Y'all need to stop using Chadwick Boseman's name to defend whatever Ariana Grande has going on right now, especially because these are two completely different situations. Yes, Chadwick Boseman lost a significant amount of weight. Yes, people made negative comments about his body. The difference is that nobody knew what was actually happening. Nobody knew he was battling cancer. We didn't learn the truth until after he passed away because he chose to keep his illness private. Naturally, that meant he was also hiding the weight loss that resulted from that illness. And let's be honest Chadwick's weight loss did not create a beauty standard that people wanted to emulate. Nobody was looking at him and thinking, "I want to lose weight and look like him." Whereas Ariana, on the other hand, the illness itself is exactly what it's presenting as. It's not like, "Oh my God, there's some underlying thing that's making her lose all this weight." You want to know why? Because if it were a genuine health condition causing that level of weight loss, she wouldn't be performing right now. If it were some condition that was eating away at her body and genuinely making her waste away, every artist who's ever been on tour will tell you it takes an enormous amount of energy and time to perform those shows consecutively. It literally takes a toll on your body a toll that is not feasible if you are ill in that way. Because she's lost way more weight than Chadwick did before he passed away. You can see her bones. This is not sustainable. And if, for her entire career, people have been trying to copy her, trying to look like her, taking inspiration from her style, her hair, and the way she wears her eyeliner, what makes you think people would not be trying to become as skinny as her? Especially when there is already a huge culture of people trying to get that skinny in the first place. What makes you think that her appearance right now would not contribute to that? And the publicity surrounding the way she looks is part of the illness. That's the part people aren't understanding. They're like, "Oh, well, this happened to Chadwick Boseman and then, look, you guys were proven wrong." That's not what's happening here. And people are like, "Well, what is talking about it going to do?" Bring awareness to the fact that this is an illness, that it isn't sustainable, and that it is not an achievable body type by any healthy, normal standards. But for some reason, people don't see an eating disorder as being an illness in and of itself. One of the main responses I keep seeing is, "Stop talking about her body. What if she's actually sick?" No, that's exactly what we're saying. That's the entire point. We're saying that she's actually sick. And it's being said in response to people who are insisting that she's fine. Like, "No, everything is fine. This is normal. She should be able to look like this." And people continue to ask, "Well, why are people commenting on it? Why is anyone saying anything about a woman's body?" Because people think she should be able to look like that. People think that is normal. And we are telling you that it is not. And I am telling everyone to stop invoking the name of someone who was suffering during the final stages of his life to try to rationalize why Ariana Grande looks the way she does now, and to rationalize why people should be able to say, "No, it's fine. Let's not talk about it."
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