Rethinking body image, and how I want to talk about bodies, in 2020 - as well as the choices I spend my time and money on that are influenced by this.
“For 2020, and beyond, we might consider resolving something differently: To combat our fatphobia and to take some steps to unpack that which still exists within many of us individually, and which affects not only our relationships to ourselves but to those around us. Ultimately, to be a little kinder to ourselves and to those around us.”
“I cannot remember when, or through whom, I first came across this question, but I know it changed my life (no exaggeration):
Who profits from your insecurities? Because it sure as hell isn’t you.
“Begin recognizing that there are multi-billion dollar industries whose survival depends on us hating ourselves. Their survival depends on manufacturing flaws that will inevitably plague us for a lifetime: The mainstream beauty industry with its anti-aging focus, the mainstream fashion industry with its exclusion of fat bodies, the medical-industrial complex, and the weight loss business (one of the most successful ones in the world). Corporations thrive when we do not but we can choose to break that cycle when we acknowledge its existence.”
https://www.thetemper.com/combat-fatphobia/
