Culture 'Body Positivity has been commercialised' - No more fat chicks.

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Grammy-winning US singer Lizzo believes the body positivity movement has become "commercialised" by the mainstream and hijacked by those who don't need it.

She made the comments while celebrating being the "first big black woman" to grace the cover of Vogue magazine.

Body positivity calls for the acceptance of all shapes and sizes.

"It's commercialised," the Truth Hurts star said. "Now, you look at the hashtag 'body positive' and you see smaller-framed girls, curvier girls."

She went on: "Lotta white girls. And I feel no ways about that, because inclusivity is what my message is always about."

The 32-year-old said she was glad the conversation had moved into the mainstream, but that she didn't like how the people for whom the term was created "are not benefiting from it".

"Girls with back fat, girls with bellies that hang, girls with thighs that aren't separated, that overlap," she said. "Girls with stretch marks. You know, girls who are in the 18-plus club.

"They need to be benefiting from... the mainstream effect of body positivity now. But with everything that goes mainstream, it gets changed. It gets - you know, it gets made acceptable."

'Being fat is normal'
The plus-size pop star confirmed her position as one of modern music's most-respected names by bagging three Grammy Awards, including best pop solo performance for Truth Hurts, in January.

She said that at this point, it would be lazy of her just "to just say I'm body positive", and that the next step was to normalise bigger bodies.

"I would like to be body-normative," she continued. "I want to normalise my body. And not just be like, 'Ooh, look at this cool movement. Being fat is body positive'.

"No, being fat is normal. I think now, I owe it to the people who started this to not just stop here. We have to make people uncomfortable again, so that we can continue to change.

"Change is always uncomfortable, right?"

The topic of body weight has returned to the agenda once more during the coronavirus pandemic.

Last month, a global analysis suggested that being obese doubled the risk of hospital treatment from Covid-19 and increased the risk of dying by almost 50%.
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Tl;dr Lizzo's mad that she's no longer considered special for being a blob, and is now having to be considered for her music, which was never good.
 
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"No, being fat is normal. I think now, I owe it to the people who started this to not just stop here. We have to make people uncomfortable again, so that we can continue to change.

"Change is always uncomfortable, right?"

:thinking:Then why did I see you in a workout video posted on Tik Tok months ago?

 
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We have to make people uncomfortable again, so that we can continue to change.
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When does it end? When does change for the sake of change end? Can we really just not keep anything that's actually good? Why do these people keep winning.
 
Body positivity calls for the acceptance of all shapes and sizes.

"It's commercialised," the Truth Hurts star said. "Now, you look at the hashtag 'body positive' and you see smaller-framed girls, curvier girls."

She went on: "Lotta white girls. And I feel no ways about that, because inclusivity is what my message is always about."
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"Body Positivity and Inclusivity are my message if you're a very fat black woman. If you are anything but that you're not included and can fuck right off sweatie." :story:
 
It was fucking commercialized the moment you pricks took it away from acid attack victims, farm accidents and wounded veterans so you could feel better about your lack of restraint.

In other words: lol fat.
 
Grammy-winning US singer Lizzo believes the body positivity movement has become "commercialised" by the mainstream and hijacked by those who don't need it.
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There's just something so deliciously oblivious about that statement. Your very being is commercialized, you stupid fuck. Every time you whine about thin people into a microphone you're making a cool 10 mil for your record company, not to mention pocketing a couple yourself. Literally the only way you could be more of a corporate pinata is if you started including advertisements in your awful "music".
 
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When does it end? When does change for the sake of change end? Can we really just not keep anything that's actually good? Why do these people keep winning.
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Because we put autistic nerds and whiny narcs in charge of culture.
 
Lotta black men. And I feel no ways about that, because lowering crime is what my message is always about
 
Translation: WHAT ABOUT ME?! Body positivity is supposed to make ME millions! These skinny bitches are stealing MY MONEY!
 
Lotta white girls. And I feel no ways about that, because inclusivity is what my message is always about
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Which is why she brought it up at all. Sure.
 
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Remember when Dove launched a campaign promoting natural beauty? Wouldn't that mean women shouldn't buy their beauty products anymore?
 
Being fat is only normal in an affluent stable industrial society. Go back a few decades or travel a few thousand miles to almost any third world country and tell me how "normal" it is to see fat people there.
 
Every social justice trend is commercialized you fat fuck. Why do you think every single brand bravely backed BLM? Money.

On a smaller scale, everybody wants to feel like an underdog. So of course people who don't fit in to what she personally feels 'the movement' should be about will jump on. But shouldn't body positivity be all inclusive? She does say all shapes and sizes, so "attractive size" should be included in that.

Just say you're too lazy to improve yourself and move on.
 
If you didn't see that coming at you like a semi, the fat has rotted your brain. The corporations love HAES. It means they have useful idiots happy to buy junk food without hesitation.
 
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Being fat is only normal in an affluent stable industrial society. Go back a few decades or travel a few thousand miles to almost any third world country and tell me how "normal" it is to see fat people there.
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idk... I lived few years in 3 third world countries (Mexico, Bolivia, Egypt) and there's almost as many fat/obese people as in the US, at least in the cities as far as I can tell.
 
Obesity is a sign of wealth in poor societies and a sign of poverty in rich societies. Mainly because the cheapest food available is junk food.
 
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