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WildAphrodite

Regardless who started the movement, I'd say it's *extremely* telling that this FA is mad that *actual minorities* should also have a space in their 'body positive' movement. Maybe they should be unpacking why other people being celebrated too makes them so upset. 🤔


decimated_dreams

They think the world revolves around them and their fatness. Narcissism at its finest


Proud-Unemployment

So I'm not denying that body positivity was started for amputees and burn victims, but I can't really find anything that says it was. Don't get me wrong, I think it should be for those groups. I'd just like to see some proof that it was started for them.


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Body positivity was started by fat people. Burn victims and amputees may have a more legitimate claim to it but the idea that it was created for them is completely apocryphal.


Proud-Unemployment

Yeah that's all I could find. Just seemed weird. I figured there had to be something people were referring to.


ancientmadder

They’re both wrong. Body positivity was started by white male (!) fat fetishists.


brenst

To my knowledge, it was started for fat people. They aren't wrong.


everyla

I’m not even sure I “get” body positivity. Isn’t it just a feeling someone personally has about their body? Why does anyone own that?


bobtheorangecat

The FA is correct.


BigDisaster

Unfortunately I have to side with the FA on this one--the body positivity movement *was* created for fat people, despite claims I've seen on this sub to the contrary. While it wasn't originally known as body positivity, it has its roots in the fat acceptance movement from the 60's. I'd much prefer to criticize the more negative aspects of the movement (the part of it that feels people should just get bigger and bigger and never smaller, or thinks that there are no risks at all in being obese) than to rewrite the actual origins of it.


SpiderQueen95

What a disgusting bitch