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.
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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.
As an observation, black women are severely underrepresented when an interracial couple are portrayed.
“ 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.
LOL. Aint' that the truth! I don't see any big fat black welfare queens paired with some lily white milquetoast nebbish .
And suddenly...there no white people in commercials anymore!
I hope this shirt will make me look as like the lard ass modeling it...... said no one ever.
Is it any wonder why even black guys don’t want them?
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.”
“Risks?”, present or future tense?
Too late, it’s already toxic.
CC
It’s all a fraud...and most consumers are too cowed and intimidated to call it what it is.
Why don’t you not buy from those companies?
Meaning, “Ugly fat women don’t want be be considered ugly fat women.”
You might want to check the statistics. The majority of white men and women are overweight.
Sales of Walmart Grocery Scooters will increase dramatically. Just be careful turning the corner at the end of the aisle.
...because there were no white people watching television anymore.
“Body positivity” means “celebrate morbid obesity”.
And as transgenderism means celebrating self-mutilation.
“paired with some lily white milquetoast nebbish .”
The pajama boy?
“Why the Body Positivity Movement Risks Turning Toxic”
It was toxic during its birth and ever since, shaddup!
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