Why Does Body Positivity Now Equate To Exposing Your Body To Strangers Online?
The body positivity that is currently propped up by mainstream culture and the media is a movement that is almost unrecognizable from the original self-love campaign we saw emerge a couple decades ago. What once started as accepting your natural figure and stretch marks has turned into a race to see who can expose more of their body to strangers on the internet.
Empowerment supposedly sits at the heart of body positivity. The movement claims to help women find their self-confidence and uncover self-love that they've never been able to claim before. The rail-thin supermodel figures that ruled the 1990s were deemed unrealistic, and for good reason. While those women hit the genetic jackpot, the truth is, the majority of women in our country don't look like that, and it's unfair to make women believe that the ideal body type is Kate Moss.