Posted on 04/07/2025 1:30:29 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Get your obituaries in order folks, because the body positivity movement as we knew it, is dead and gone. Sure, that declaration may be a bit extreme, but there is a conversation to be had about the decline in the movement over the last few years. The current body positivity movement has been co-opted and commodified by privileged smaller bodies, who have implemented their own beauty standards and have excluded the very marginalised bodies that created it in the first place.
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Call me racist or fat shaming, I don't care.
They could try and get themselves healthy, so they can feel good aboutthemselves for real.
Ozempic killed the movement and showed it was all just a virtue signaling lie
The “body positive movement” is really targeting an audience of women pretending to care. The big black women let themselves get that way thinking it’s the best way to speak to a different audience: black men.
Sick of the cultural false dichotomies. A reasonable person can treat people who are overweight with respect without having to pretend its not bad that they are overweight.
The author of this article has a lot of time on her hands apparently. It must be fulfilling to start a fat pride movement, and some jobs would be difficult, like being an astronaut. You have to fit in the airlock. There is extra rocket fuel needed. But forcing people to see things they don’t want to see is popular these days.
I read the article. It made no sense to me. What is being taken, stolen, withheld from fat women? Something they inherently deserve and aren’t getting? Are we supposed to say, “Oh, you’re beautiful?” If it’s objectively not true what good would that do? Are they being discriminated against? I see grossly obese black women working in all sorts of jobs. They predominated in my college in various sectors. It looked like you had to be at least THIS fat (see wall chart) to get hired.
Great mystery and suspense writer Elmore Leonard had a passage of two low tier ghetto criminals—
“Whafo is it so many black sisters have got those high asses on ‘em. So many big, high asses.”
“It comes down to evolution. In Africa there have always been really bad droughts. Body fat gets water naturally stored in the rear ends so the women with babies to nurse had the water from their fat to let the babies survive and then they’d reproduce someday. So a lot more with those genes in them are around today.”
I rarely watch live TV (broadcast or streaming), because the content really sucks now. For that, I am grateful because I get to avoid having to view/skip commercials.
Those times I enter a room with my wife watching live TV and a commercial comes on, I want to throw my shoe at the TV. You would think over half of the country is black. The joke is most of the advertisement probably doesn't appeal to the black population in this country.
Is the “body positivity movement” the Fat = Healthy movement?
Or is “body positivity” about lean, strong and healthy? I’m confused.
All the stores now have FAT female mannequins and posters. It’s gross seeing fat mannequins dressed in swimsuits. I saw a chubby male mannequin at Target the other day. The women’s clothing department is about three or four times larger than the men’s department and it’s always by the front doors, so you get slapped right in the face when you walk in.
We talkin "Jackée" to "Nell Carter" in under a year.
Naw, I'm good.
Seems those really fat ones are just plain crazy.
What the hell were you doing in a Target?
They’ve even got fat manikins in stores now.
Arthur Godfrey “Too Fat Polka” 1947 =>
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9h-a9cvsbMM
remember when they called Stacy Abrahams a supermodel?
Super something maybe
“What the hell were you doing in a Target?”
Hanging my head in shame! Walmart is right across the street, too.
Steatopygia
Gesundheit.
I mean, yes, that’s the term.
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