 posted on 09/18/2022 4:49:24 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I hope this shirt will make me look as like the lard ass modeling it...... said no one ever.


7 posted on 09/18/2022 4:50:12 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: House Atreides

Is it any wonder why even black guys don’t want them?


8 posted on 09/18/2022 4:52:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I don’t walk around making fun of overweight people.
I don’t call them names.
I don’t judge. It’s not my place.

But, if some major advertiser shoves an overweight, unhealthy person in my face and says: “She’s beautiful! This is what beauty looks like!”

It is at that point that I say: “She’s fat, she’s ugly, and it makes me angry to have to look at her as some kind of icon.”


9 posted on 09/18/2022 5:00:43 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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“Risks?”, present or future tense?

Too late, it’s already toxic.

CC


10 posted on 09/18/2022 5:04:14 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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It’s all a fraud...and most consumers are too cowed and intimidated to call it what it is.


11 posted on 09/18/2022 5:09:22 PM PDT by simpson96
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Why don’t you not buy from those companies?


12 posted on 09/18/2022 5:20:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; nickcarraway

Meaning, “Ugly fat women don’t want be be considered ugly fat women.”


13 posted on 09/18/2022 5:20:29 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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You might want to check the statistics. The majority of white men and women are overweight.


14 posted on 09/18/2022 5:21:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Sales of Walmart Grocery Scooters will increase dramatically. Just be careful turning the corner at the end of the aisle.


15 posted on 09/18/2022 5:22:34 PM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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And suddenly...there no white people in commercials anymore!

...because there were no white people watching television anymore.

16 posted on 09/18/2022 5:30:29 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: nickcarraway

“Body positivity” means “celebrate morbid obesity”.


17 posted on 09/18/2022 5:33:30 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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And as transgenderism means celebrating self-mutilation.


18 posted on 09/18/2022 5:39:28 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“paired with some lily white milquetoast nebbish .”

The pajama boy?


19 posted on 09/18/2022 5:43:22 PM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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“Why the Body Positivity Movement Risks Turning Toxic”

It was toxic during its birth and ever since, shaddup!


20 posted on 09/18/2022 5:54:22 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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