• BolexForSoup@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    “Big is beautiful” is a direct response to the discourse about body image. Obesity is also a real problem tied to many things like you mentioned. These can both be true.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Right, but its response is inadequate and can be harmful. Instead of refocusing the body image issue to incorporate health, it just refutes one extreme and replaces it with another.