We all know that we live in a deeply fatphobic society. Netflix's recent America’s Next Top Model documentary took us back to the early 2000s when it was considered appropriate to scold young, impressionable women for not having perfectly flat stomachs, with Tyra Banks telling one of the already very thin contestants that she should “watch what she eats”. It’s not an overstatement to say that body positivity didn’t really exist in the 2000s. But in the 2010s, we witnessed what I would now describe as a flawed but radical movement towards body positivity.
This movement was not perfect, as Lindsay King-Miller wrote for Bitch in 2014: “Today’s body positivity focuses too much on affirming beauty and not enough on deconstructing its...
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