It truly is frightening how a whole generation of women have warped themselves to fit some bizarre new agenda that calls body positivity everything but caring for the body you have. It's not about pandering to the equally toxic male gaze or unrealistic expectations set by porn and media, it's about taking care of the one home you'll ever have: your body.
That's the irony of this.
With the younger ones, is is absolutely about appealing to the male gaze and being utterly, unhealthily obsessed with beauty. It's a really shallow obsession, even for their age group which is the most concerned demographically with chasing sexual approval. They're to a woman enraged at not being considered the top tier beauties and this applies especially to the ones who lucked out being born with genuinely pretty faces, like Tess when she was younger. Their narcissistic personalities cannot take the fact tthey qualify in one area (face) and fail horribly in another (body) and it is ttheir own fault. They want to be seen as desireable, chased by hotties and employed as models with having to change and work for itt. Everything revolves around demanding that their morbidly obese bodies be viewed as beauiful and desireable by both males and fellow females and if you balk at that, you're a fascist, a haydur and a bigot.
Any good fitness insructor will tell you it's, in the long term, not what your body looks like, but what your body can DO. Fitness means ability to do stuff regardless of current, often utterly arbitrary beauty standards. Cardiovascular fitness is not concerned with the size of your bum or you boobs or whether you have a currently fashionable shape whether that means a giant bum and a small waist or the juvenile-looking, boobless and bumless waif shit during he 90s. Having a healthy fat percentage and BMI looks different on everyone, but lack of cardiovascular fitness, carrying too much fat and having too litle msucle mass leads over time to decreasing physical ability to do everyday things.
We get the moron end of FAs like Ragen Chastain trying to prove you can be 'fit and fat' and do stuff (and failing, horribly) but most of the women and girls in this movement, the fatter they get, stop even pretending to workout. They end up chronically sick and practically housebound and that's when the truly crazy ideological lunacy starts, like with Ash. Feeder involvement even at this stage just shows that in the end, it's wanting ttt be considered desirable that is at the root of this lunacy. It's pathetically sad and enraging that this crap is currenly offered to girls as some kind of empowerful alterantive to being a shallow appearance-obsessed thing. because in the final analysis, it's no different and just as if not more destructive.