[–] Humansized 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If its failing does that mean I can watch tv without seeing this shit? Browse the internet without it? Go out into the world and not be accosted with the sight of these planets in low orbit? I can only dream of such a day
[–] GutterTrash 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
No fucking shit. When you have articles like this that state esteem is on the decline in the same year/time frame where other articles state that the rates of obesity have gotten so high that now 1 in 4 women are obese you would have to be completely retarded to not see the link.
[–] LessRealsMoreFeels 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Apparently no matter how many articles you write stating otherwise, an apple is not a banana. If anything the body-positivity movement has made things worse for fatties, with its anti-improvement mantra.
[–] AltamontPass 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
“When we can see a variety of shapes and sizes as normalized and acceptable and beloved, it will go a long way in helping us individually embrace our own beauty”
No, it fucking won't. Because no honest man or woman in their right mind would think that someone like Ashley Graham can even come close to a woman like Giselle. Try and change our hardwiring all you want, it won't work.
[–] Belgian_boom 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
I like diversity, seeing short/tall people, white/black/asian people, blue or brown eyed people, slender or muscular people. But I dont like fatfucks. They cant understand that being a fatty isn't being diverse, is being dumb.
[–] Fatkinisfat 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
None of these women made the connection that if you want to be confident, earn a body that's worth it. Confidence is earned, bitches.
[–] BlackThornOfLove 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
Reading the article, what it tells me is more and more girls and women are getting fat. No one is educated on calories, and the stigma of counting them is still considered a sign of a n eating disorder. The depression of being fat mounts, and the fat models on tv only serve to let them feel good about over eating while making them feel like shit because they aren't those airbrushed hourglass fats. These girls will act on depression, not eat for most of a day which is never recommended unless you are doing it for fasting purposes, then they eat and binge. This cycle continues.
So we have people hating being body positive but getting fatter. I say the problem is education. America is utterly fucked. I am helping a new friend lose weight, and his personal trainers and a doctor said to not exercise more than 45 minutes or else he will burn his muscle away. I rightfully set him straight on that. We have professionals telling enormous people to watch out for starvation mode as well. Had someone who went to nursing school get utterly pissed at me when I said it wasn't true, and she was thin.
I don't think there is anyway to fix this aside from a massive overhaul of teaching better shit in schools. But that isn't going to happen anytime soon, and not with the two candidates coming up. All we can do is stay shitlords and shitlord those close to us, wait till they all die out, and yell a big "I told ya so".
[–] Slyboots 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Wait working out for more than 45 mins burns muscle away? Who da fuck came up with that?! Cause by that logic I should be a fat fuck cause Im in the gym for 2-3 hours every other day....I must have funny mirrors in my house that makes me looked ripped. Weird.
[–] Adi-opposed ago
I think it might have been Milo that said that one of the reasons women in this day and age are so miserable about themselves is that they're basically being TOLD that they're beautiful "no matter what" and that being fat is alright so they just go full ham, wreck their bodies/health and then wonder why when they look in the mirror that they don't see the pristine goddess that their hugbox has been telling them they are.
I've been watching one of my friends slowly get fatter (she works in a chocolate store now, god help her) and her boyfriend, who used to be super rail thin, is now starting to get a gut. My shitlord boyfriend actually noticed the last time she came over for a party and wore a crop-top. Her fuckin gut was hanging out, and everything. She claims to be a size 8, but I'd say she's closer to a 12/14 now.
I bet she is still in the phase of denial where all of the body positive bullshit is floating around her head and her boyfriend is along for the ride, doesn't want to be alone, so tolerates her weight gain because he's getting puss on the reg (gag). I have a lot of my old fat clothes, and I'm going to give her my size 8s (because I'm absolutely sure she won't fit into them since they're from before vanity sizing started getting insane) and just watch her whole world collapse.
I was fat because people in Texas told me I was "skinny" and that I "shouldn't worry about dieting". I was 160 fucking pounds at 5'6". I look back at "sexy" pictures I used to take, and recoil in horror. I haven't even taken any sexy pictures (since I'm not in the dating pool anymore) in about a year but the way I look in the mirror now, as compared to then, is shockingly different. I always knew there was something wrong with the way I looked and felt back then, but I couldn't put my finger on it. The bucket of crabs mentality is fierce and all-consuming (teehee).