Britt Life

i hate when rich people condescend with the whole 'money can't buy happiness' argument like listen. just because buying your fourth car didn't fill the void in your deluded disconnected-from-reality life doesn't mean not having to worry about food/ bills/medicine wouldn't greatly improve the mental health of literally everyone else on the planet

#indeed

I love Chidi.

We need a mod of this ASAP

Is it just me or is the “body positive” movement not working? Like at all?

Other people have said this before/better, but the problem was presenting all women as beautiful as opposed to eliminating the need for women to be beautiful

I agree with everyone here, and I also think another major reason it isn’t working is because it’s so focused on consumer culture. So much of it seems to revolve around spending a lot of money on clothing and beauty products, shopping, and posting selfies. But companies obviously will never truly care about anyone’s body image, which is how we end up where we are now, with people contouring away their natural features and buying waste trainers and believing it’s “feminist” and “body positive”.  I think it’s really interesting that our current instagram makeup culture arose around the same time as the body positive stuff started, and have become somewhat intertwined. If you think about it, spending lots of money to purchase products from a corporation run by a man, spending lots of your time applying those products, and ultimately putting in a lot of effort to alter your appearance to something that society sees as more attractive is the opposite of whatever “body positive” should be. Yet we’re told it is body positive because it’s a creative way to express yourself and it’s fun. But what’s creative about following the same trends everyone else is following in a generic style designed by a corporation? Whatever authenticity, flawed or otherwise, this movement might have once had has been totally taken over as a corporate marketing scheme. 

Can we discuss this in the scope of plastic surgery and how all these influencers are doing it in the name of feminism and body positivity. They all say that they did it for themselves and nobody else but we don’t exist in a vacuum and the beauty standards set by these corporations, run by men, are why you feel the need to change anything in the first place.