Does anyone else remember when excessive thinness was a major controversy and the media spent countless hours debating the unrealistic beauty standards of Hollywood and the modeling industry? The problem was so bad that these standards were linked to an increase in anorexia and bulimia among adolescent girls.
I’m not sure how it happened, but instead of promoting average body sizes and healthy lifestyles, in recent years, we’ve seen the other extreme take over. Under the guise of inclusivity and body positivity, popular culture has been celebrating obesity and even claiming that it's perfectly healthy.
Advertisements that were once limited to tall and impossibly thin models now feature unattractive fatties that no one actually wants to see, and we’re all supposed to clap and pretend that these excessively rotund people are brave and that they teach people to be comfortable with themselves when that is not what’s happening at all.
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When the body positivity movement comes up, Lizzo is the first name that comes to mind. She may be a singer, but my knowledge of her is limited to the fact that she has built a brand around her substantial size and her efforts to change societal perceptions of morbid obesity. I have never been shy about calling out Lizzo or the body positivity movement for being a destructive force in our culture. Yes, it was bad when teenage eating disorders were a growing problem, but the solution wasn't telling kids that it's okay to be fat, either.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says that around 42% of adults in the United States are classified as obese, and a staggering 77% fall into the category of being overweight. To put it another way, Americans who are at a healthy weight are in the minority. Additionally, 20% of children are classified as overweight or obese. This is not progress. The body positivity movement can't claim any moral high ground over the super-thin standards of the past. Just as anorexia and bulimia took lives too soon, so has the body positivity movement.
The following video comes from Brittany Sauer, a body positivity influencer on TikTok. In it, she warned her followers about the dangers of overeating, the positivity movement, and the health problems she'd been experiencing, lamenting that she "hopes it's not too late for me."
Brittany Sauer promoted body-positivity as an influencer on TikTok.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 26, 2023
She recently uploaded a warning video to her fans, telling them that overeating and body positivity was a huge mistake.
Unfortunately it was too late for herself. At just 28 years old, Brittany has passed away.… pic.twitter.com/fub1WEpVVn
Unfortunately for her, it was too late. She died at the age of 28, a week after the video was posted. Her story is not unique. In fact, she is one of four body positivity influencers on social media who have died recently — all of them under the age of 45. Four of them!
How many more lives have been ruined by the body positivity movement that we don't know about? It's one thing to say that people should be treated with respect regardless of their weight, but it's another thing entirely to pretend that being obese is healthy when it is not.
Brittany Sauer didn't have her epiphany until it was too late. Will Lizzo? How many young people have to die in the name of "inclusivity" before body positivity proponents realize the damage they've done?
