This cartoon has four panels.
All the panels show people standing in a blank cartoon space and talking directly to the readers.
PANEL 1 Three women, all unambiguously fat, are smiling warmly and talking to the readers. The one on the left, who is white, is wearing cool boots, and an open red plaid shirt over a black dress. Sheās wearing squarish glasses. The other two women are black. The middle woman is wearing a crop top shirt with a brightly colored blue and pink pattern, and bright blue shorts. The woman on the right is wearing a plain white tee, blue shorts, and red-and-blue sneakers.
BOOTS: Body positivity means that no one should apologize or be made to feel bad for their body.
SNEAKERS: Love the body youāre in!
PANEL 2 A white woman, thin and with carefully styled blond hair, has walked out in from of the three fat women. Sheās carrying a big sign that says āLove the body youāre inā in cheerful large lettering thatās a bit nostalgic for the 1960s. Below the lettering is a picture of a tube of lotion.
Behind the new woman, Boots looks startled and distressed. Sneakers is holding up a finger like sheās trying to object. And we canāt see what Crop Top is doing, because sheās almost completely blocked from view by the womanās sign.
THIN WOMAN: āBody positivityā sounds great! You know what this would be amazing for? Selling skin care products!
PANEL 3 Two more thin white people have entered. One is a young woman with a pony tail, wearing yoga pants and a crop top; sheās sitting on the floor, legs curled under, and is holding her smartphone high to take a selfie. The other is a salesman-looking man, wearing a blazer over a v-neck shirt, who is holding up a book for us to see. The bookās title is āLove Your THIN Self.ā Both of the newbies are talking very cheerfully. Between these two newbies, and the blonde woman with the sign, Boots and Crop Top are almost completely blocked. (We can see Crop Topās eyes, which look annoyed). Sneakers can be seen better, and is open-mouthed with how appalled she is.
PONYTAIL: If I bend just the right way, thereās a fat roll! Helping women like me is what body positivity is all about!
BLAZER: Diet companies are also part of the body positivity movement! Losing weight will help people love their bodies!
PANEL 4 Thereās now a lot of smiling people, nearly all white, crowded into the panel. Most are thin, a couple are a bit chubby, but thereās no one here youād describe as āobese.ā Everyone is grinning and talking to the readers.Boots and Crop Top cannot be seen at all. We can see just a bit of Sneakers, as a smiling woman in a pretty pink blouse with an open back, with string forming a spiderweb pattern over the open part, violently shoves Sneakers out of the panel.
EVERYONE IN UNISON: Remember, body positivity is for everybody!
PINK BLOUSE: Except for really fat people. We canāt glorify obesity.
CAPTION AT BOTTOM OF STRIP A large caption under the strip says āA CONCISE HISTORY OF BODY POSITIVITY.ā
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