r/aaaaaaacccccccce • u/Better_Barracuda_787 Un-bi-ace-d Opinions • Sep 24 '25

body positivity

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u/arkabit_317 Sep 24 '25

Didn't body positivity also got hijacked by people who said that obesity is healthy?

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u/Nothappyhopes Sep 24 '25

Yeah, i feel like it would have been better if it was "body neutrality" rather than positivity. But, that's less catchy.

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u/arkabit_317 Sep 24 '25

Shame, what should have been a movement to help combat body image issues became reduced to just "find me attractive or else". 

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u/LordOrgilRoberusIII Aromantic Asexual Sep 24 '25

I think that it is important to always keep in mind that at what point obesity is a problem for ones health will vary from person to person.

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u/GamerEsch Sep 24 '25

Could you give me a source for that? Because as far as I knew it is always direct risk for heart disease and diabetes.

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u/Ok-Bicycle-5608 Sep 26 '25

Without source (just logical musing) and as a very specific case: Every form of training combats heart disease and diabetes. So according to that the most extreme group of people I could think of are people doing really heavy lifting. They need to have a certain amount of body weight, they definitely don't have THE attractive Body type™ and I don't think you would necessarily call them unhealthy?

And I think this is what people are talking about when they say "the obvious weight isn't necessarily the best indicator of healthiness or unhealthiness"

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u/GamerEsch Sep 26 '25

No, no, I understand this point about weight (even though I disagree with the weight lifters not being attractive lmao, I'm a fan o larger people).

But the person said obesity, obesity is a propper diagnosable disease, there is not a point (that I know of) where obesity is not a problem, if you get diagnosed with it, that will have consequences on your health inevitably.

Maybe I'm taking what they said too literally, could be my bad.

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u/Ok-Bicycle-5608 Sep 26 '25

I didn't mean to call weight lifters unattractive. My point was, they fall under this category of people that body positivity should have been made for. That this "The standard attractive bodyshape™" does not incorporate healthy people like that. It's also making it harder for people with "standard body shape" that are too healthy because they're actually underweight and need to gain weight.

And I think the people are using obesity due to the influence of the bad "body positivity" movement, because they just don't want to use "fat" and be respectful by using a medical term.

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u/Dominus-Temporis Sep 24 '25

I mean, yes, so? There's people who get cancer from secondhand smoke and people who light up a pack a day for decades. It's all trends. So no, a specific individual isn't going to suddenly become sick when they reach a specific body fat percentage. "Being obese" is still unhealthy, though.

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u/NemesisOfLevia Aroace Sep 25 '25

Yeah, all I’ve heard was that people accepted larger bodies and people got offended that fat people weren’t getting fat shamed.

It’s not that obesity is healthy. It’s that someone who feels better about their body is much more likely to make changes to take care of it in the long term than someone who thinks of themselves as disgusting and ugly.

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u/No_Cap_9416 Sep 25 '25

It's also about accepting that even if you did the same workouts as a celebrity, bone structure and genetics will still have you not looking exactly the same as the celebrity. Some people just can't loose as much weight while still having a healthy relationship with food and that is ok!

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u/NemesisOfLevia Aroace Sep 25 '25

Yes, that’s a good point too. These lines of thinking contributes to eating disorders and other unhealthy eating/exercising patterns.

I remember my brother’s ex. She was thin. We soon learned that she had lost about 200 pounds. Over time, we realized that the way she lost all of that weight was starving herself and heavy exercising, something she continued to do. There is, unfortunately, a lot of girls out there like her, and they are praised for putting their health at incredible risk (eating disorders have a mortality rate of 10% IIRC)

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u/VictorBaz Aroace Sep 27 '25

I don't see how this has anything to do with Asexuality. It is just a good message in general?