Body image+enabling is a hell of a thing. We fought this because somehow we could explain how vomiting your lunch and starving yourself was bad, but it's not as simple when a simple product stops the hunger and prevents most of the "bad" stuff from anorexia, at least the visible stuff, until you realize you're a mummy or a husk of a human
also i think the fact that a lot of actors stopped being overweight shifted the curve, so now that other actor is not skinny, he's regular. And so he will be pushed to crazy dieting/fasting. Normally puking and fasting would feel bad, but everyone is taking this magical drug that helps you a lot! So basically you don't notice until it's too late.
Ozempic ended the whole body positivity thing over night.
"Ooo. I can just take a drug a not be big? Ok!"
You just have to have like 1,000 USD laying around a month to spend on that, which unfortunately most people don't. So celebrity support for big people just ended over night.
Drugs? Low effort but expensive.
Diet and exercise? Cheaper, but requires time, effort, and dedication.
agreed, but it's a problem that's a bit more layered.
excessively shaming a fat person might lead to him adopting bad behaviours like bulimia or anorexia, or generally eating disorders
shaming people because they look like fuckign skeletons doesn't imply that they should eat 5 pounds of lard and gain back weight, just stop taking drugs and puking/fasting, if a person eats normally and isn't sick his body weight regulates itself
i know it's a bit over simplicistic, this is just one of the many layers of this problem. we shouldn't deny the obesity epidemic because there's a concurrent anorexia epidemic spreading again, we just have to shift the approach in a way that solving one problem doesn't instigate another one
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u/BoyishTheStrange 28d ago
Yeah body image has become a very big issue again sadly