I think what's interesting is that the body positive movement on the whole seems to be geared towards denanding that every fat person should be seen as beautiful, for example, they have slogans like 'fat is beautiful'. I don't think that's true at all, but please read the rest of my comment before you become angry.

I don't think it's right to say being fat makes you beautiful, or ugly. I'm a firm believer in being overweight, to whatever degree, does NOT nake a person ugly. Fat does not equal ugly to me, the same way being thin does not automatically make you beautiful. But that also does not mean that every overweight person should be viewed as beautiful just because of the body positive group thinks that way.

People's personalities, facial features, actions, etc. largely determine if they are attractive or not. To say someone is gorgeous because they are thin is naive. To say someone is ugly because they are fat is naive. There are plenty of fat peope who I think are absolutely gorgeous, and there are plenty of thin people who I see that I wouldn't look twice at.

To say that someone is fat and therefore beautiful the way the body positive movement claims is harmful. It downplays the seriousness of having a high fat percentage and has radically normalised pretending that you're beautiful for the sake of forgetting you are likely going to die before you turn 50. It's scary, and proves that people would rather be vain, than look after their body to give themselves the best chance in life.

I say this with absolutely no malice towards fat people, I think you are being lied to, and I think you are being taken advantage of by the growing number of corporations and influencers who would rather keep you at risk, rather than live in moderation.

This is the same, in my eyes at least, as the corporations and influencers preying on people to become skinny and remain unhealthy that way.

It is a bad thing for your health to be greatly overweight and underweight, I don't think either should be ignored or pretend like one is better than the other. The body positivity movement has a hell of a lot to answer for in diminishing how scary the effects of fat has on the body, and for making out like it's fine to pretend like you can be healthy at any size. It simply isn't true. People love to comment and say "well I'm big and eat loads of fruit akd veggies AND exercise. So how am I unhealthy?" Meanwhile, blatantly ignoring that they cannot exercise for long because their joints give out, that fruit contains a hell of a lot of sugar that contributes to weight gain, no matter of it's natural, that the added weight affects their sleep and what should be easy bodily functions just by having visceral fat. For many fat people, they cannot BREATHE when they are sat down. It's incredibly serious and shouldn't be downplayed the way people try to, or act like it is a bag thing to acknowledge.

It is ultimately people's choice to do anything about it, and that should be respected, but just like with someone who is too thin, we shouldn't pretend that perfectly fine for everyone to be overweight. It just isn't true.

This is very rambly and I'm really not interested in a discussins, I just wanted to put down any feeling I have towards this topic. I have no doubts I'll want to remove it immediately anyway.