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Why Someone's Weight Matters So Much

#bodypositivity#asianfeatures#beautystandards#embrace#obese
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0:00 [Music] what's the best way to be body positive body positive o the I know that there's a whole joke about it but I don't really know what is it like honestly I love the curves that you just put on o i okay I have an answer so in the line of body positivity in in the scope right when you see these like like a like a Health Magazine and the models like full 400 lb and they just all fat and they're just like body positive is that on this side of it or this side is that is that the I think that's called tripping I think it's closer okay there you go closer to the end but then like but then there has to be like where where as that feels like it's an overshoot into the freaking cuckoo Zone

0:50 there's got to be like a good zone of being B positive I think it would be like let's say you're 4' 5 uh-huh 4' five yeah you're 4 fo 5 right so like you're like so we're going to start crazy already so like so so the way I see body positivity is work with what you got so like you're 4' five and it's pretty ████ hard to be 6 feet it's pretty impossible right cuz you could get the extended surgery but that only adds like about 5 in or some ████ right doesn't add much maybe three SL it cost a lot so you're going to go from 4' 5 to 5T okay that's a big deal for people 4 by the way that's huge anyways I don't think the

1:40 sear is that good but I get confused because I think like so like I always see guys and girls kind of go back and forth at this and I was like they're talking about two different things when it comes to one is like what is what is beauty standards or what is attractable what is attractive right guys are just basing it on like is she hot or is she made that's what guys are thinking but I think from women it's completely different like I it's a it's a different rating system cuz girls be G like gassing each other up like yo Liz's so hot she has so much confidence and then they have this running joke where it's like but you call you Call any girl lizzle to get mad the same girl that goes but she's beautiful lizzo's so confident she's so

2:31 hot I want to I love her ████ you know and then you go yeah and you look like her and they'll be like ████ you right and I'm that confused the ████ out of me and like correct me if I'm wrong so I asked Hannah about this right and she goes she was like huh women are are are looking at like what is an attractive trait like different aspects of it it's not just like the way men would see it is would I just stick my dick in her so it's a different criteria it's a package Hannah is very eloquent and I was like okay well if you put it that way that makes sense but you know when you watch those shows right where girls are just getting ████ slam Dunked On by like nerds oh like like whatever podcast yeah like that right and I'm looking and I'm like can't you see they're talking about two different things like the women are talk like when

3:21 they rate themselves they're talking about how they feel about themselves like give yourself a Score 1 to 10 yeah and then and then there's this like 10 right yeah there's like a 10 out of 10 right and then all the girls would be like ████ yeah ████ yeah ████ yeah right and then the guys would just be like are you ████ crazy you're like a three and they're like how dare you call me a you're right they're talking about two different scales yeah he's saying yeah like and then and then Hannah's like they're not framing the question where the girls would understand it she says that they need to frame it in the way where it's like in today's Beauty standard um to a male's attractivity like to what the male sees what on a scale from 1 to 10 how do you rate yourself and then you ask the

4:12 question what is that beauty standard they list X Y and Z and then you can scale it right but then the but then the girls if you just tell them on a rail from on a rate from 1 to 10 what are you and they're like oh I feel like a 10 because I have confidence and I'm and I'm and I'm not going to put myself down you look at it like I what I have to offer is a 10 like to your life MH yeah yeah and then so I'm like when these things come up it's just they're not they're not using the same ruler so the body talk positivity thing I think it's the same thing it's like people are cuz it doesn't apply to guys if you notice right you don't have the same body positivity for men we don't get the same kind of fairness or or the thing like but it's it's for women and they're trying

5:02 to celebrate from fat girls short girls dark girls light girl whatever are they just trying to block depression is that what it is block depression cuz like you said even in the like the dove campaign or whatever if you pick any one of the girls and you're like oh that looks like you yeah you're going to get different lines of offense from different people like they're not going to like that but they are going to tell you all of them are beautiful and they're all tens so that is true like right once you tell them that they look like that yeah and I guess I guess some of the true some of the some of the ISS completely diffuse that argum I didn't come up with that but that's the the whole rep guys they came up with that ████ and I'm like that's so funny that's actually kind of funny I think in our nation specifically some of the issue comes from like what we promote kind of

5:52 like the the idealism it comes from representation so like you go into like the Victoria Secrets fashion trail that where started having like you know not your typical like Victoria Secret Angels because they wanted to have representation and then that ended up turning into like poor Marketing in sales for like that quarter or whatever the ████ you know what I mean that line um and the idealism is that you want everybody to feel represented but then there's the inverse of it where like Bart saying you're tripping if you put on like a Women's Health magazine or men tell somebody who's just full-on obese because you want to be like body positivity like embrace and what you are and you're like well the inverse is like that's poor health and you're probably going to have really really bad health problems in the near future and the second you say that this is okay is the second you let other people who feel

