{"id":1709833,"date":"2022-10-25T08:03:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T12:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709833"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:03:55","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T12:03:55","slug":"the-body-positivity-movement-is-at-odds-with-human-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-body-positivity-movement-is-at-odds-with-human-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Body Positivity\u2019 Movement Is At Odds With Human Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-body-positivity-movement-is-at-odds-with-human-nature%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709833&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cSelf-acceptance influencer\u201d Alex Light made waves this past week after posting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@alexlight_ldn\/video\/7153306886568267014?is_copy_url=1&#038;is_from_webapp=v1&#038;refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TikTok<\/a> lauding actor Channing Tatum for his <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/body-positivity-campaigner-explains-why-144116379.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cbody positive\u201d comments on \u201cThe Kelly Clarkson Show.\u201d<\/a> Light thanked Tatum for admitting that maintaining his toned physique for the \u201cMagic Mike\u201d films \u201cis not natural,\u201d and is not something he recommends that other men aspire to.<\/p>\n<p>The emergence of the \u201cbody positivity\u201d movement is the latest offshoot of the therapeutic, moralistic mentality that has a hold in bourgeois <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2019\/06\/back-row-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cfront row\u201d society<\/a>. The discourse that has emerged from this movement \u2014 with a ubiquity that has expanded astronomically since my childhood \u2014 is tinged with the flavor of the \u201ccharacter education\u201d that I received in public schools in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>According to my elementary and middle school teachers, the elusive boogeyman known as \u201csociety\u201d wants us to think that in order to be happy, we need a successful job, nice clothes, an attractive body, lots of friends, and expensive material possessions. But a <em>truly <\/em>happy person doesn\u2019t need any of those superficial things. All they need is to be themselves, follow their hearts, be kind to others, and embrace their inner beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their insistent moral exhortations, I couldn\u2019t deny my attraction to the glamorous lifestyles of celebrities. As I flipped through the pages of tabloid magazines, I dreamed about ways to boost my popularity. I stared into the mirror, fixating on what I wore and how I could make my body more attractive. As I took selfies, I schemed obsessively about how I could build up my Facebook profile \u2026 while the echo of my teachers saying \u201cit\u2019s who you are on the inside that counts\u201d ran through my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I knew all of these pursuits were superficial, but why, I wondered, couldn\u2019t I stop dwelling on them? No matter how many times I told myself that my appearance and Facebook friend count didn\u2019t define my worth, I never was fully convinced that this was true.<\/p>\n<p>As time went on, I started to realize that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/opinion\/guest-voices\/confessions-weird-catholic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">something was missing<\/a>. This \u201cmoral battle\u201d was not as simplistic as I thought it was. It was made to seem that it all came down to a matter of merely <em>choosing <\/em>to either believe in your \u201cinner\u201d self-worth or to buy into society\u2019s superficial standards. What was missing from all these moral imperatives was an ontological frame of reference. A way to make sense of my selfhood\u2019s origin and destiny.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Put more simply, what was missing were answers to certain fundamental questions about our desires, our bodies, and human nature more broadly: What does it mean to be human? What is the purpose of our bodies? Why do I desire to be loved? Where does desire come from in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>The more I started to ask these questions, the more I was able to delve more deeply into my \u201csuperficial\u201d preoccupations, rather than to moralize futilely over them: Why do so many of us want to be rich and live a glamorous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Either we will seek to consume vain, temporary forms of beauty or a form of beauty that both encompasses and surpasses the temporary ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1394,"featured_media":1709836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}