Anonym (Kk) skrev 2024-09-02 14:48:06 följande:
Bodypositivity sitt ursprung ur konkurrensen mellan kvinnor?Det var ett synnerligen dåligt försök till förklaring. Samtal ansikte till ansikte kan inte jämställas med diskurser på samhällsnivå.
Bodypositivismen har sitt ursprung i vikthetsen mot kvinnor.
ClumsySmurf skrev 2024-09-02 02:14:27 följande:
finns olika former av kroppspositivism,
den ena är för dum för att vara sann vilket gör folk misstänksamma
The final videos posted to Brittany Sauer's TikTok page make for upsetting viewing. Speaking tearfully to the camera, the 31-stone social media star, who often posted defiantly 'body-positive' content about how 'hot' she felt in certain outfits, admitted with shocking candour that she had 'ruined her life' with food and binge eating.
And it had left her, aged just 28, full of regrets.
Brittany had been a virtual prisoner in her own home for two years, dealing with type 2 diabetes and repeated bouts of the skin infection cellulitis which had caused a growth in her pelvis weighing more than two stone. She had even been forced to ask someone else to cut her toenails, as it left her 'too breathless'.
Yet she hoped, desperately, that it wasn't too late to save herself. 'I'm scared I'm going to end up in a bad place that my body can't recover from,' she said to her half-a-million TikTok followers. 'I want you to know it's not worth it ? food isn't worth your life.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12872397/These-four-social-media-influencers-swept-movement-claims-obesity-perfectly-healthy-tragic-truth-died-age-45.htmlFat acceptance as social justice
Fat communities, such as the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA), have contested society?s stubborn generalizations that associate fatness with disease and poor health outcomes, and push back against the assumption that fat people have little regard for themselves or their own well-being. They argue that thinking about obesity as a disease or medical risk (such as for severe COVID-19) contributes to stigma because it positions larger bodies as drains on an already-taxed health care system.
The NAAFA mobilizes the term "fat" in its fight against weight discrimination and fatphobia in all aspects of life, including in employment, health care and education. Similarly, as social scientists, we use the term "fat" rather than the deeply problematic medical term, "obesity," which causes harm to people under the guise of benign objectivity. Categories can shape how individuals view themselves, as philosopher Ian Hacking has argued; they reinforce judgments about people who do not conform to a norm. Thus, "obesity" is not merely a statistical category, but is rather an evaluation about what constitutes an ideal weight. To "fatten" a category, Mollow and McRuer explain, ?means examining it through the lenses of fat studies and the fat justice movement.?4
Scholars of fat studies understand fatness as a way of thinking about bodily diversity.5 This literature maintains that fatness should be uncoupled from pathology, as such framings attach fatness to a sense of moral weakness and failed citizenship, and can fuel stigma in various settings, even health care.6 Such an uncoupling is increasingly supported by medical and population health research, which suggests that people who are labelled obese are not necessarily unhealthy.7
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8443289/Social Justice Usage
Fat studies has its roots in radical feminism (particularly fat feminism), which regarded the idea that obesity is unhealthy and unattractive as part of an oppressive, patriarchal beauty myth that pressured women to be conventionally attractive and dainty and not take up much space. However, it has increasingly moved away from radical feminism, combined with other forms of fat activism, and has become part of the intersectional framework as it has become more centrally located within Social Justice paradigms.
Like disability studies, fat studies draws on the work of Michel Foucault and queer Theory to argue that negative attitudes about obesity are socially constructed and the result of systemic power that marginalizes and oppresses fat people (and fat perspectives) and of unjust medicalized narratives in order to justify prejudice against obese people (see also, healthism, nutritionism, Foucauldian, biopower, and thinnormativity). This prejudice is known as fatphobia.
Fat studies, which bears an uncanny resemblance to an obesity support group publishing its takes as academic work, takes particular aim at the claim that obesity is unhealthy, frequently by cherry-picking studies and refusing to think statistically. It makes claims like "every disease related to obesity is also found in thin people" and rejects studies that show diabetes, heart disease, several cancers, and a shortened life expectancy to be related to obesity. When it does accept some link between health and weight, fat studies refers to the idea that this should influence ones diet or behavior as "healthism"-an unjust ideology insisting that people have a responsibility to be healthy (see also, responsibilizing). Fat studies has also taken issue with commonly held views that obesity detracts from attractiveness, arguing this to be a cultural construct by showing examples in which obesity has been considered attractive in other times and places. It therefore argues that a sexual preference for slim bodies represents discrimination and should be unlearned.
Fat studies scholars and activists use critical methods to campaign against attitudes and norms they consider "fatphobic" in many areas of life, ranging from the size of seats in airplanes and restaurants, the price of larger clothes, the (unsurprising) difficulty of finding a doctor who won't consider obesity a health issue, and the prevalence of what they refer to as "diet culture" in mainstream society (see also, nutritionism). Protests have included campaigning against Cancer Research releasing information on the links between obesity and cancer and the advertisement by Protein World, which produces supplements for athletes featuring a slim model asking ?Are You Beach Body Ready?? Fat studies tends to favor a ?Healthy at Every Size? model that contends that body fat percentage, BMI, and weight are unrelated to health status, even statistically. (Instead, they are indicative of social constructions that are systemically discriminated against
https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-fat-studies/