This is a great way of explaining why I hate body positivity so much (I’m very glad body neutrality is becoming more of a thing). I’m so tired of people telling me to love the broken shell I inhabit, or telling me that it’s beautiful. Fuck that.
That is interesting. I have a friend with body dismorphia. I think there are different kinds of body dismorphia, and in his case, I trully do not think it represents reality. He is muscular, gym kind of physique, but he hates a certain part of it. I love the part that he hates, and I express it often. I wonder if I am doing the wrong thing? Should I be doing something else?
Oh, sure, I agree with that, 100%. But when he tells me "I hate my X, look at them, so bad", it feels wrong to just say "Oh, you should love yourself, not your body".
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Repelle@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
This is a great way of explaining why I hate body positivity so much (I’m very glad body neutrality is becoming more of a thing). I’m so tired of people telling me to love the broken shell I inhabit, or telling me that it’s beautiful. Fuck that.
beSyl@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y
That is interesting. I have a friend with body dismorphia. I think there are different kinds of body dismorphia, and in his case, I trully do not think it represents reality. He is muscular, gym kind of physique, but he hates a certain part of it. I love the part that he hates, and I express it often. I wonder if I am doing the wrong thing? Should I be doing something else?
Johanno@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y
He should love himself not his body.
beSyl@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y
Oh, sure, I agree with that, 100%. But when he tells me "I hate my X, look at them, so bad", it feels wrong to just say "Oh, you should love yourself, not your body".
Johanno@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y
Well don't say it like that. Maybe ask him if it changes who he is.
pigup@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
warm ice cream
anonionfinelyminced@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y
At that point, it's just cream.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 2y
Not a socialist.
rewarp@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 2y
Good point. I will probably buy an ice-cream machine just to do this.
Okay okay so maybe being vegan and being forced to pay like 10 times the price of ice-cream where I live has something to do with it too.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 3 pts · 2y
Ice cream is cold tho
stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 2y
it warms the heart
Lordbaum@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 2y
Oh that's why we do global warming