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Body Liberation Tells Morbidly Obese People To Stay Fat! It’s Evil !
Spoiler Alert! No it doesn’t!
Since I embraced body liberation, I have spent a lot of time with my head in my hands. I’ve read so many misconceptions, half-truths and outright lies, and it frustrates me no end. One of the ones that riles me the most is people who insist that body liberation tells morbidly obese people to stay fat. This is flat-out wrong! Let’s correct the errors, shall we?
Body Liberation Does Not Focus On Weight
One of the reasons I moved from body positivity to body liberation is that it moves the focus away from our bodies. Body liberation encourages us to see ourselves as more than a body and focuses on everything that’s wonderful about us as people.
Are you an artist. Do you make fabulous cakes, are you kind, funny, intelligent, empathetic, and so on? all of these things are so much more important than how your body looks. Saying body liberation tells morbidly obese people to stay fat is a lie!
