{"id":1772517,"date":"2022-12-12T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772517"},"modified":"2022-12-12T13:03:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T18:03:11","slug":"ulta-beauty-is-encouraging-women-to-be-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ulta-beauty-is-encouraging-women-to-be-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulta Beauty Is Encouraging Women To Be Fat"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fulta-beauty-is-encouraging-women-to-be-fat%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=1772517&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>Ulta Beauty is getting on board with the pro-fat movement. <\/p>\n<p>In September, the women\u2019s cosmetics company inaugurated its \u201cBeauty Of\u2026\u201d podcast with a half-hour interview featuring Virgie Tovar, an author and activist who promotes the pro-fat movement under the guise of \u201cbody positivity.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBeauty Of\u2026\u201d Podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/introducing-the-beauty-of\/id1646261775?i=1000580196167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to its host, celebrity hairstylist David Lopez, is a podcast that hosts the \u201cdreamers and visionaries pushing our ideas of beauty forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/19\/ulta-beauty-is-just-the-latest-big-buisness-to-see-dollars-signs-in-pushing-gender-identity-trends-on-minorsulta-beauty-is-just-the-latest-big-business-to-see-dollars-signs-in-pushing-gender-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ulta Beauty Is Just The Latest Big Business To See Dollars Signs In Pushing Gender-Bending On Minors<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lopez and Tovar started off their conversation with an honest reflection on their own insecurities, breaking down the emotional roller coasters that overweight young people face as they grow old enough to be conscious of their own appearances. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou emanate joy,\u201d Lopez says to Tovar at the top of the interview, and she does. Her oversized glasses \u2014 tinted pink, topped with bangs, and complemented by low-hanging earrings so big they can\u2019t be missed \u2014 express a colorful and charismatic yet confident activist who\u2019s not afraid to show some vulnerability to make her point. <\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cFor me, fatphobia, which is a form of bigotry against higher-weight people, is what took me out of my body,\u201d Tovar said of her own experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce I learned fatphobia, I had a sense of \u2018this is my body, and this is me,&#8217;\u201d Tovar added. \u201cThere was a separation, and when I was a kid, those two things weren\u2019t separate ever. They were one and the same, and I think the truth is that was all of us on some level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But she also probably appears confident and comfortable in her own skin because she\u2019s written a book to justify obesity. Most obese people aren\u2019t comfortable, and they\u2019re usually not comfortable with their obesity for good reason. Because <em>being <\/em>obese isn\u2019t comfortable. Try going on a walk wearing an extra 100 pounds in weight and see if you\u2019re comfortable. <\/p>\n<p>Tovar goes on to break down so-called \u201cfatphobia\u201d in greater detail, explaining how \u201c\u2018fat activism\u2019 is sort of the response to \u2018fat phobia.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact,\u201d she says, \u201cfat phobia is an actual legitimate form of discrimination. It aligns with other types of discrimination, like around race or gender, or, you know, or any number of marginalized identities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the problem with \u201cfat activism\u201d is that its message is one of apathy and helplessness on the most pressing <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/01\/our-failure-to-grapple-with-the-obesity-epidemic-pumps-diabetes-crisis-to-new-heights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public health crisis<\/a> of our time. Tovar says this herself (emphasis ours): <\/p>\n[\u2018Fat activism\u2019 is] essentially kind of an intersectional politic that looks at \u2018fat phobia\u2019 and says \u2018this is wrong, <strong>there\u2019s nothing wrong with being fat<\/strong>, this is totally a natural part of body diversity. Yes fat people have thriving, wonderful, beautiful lives, yes fat people are desirable and absolutely fat people should be protected from things like medical discrimination and the wage gap.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing wrong with being fat so long as there\u2019s nothing wrong with being unhealthy,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If &#8216;fatphobia&#8217; means keeping in place a healthy stigma against excess weight, then we need a little bit more of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1772520,"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":[3865,5862,8162,6919,8161,5605],"class_list":["post-1772517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-beauty","tag-encouraging","tag-fat","tag-federalist","tag-ulta","tag-women"],"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\/1772517","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}