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Body Positivity: Entitled Delusions or Deceptive Manipulations?

“When did you all become such fucking liars?”

“And what’s with this ‘body positivity’ nonsense? Since when did obesity become healthy? Since when did heart attacks, diabetes, and various cardiovascular problems become healthy? Since when did it become OK to tell such blatant lies?”

“And those glorifying obesity as if it’s beautiful, I know most of you are lying, I don’t believe a word you say until I see you pursuing obese partners, your words may say one thing, but your actions say something else entirely. Why the lies, why the pretense, why this nonsense?”

“Because you feel guilty for saying the truth? You think it’s better to lie than to tell the truth and hurt someone’s feelings even though everyone knows that you’re lying including the people whose feelings you don’t want to hurt? When did you all become such fucking liars?”

“You think it’s glamorous not to be able to reach your toes or get out of bed by yourself, afraid to walk because you might fall and break your knees, or struggle to get air with any kind of movement? Basically unable to do most things we take for granted?”

“You think that’s good, healthy, and beautiful? What kind of perverse propaganda is this? And what kind of morons do you expect to convince with these blatant lies? Sure, the left loves words like ‘tolerance’ and ‘acceptance’ but what are we accepting?”

“The lack of discipline, excess, gluttony, addiction, disease, co-dependence, ugliness, and early death, that’s what we’re accepting, even glorifying! I’d call it stupid but this is a level of stupidity the word doesn’t quite do justice. Insanity, perhaps.”

“Why stop there? Why not accept, even glorify, literal shit? Why don’t you accuse people of being shit-phobic when they go number 2, why not put shit on a pedestal and call it ‘art’, call it ‘beautiful’? Oh wait, you did that already. Conceptual art — what a clever idea!”

“Humans are the dumbest species I know, you couldn’t catch any other species with this magnitude of nonsense. It’d be funny if it weren’t so tragic and disgusting, these pretentious, lying assholes glorifying shit, glorifying fat, glorifying mutilation.”

“Sure, if you want to die early, if you don’t care that your quality of life has gone down so drastically, go ahead, it’s your life, it’s your business, but why would anyone think of it as a good thing, a beautiful thing, why would you be offended by the truth?”

“You think you’re entitled to be beautiful or to be regarded as beautiful, no matter how you look, no matter what you do with your body? And once such words lose their meaning, because there’s no such thing as ugliness then, what would these empty praises mean for you?”

“If everyone’s beautiful, smart, strong, etc. no matter what, then all these words become meaningless, all praises become meaningless, they don’t discriminate one quality over another, they don’t say anything or signify anything of value.”

“All you’ve accomplished is to destroy our language, destroy our tool to express the reality, you haven’t changed the reality at all, because there’ll still be beautiful people as well as ugly people no matter how much you pretend otherwise, no matter how much you lie.”

“Actually, you didn’t even succeed at destroying our language except in your circle of idiots, because the rest of us know, because we refuse to follow, refuse to accept your idiotic, entitled narcissism and manipulation.”

“You cry for the easy life, for easy praise and accomplishment, for all blessings and rights with none of the responsibility, none of the work, all the fame without the substance, all the wealth without contributing anything, you want everything while giving nothing.”

“You complain of having to watch what you eat, of staying fit, even when it’s your job to look good, why not complain of having to study to ace a test, having to practice to become a pianist, having to think to become a philosopher, having to climb to reach the top?”

“So you think you’ll change reality with your propaganda, call everyone beautiful, call everyone a genius, call everyone a winner, and they’ll become one. How is it working out for you? Have we got rid of all the ugly, all the stupid, all the losers?”

“Who thought it was a good idea, that you could feed this garbage to everyone through your mainstream media propaganda machines and have it believed without question? You rail against the stupid dogmas in the world, yet you come up with the dumbest ones.”

