RE: Body confidence campaigners try to redesign video game women
July 25, 2015 at 7:30 pm
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2015 at 7:34 pm by Regina.)
Being somebody who has actually had body image issues, I'm not against body image campaigns which educate us on what *normal* healthy bodies are supposed to look like. It's certainly relevant with things like sex organs and breasts, natural range of weight, body shape, body changes that will happen during puberty, stuff that all teenagers do worry about.
Emphasis on "normal"... that doesn't mean lying to us that being 200lbs overweight is healthy and normal, which it isn't.
It's a problem with this "fat activism" movement that has gained popularity in unicorn-fairy Tumblrina land in the last couple of years. No, a doctor telling you "you need to lose weight or you'll get a heart attack" is not "fat shaming" you, it's a doctor doing their job.
Emphasis on "normal"... that doesn't mean lying to us that being 200lbs overweight is healthy and normal, which it isn't.
It's a problem with this "fat activism" movement that has gained popularity in unicorn-fairy Tumblrina land in the last couple of years. No, a doctor telling you "you need to lose weight or you'll get a heart attack" is not "fat shaming" you, it's a doctor doing their job.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
