blurgh blurgh blurgh. really wishing i’d done my persuasive speech on body positivity and fat acceptance
last week a girl gave a speech all about eating right, which yes, is a good thing, but most of her points were framed around ~THE DANGERS OF THE OBESITY EPIDEMIC~ and weight loss, and no, that is not okay.
then today a guy gave a speech about how EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE THEIR OWN PERSONAL TRAINER (let’s not even get into the issues of class, money, and accessibility there) and said something about how if you want to see what “great bodies” look like, just turn on the tv, because a lot of actors and actresses have really “great bodies,” and then about how there were also “not great bodies” on tv, too, so it provided good examples of what we shouldn’t look like.
he went right before me, and i was so tempted to make some snide comment about how great my obese body is, but it’s not a debate or conversation-centered class, so.
