So I’m not entirely sure how to feel about this, but I know that I don’t like it. I saw this article on facebook about body positivity being ‘garbage’ and it rubbed me the wrong way:

https://southernfitandgreen.com/article/body-positivity-is-garbage/?fbclid=IwAR2zV1vlJoxi-EzAv2Y_fnjdC7pWeFR5-2Yh66GeDflpsCCKcqO14Hk04oI

So I left this response:

So you lost weight and managed to overcome a few health issues in the process? Bully for you. But that is *your* journey and not everyone else’s journey will or should look like that. There’s nothing wrong with sharing your story in the hope of inspiring others, but there *is* something wrong with labeling an entire movement or frame of mind 'garbage’ when a lot of other people are able to take comfort from or be inspired by it. To those of us who will never be able to achieve what would be deemed a medically or socially 'acceptable’ size (or lose *any* significant amount of weight, for that matter), your article comes off incredibly able-ist and condescending. To those of us who are not economically able to do the self-care you tout in this article, it comes off as incredibly privileged. Not to mention, as someone who has dealt with disordered eating for a lot of years, I take major issue with the fact that you seem to paint the weight loss you achieved from being sick and unable to eat as something positive– that’s a slippery, dangerous slope, and I find it irresponsible that it was included in an article that is ostensibly about *health.* The only thing I’m able to remotely agree on is that much of the BP movement has unfortunately been increasingly co-opted to exclude a lot of different types of bodies… including obese bodies. Bottom line is: you’re not saying anything new or eye-opening here. Fat people have all heard the 'being fat is unhealthy and being unhealthy is baaaad!’ song and dance plenty of times by now. It’s unhelpful. It’s just another voice in the cacophonous roar we face every day that screams at us about how our bodies are wrong and we should be doing *more* to change that. Body positivity is not giving ourselves permission to continue to be lazy fat-asses or maintain unhealthy lifestyles. Body positivity is often the only source of affirmation we have that we don’t have to loathe ourselves, or feel like failures because we cannot achieve what virtually everyone else is telling us is 'not that difficult.'

And about a day later they left a link to THIS article (which strikes me as a kind of non-answer) in response: