The “body positivity” movement is making me crazy. We have obese models on the cover of magazines embracing their bodies. The problem is that they are encouraging and promoting a lifestyle that is inherently unhealthy and highly associated with diabetes, heart disease and disability.
All people need to be treated with respect and dignity, but discussions of obesity need to begin with the understanding that obesity is an eating disorder much like anorexia. Anorexics likewise deserve kindness and dignity but with this problem, we all have an understanding that they have an unhealthy and dangerous eating disorder. Why do we not take the same approach with obesity?
It’s understood that anorexics need medical and psychological support and intervention, but increasingly obesity is actually celebrated with confidence. Why???
Hell, they even advertise “skinny jeans” for obese people. Insane oxymoron.