“If beauty is subjective, if it’s ‘in the eye of the beholder’ as they say, then if I don’t find obesity beautiful, I’m right automatically because it is subjective to me, you have no grounds to protest, to argue. If you’re upset by that, you’re upset by the truth.”

“If you’re trying to control what I find beautiful, fuck you, that’s none of your business, you don’t get to control that any more than I get to control what you find beautiful. That’s what manipulative narcissistic assholes do which the left has become.”

“And why would you want people to perceive obesity as beautiful? Such an unhealthy, miserable, sad existence. What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you want everyone to be this miserable? Are you that bothered by some hurt feelings?”

“If someone doesn’t like my art, I don’t criticize their taste even if their taste is horrible, no one has any moral obligation to find anything or anyone beautiful, it’s not a moral issue at all, only entitled assholes would take offense which, again, the left has become.”

“As long as you espouse this ‘beauty is subjective’ crap, you have no right to complain of my judgment of your ugliness because I’m automatically right, because it is subjective to me and my standards, whatever they are, so my judgment is not up for debate.”

“If you say it’s not nice to judge this way, yes, if I were to judge a random stranger, but if you put yourself out there, on a magazine, on a TV show, obviously hoping for approval, you deserve whatever judgments because you asked for it.”

“If you don’t want to be judged on your looks, don’t put yourself on the cover of a magazine. If you don’t want to be judged on your views, don’t express yourself where others can hear. Otherwise, it’s fair game, there’s no ‘safe space’ in the real world, that’s just censorship.”

“The only way you wouldn’t deserve the judgment is if someone lies, if someone indeed finds you beautiful but lies for whatever reason, but then you’d need a reason to believe they’re lying, which is ridiculous in the case of obesity, most people do not find obesity beautiful.”

“Given that, the only reason you’d put an obese model on a magazine cover is for political propaganda, to manipulate people into feeling guilty for even just thinking, if not saying outright, that she’s not beautiful, what a fucking piece of shit you are!”

“No it’s not nice to say these things, that someone’s ugly, but you leave people no choice but to say such things or lie or stay silent as if your manipulation worked, which makes honesty the only morally acceptable response.”

“And you pounce on them for being honest, calling them fat-phobic, calling them all kinds of names for being mean, when you’re the assholes that invited such judgments. Well, if you can’t handle the truth, if you can’t handle the answer, stop asking!”

“What did you expect really? For everyone to lie like these cowardly, woke assholes, err liberals? For everyone to stay silent at this obviously manipulative spectacle? Did you really expect no one to be courageous enough to speak the truth?”

“And when someone does speak the truth, you crucify them with your lies, with your idiotic rhetoric, with your sick ideology, just like the entitled, manipulative, dishonest, narcissistic assholes you are.”

“I remember seeing a documentary by Katie Couric long ago that shows how the food industry has put sugar into everything, in great amounts, that began the obesity epidemic, and how addictive sugar is, much more so than any hard drug.”

“So I get that the food industry wants to hide this or at least normalize this with their ‘body positivity’ propaganda, pretending that they’re campaigning for ‘tolerance’ and ‘acceptance’ even as they lie to your face that it’s not unhealthy when everyone knows otherwise.”

“Even calling the experts (doctors) ‘fat-phobic’ when they tell the truth, this is what manipulative narcissists do, gaslighting, controlling, manipulating your emotions, and I guess the left fell for it or got bribed to become their shills which is even worse.”

“Even got the democrats, the party of ‘tolerance,’ to oppose free speech (what a coup!) all in the name of being nice, inoffensive, when really they just want to control your speech, control the information, hide the fact that they’re greedy, dishonest, narcissistic assholes.”

“But of course, this is just a conspiracy theory, right? I’m the problem, I’m the bigot, the racist, the whatever-phobe, it’s never your fault, it’s always everyone else that’s the problem, you’re the victim and everyone else who disagrees is the oppressor.”

a monologue about social, political, and moral philosophy cleverly disguised as a dialogue between me and my imaginary daughter Annie: first, next.