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.
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.
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It’s all a fraud...and most consumers are too cowed and intimidated to call it what it is.
Sales of Walmart Grocery Scooters will increase dramatically. Just be careful turning the corner at the end of the aisle.
“Body positivity” means “celebrate morbid obesity”.
“Why the Body Positivity Movement Risks Turning Toxic”
It was toxic during its birth and ever since, shaddup!
The toxic part about body positivity is that it will do nothing to help, and probably do things to hinder, progress against obesity-related problems like diabetes, heart disease and so on. That’s what’s toxic about it.
I’m about 20 pounds overweight myself, and by no means do I feel positive about it. That belly fat is not doing me any good. Hopefully, I will slowly continue losing it, and become simultaneously more handsome and healthy.
And then I’m reminded of El Rushbo’s Ultimate Truths...
#24: Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society
Toxic?
How many fat people were killed by “body positivity” zealots scaring doctors out of telling them honestly that obesity is one of the top factors in determining who dies of COVID? Or dying in general? Since mourners always lean over coffins at funerals and say, “Doesn’t s/he look good?,” at least they’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that people will still be lying about how good they look even after they’re dead.
Science has already shown that most physical beauty attributes are generally universally hardwired into people. Babies pick more symmetrical faces more and smile more at them. Babies respond better to people regarded with more attractive features. Babies have not developed societal biases to blame this on.
There are objective standards of beauty.
Womem are far more judgmental on physical beauty. Women find approx. 80% of men unattractive. Men, on the other hand, find about 50% of women not attractive as a potential date.
When I look back at modeling from the 1960s into the early 90s, it seemed they wanted women to look like 12-year-old boys!
Then in the late 90s and early 2000s they had normal-looking women, you know ones with actual curves.
Then starting in the late 2000s, through today, they have decided to go all the way opposite of the 60s-80s and turned on the “overweight is beautiful” mode!
I didn’t like the 12-year-old boy models of the 60s-90s and I don’t care for the hippos-are-hip models of today!!