Saying that Hilary Duff--looking hot as hell on the cover of SI--isn't skinny practically comes across as negging from this chick. She's obviously skinny, she's just not *frail*. Frailty is the aesthetic that we are seeing more and more amongst celebrities, a look that is typically only seen in individuals north of 70. When women can look skinny and not frail, we love it! I appreciate the behest that we just be real about this.
The body positivity discourse should never have been about skinny/fat. It should always be around the fact that humans have bodies and bodies and exist and there is not much preoccupation required on that. Your body is a vessel for you to exist and live. And you train it in ways required to make life better for you.
I exercise because it is the one hour I get to focus on just one thing (my lifting form) in my entire day. It is a much needed breaking away from working from home all day.
You always have the most sane perspective on body image and beauty standards.
Despite people wanting body positivity to be a more mainstream accepted standard people‘s desire to be skinny has never changed. I don’t see this as if it’s a good or bad thing because there are good and bad reasons to want to be smaller, but I think people still haven’t figured out how to understand that these conflicting desires haven’t ever left us.
It also does feel like fitness / beauty influencers, who talk about body image are being dishonest about who represents the beauty standard. Because if a person who is very very small (but with muscles!) and , conventionally attractive is pointing at someone who’s looks “scarily” thin as the new body standard, It feels like it’s a deflecting tactic to avoid being categorized as one of the people who uphold that beauty standard.
Hilary Duff has had lipo so it's kinda crazy to me that she's being lauded as this healthy version of thin. We should not be upholding any of these people as some kind of role model
I completely agree. It’s exhausting trying to decipher who has had work done and who hasn’t and whether or not they should be praised for how they look. All gives me a headache!
i recently saw a skinny influencer i follow post a bikini pic, but she had abs, so she added a caption about how she was *strong* despite all the current skinny propaganda... i was like wait, but you're also skinny lol
Saying that Hilary Duff--looking hot as hell on the cover of SI--isn't skinny practically comes across as negging from this chick. She's obviously skinny, she's just not *frail*. Frailty is the aesthetic that we are seeing more and more amongst celebrities, a look that is typically only seen in individuals north of 70. When women can look skinny and not frail, we love it! I appreciate the behest that we just be real about this.
The body positivity discourse should never have been about skinny/fat. It should always be around the fact that humans have bodies and bodies and exist and there is not much preoccupation required on that. Your body is a vessel for you to exist and live. And you train it in ways required to make life better for you.
I exercise because it is the one hour I get to focus on just one thing (my lifting form) in my entire day. It is a much needed breaking away from working from home all day.
Great article. The Ladder commercial bothered me, but I couldn’t put my finger on why. I like stronger! But you got it 🎯
You always have the most sane perspective on body image and beauty standards.
Despite people wanting body positivity to be a more mainstream accepted standard people‘s desire to be skinny has never changed. I don’t see this as if it’s a good or bad thing because there are good and bad reasons to want to be smaller, but I think people still haven’t figured out how to understand that these conflicting desires haven’t ever left us.
It also does feel like fitness / beauty influencers, who talk about body image are being dishonest about who represents the beauty standard. Because if a person who is very very small (but with muscles!) and , conventionally attractive is pointing at someone who’s looks “scarily” thin as the new body standard, It feels like it’s a deflecting tactic to avoid being categorized as one of the people who uphold that beauty standard.
Hilary Duff has had lipo so it's kinda crazy to me that she's being lauded as this healthy version of thin. We should not be upholding any of these people as some kind of role model
I completely agree. It’s exhausting trying to decipher who has had work done and who hasn’t and whether or not they should be praised for how they look. All gives me a headache!
i recently saw a skinny influencer i follow post a bikini pic, but she had abs, so she added a caption about how she was *strong* despite all the current skinny propaganda... i was like wait, but you're also skinny lol
Those people are the worst lmao. fake team players I call them