"Body Positivity" and Other Bullshit

Click to see the Huffington Post feature

Right at this moment all of us inhabit the exact body we have intentionally created. Yeah, I hear the “well—what about?” crowd screaming loudly now. What about people who were in accidents, or contracted an illness? Obviously we’re not talking about these people but rather the vast majority who have intentionally created and promoted their own physical decline. The whatabouts are made up of the exception-to-the-rule crowd, those types always looking for an out, ignoring the core 99% of the issue so as to promote their self-serving 1% example.

Nobody likes to be criticized, much less shamed. Yet there is no more obvious outward display of one’s overall self esteem than our bodies, how we've made them look and perform. Look around: people pretending they have no control or interest over what they eat or how much beneficial physical activity they engage in are, sadly, the majority. One’s taking responsibility has never been a strong human trait. “Trying to get away with it” on the other hand, has.

It’s all well and good that people want to eat whatever they want whenever they want in any quantity they want, or that they don’t want to exert themselves physically. But demanding accommodation from others to support the inevitable negative results of their choice is grotesque, and that’s where preposterous campaigns like “Body Positivity” come in. “Body Positivity” apparently means not only accepting the negative results of one’s poor choices, but actually celebrating them.

This “accept and celebrate your failure to lead a healthful life” campaign is no different than a loud, media-supported, emotionally-charged campaign to accept, celebrate and flaunt how deeply in debt you’ve gotten yourself. It’s no different than accepting and celebrating termites eating away at your house, or the bald tires on the car you chauffeur your kids around in. In truth most people with termites or tire or debt problems would go out of their way to responsibly fix these things before they caused inextricably serious consequences, yet many of the same people pay no attention to their deteriorating body and decreased mobility, and thus, their core health. There is no separating the two despite the Body Positivity crowd's ludicrous campaign against facts.

Human nature is such that we first create the problem then not until that problem becomes intolerable do we seek a fix or cure or solution, often when it's too late. Prevention is far easier, cheaper and more accessible than a cure.

“Body Positivity” is bullshit. In this link to the air-headed Huffington Post feature, it is egregious that the fashion crowd have lumped together people who choose to eat too much with others in wheelchairs or with skin conditions, as if they are one and the same. The message they promote is vile. It’s an insult to those who truly have conditions as a direct result of circumstance to equate them with overeaters who choose and are in complete control of their so-called “condition.”