6:43 represented by that feel like it's okay to stay in that like position of non-health you know what I mean so then it just is a question representation is overcorrected yeah we we also just need to think about what the idealisms are for like what we should have as a standard for ourselves it's not to say cuz it's also the other way around too not just body body positivity but like you know like now every guy needs to feel like they need to have a ████ eight pack otherwise you're not like an attractive person you want talk about ████ unrealistic you want to talk about unrealistic ████ expectations look at a Marvel movie all guys got to ████ we got to look like that come on man yeah so it's just everything's super extreme on both ends and it's like the second we go back to maybe a more realistic place where people should feel like they need to be a little bit more healthy and on the other side people

7:34 don't have to be superheroes that might be a healthier Society but like because one side's too far here one side's too far here it becomes a polarizing issue in every context of conversation with different people having different measurements I think yeah everything is like what you said about it's going to the extreme right so like there was a time when there was a beauty standard of let's say uh straight hair so like M black people would always flatten and straighten their hair cuz they feel like what they have naturally is ugly there was you know there was that time and era and now this might be the over correction of now I'm just going to embrace the natural right but then it gets to the point of someone's obese and that's unhealthy and that's not natural to any race but now they're they're on

8:25 my Lage right so then now they're like well I'm going to embrace what I am but then that's going too far it's like no you're using it as an excuse not make a change yeah I think that's I think that's when body positivity gets cuz like let's say um if there was a time when Asian features were not the thing like whatever right and then like let's say K-pop gets really popular now Asian features are but before that like let's say people that had Asian features would be like man I wish I don't know I wish I look black or like I wish I look like somebody else cuz that's what's popular at the time wish I had double eyelids yeah or yeah whatever and I think that's kind of the over correction stuff right now right like you have too many of these different conversations going on

9:15 where some people come from cultures that are colorist like they always are like well default I'm dark so I'm ugly and I'll never be good-looking right where other cultures are trying to get a tan because they're like that's what's hot yeah cuz I'm too washed out right so I mean like I don't think it's one conversation it's like lot of noise yeah so you have some legit some trying to break a barrier and you have some that's just like ridiculous and it's all being thrown into one thing that's true yeah yeah I like I like what Joe said in the beginning where it's like it's it's a work with what you got situation you know what I mean like if it's a hey thing like yeah be positive of what you got cuz you can't really change that if it's hair thing your hair is naturally this like of course you should totally Embrace what is natural if it's like a thing where that's not

10:06 natural the natural average of obesity in America supersedes any other ████ Nation the whole planet UK's UK is gaining on us yeah I think UK's top dog right now yeah that's what confuses me cuz obesity is not natural you have to work to become obese yeah like that should not be something that's super embraced especially to a point where if you like comment on it in a seemingly like neutral Manner and then you get shamed for it because you aren't like extremely like on one side of using the right syntax to describe what that is and love thyself type ████ then I think we're ████ as a society cuz we're also that same society that like is now hella profiting off of OIC so it's like what the ████ is the right you know what I mean right that's true my favorite uh proponent of body positivity right now is that one chick that uh played rugby

10:56 for the American team you guys know what I'm talking about uh-uh so she's like pretty stocky and I would say like in terms of the like what we find at like traditional beauty standards for a lady like she is definitely outside of it but she's a professional athlete so she's not obese she's not like unhealthy right she's just who she is with god-given gifts and if you ever see her play on the field she just straight muls people but what what I really love about her is she just embraced what she has she knows she doesn't fit into the traditional norms and to most people she's way more on the masculine end but on on her IG page she Embraces her femininity like crazy is it Alona Mar I forgot her name but she always wears lipstick that one yeah and I think she's super dope because she doesn't even talk about body

11:47 positive she lives it like this is I'm like 510 200 lb broad shoulders but I'm a woman and I embrace that woman part side of me I know I don't fit into normal beauty standards but I'm going to ████ crush it and I do whatever I like to do like I like wearing a dress as much as I like ████ knocking people the ████ out and she just does both yeah that's true it's like bri Brianna of tth for itself yeah and she does she doesn't say anything about it she just lives it and so now I think that's true representation cuz and if you are like a stocky ████ you're like dude she's ████ dope I relate to her and she represents me you know yeah yeah like Brianna of par yeah like she doesn't have to say ████ part's motivational speeches always like who we're back up oh turbulence did I hear that did I hear

12:37 that right the 2009 housing bubble in there yeah it's full of backhanded compliments dude yeah [Applause]

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