Last updated on January 19th, 2021 at 10:19 am<\/p>\n
The \u201cfat versus fit\u201d debate rages on, but Cosmopolitan isn\u2019t wading into the discussion. They\u2019re going full belly-flop into the controversial subject matter, much to the detriment of the family and young impressionable women. Ms. Thorpe has 250,000 followers on her Instagram account titled \u201cThe Confidence Corner.\u201d Moreover, she is called in some corners one of social media\u2019s best-known advocates of \u201cself-love\u201d.
The February edition of the women\u2019s magazine<\/a> will feature \u201cplus-size\u201d women with the subtext \u201cThis is healthy! 11 women on why wellness doesn\u2019t have to be one-size-fits-all\u201d. The women featured range from yoga instructors to one who was slated to represent Britain at the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games.
One of them is Callie Thorpe, a social media influencer and \u201cplus size\u201d blogger, who comments that people like her \u201care trolled for being fat.\u201d She feels that by being welcomed into a community of other plus-size women, she now realizes \u201cthe importance of focusing on my mental health and addressing issues with my anxiety, and finding ways to take care of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not long ago, the term \u201cself-love\u201d was usually applied to one who displayed inflated love or pride in oneself. Today, in the world of social media, the phrase no longer intimates narcissism. And considering the facts surrounding health and wellness, one must wonder if this \u201cself-love\u201d being sold is actually self-destruction.
The culture has been familiarized with the term \u201cbody positivity,\u201d which isn\u2019t necessarily just about excess weight and being fine with it, but about celebrating bodies that don\u2019t fit conventional size norms. Many \u201cbody positivity\u201d advocates say they\u2019ve had enough of people making assumptions based on appearance, gender, or any other superficial aspect. To that point, any person who wishes true charity for his or her neighbor would agree. But how is it charitable to ignore the plain fact that excess weight is detrimental for any human being? From the effects on muscles and joints, the condition and function of our internal organs, and even from the psychological standpoint, the science on obesity is clear.
And yet, many of these social media influencers have an army of followers and advocates. The hashtag #bodypositivity<\/a> boasted some 3 million posts on Instagram in 2017. In just four years, it has ballooned to 14.8 million posts.
As Lauryn Overhultz, a columnist for The Daily Caller,<\/em> put it<\/a>: \u201cBody positivity is the euphemism woke digital netizens have adopted in recent years in order to make obesity \u2014 the leading cause of death in America \u2014 seem less pernicious, indeed even a source of pride.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n