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2 years ago
Lizzo represented a beacon of body positivity and acceptance in an often harsh reality. She inspired countless fat women, who don't see themselves in media, to be confident in who they are and shine. Having a fat woman be proud of her body, just out and doing her thing on stage, is not only powerful it's desperately needed. In my own life I know many people who this message has touched, and I feel for them. As Lizzo falls from grace in the eyes of many (she lost like, what, 150k followers on Insta alone?) every comment section covering the news is followed by 'I knew it' and fatphobic comments. When you push for positivity, when you push for acceptance, when you push to be a positive force, the inevitable slip up is a larger fall than any of us will ever realize.
I choose to be sympathetic towards Lizzo, though I do acknowledge the claims against her. Sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment... Again, hiring the Cosby lawyer isn't the most 'im innocent' move lmao. But what she stood for should not fall with her. Just took a DNA test, turns out I'm 100% that bitch. Feelin' good as hell. The juice ain't worth the squeeze if the juice don't look like this (like this). She's certainly certainly not the only body positive influencer out there doing kick ass work in making fat folk feel loved. But Lizzo is one of the brightest. One of the coolest. One of the realist. And I do hope she stands up from all this stronger, cause the world needs more folks like her.
I choose to be sympathetic towards Lizzo, though I do acknowledge the claims against her. Sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment... Again, hiring the Cosby lawyer isn't the most 'im innocent' move lmao. But what she stood for should not fall with her. Just took a DNA test, turns out I'm 100% that bitch. Feelin' good as hell. The juice ain't worth the squeeze if the juice don't look like this (like this). She's certainly certainly not the only body positive influencer out there doing kick ass work in making fat folk feel loved. But Lizzo is one of the brightest. One of the coolest. One of the realist. And I do hope she stands up from all this stronger, cause the world needs more folks like her.
Yet her fall from grace is just going to be used as a way to perpetuate anger at fat people and black women.
I’m glad that this is happening and that people are speaking up, and I’m hoping none of the allegations are like, fully fictitious. I really do like when people speak up about these things. I’m just upset that it is happening, and it’s happened quite a few other times this year to me on a much smaller scale. It just makes me feel unsafe anymore to enjoy things and as someone with an anxiety disorder WOWW it doesn’t help…
Thank you for letting us know, I suppose I would have found out sometime but I did go nearly the entire damn month without seeing it. It’s very scary, I forgot what my point in writing this was, blaghhhh. Thank you for listening to me though, I’m going to try to relax 💗
She made her living off of telling fat women that it's not just ok to be fat and do nothing about being unhealthy, but it's even a good thing to just not care about your health and you should make your unhealthy behavior your identity. All while calling this self destructive mindset "body positivity".
To me that's simply ghoulish.
I don't mean this as a personal attack, and I hope you don't take it that way. I don't have anything personally against you or this performer, my issue is with these efforts at body positivity which ultimately feel misguided to me and will cause more harm than good.
And you also need to consider some people who are in this community are also fat (and not everyone is trying to be fat or a gainer). It's this weird assumption that fat people for some reason don't realize that being overweight is a bad thing and has health problems? Trust us, we know. But so much about what makes being obese worse is the overall stigma to it. There's a huge assumption that if you are fat, you're some kind of emotional failure too who can't control themselves around food, or sad, or traumatized or mentally ill. There's no huge swath of obesity advocates in any level of power telling people to be fat and to disregard everything about health. I don't know why people think Lizzo's existence means there's some big conspiracy about it.
I definitely understand wanting to leave big social media though, that much attention can't be healthy for anyone's mental state