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big_al_the_riddler

 This is like saying Prozac crippled the mental health awareness movement lol, wtf are you talking about bro
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It’s amazing how fast Ozempic crippled the body positivity movement.
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Anonymous 3w

No I get what OP is saying. I don’t think Ozempic is the cause of it but we really are back to ads basically just telling women that they’re ugly and fat being normalized. Not to mention they now exclusively feature thin beautiful women. The new Gap ad with Katseye (which conservatives are calling woke, look how that Overton window has shifted!) would have included all different types of bodies 5 years ago.

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Anonymous 3w

I think there’s a meaningful difference. Psychiatric meds are used to help people with mental health issues, while ozempic has gone beyond its original purpose as diabetes medication to be used as a weight loss drug for people who don’t even really need to lose weight

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

It’s not your determination as to who needs to lose weight, you don’t choose the severity of a person’s condition in the same way you wouldn’t determine a depressed person’s necessity to take Prozac. Regardless, a product that can help address an issue doesn’t negate the idea that a society can still tolerate and not shame those suffering from the issue, which is what the body positive and mental health awareness movements are based on

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Anonymous replying to -> big_al_the_riddler 3w

They got Serena Williams doing GLP-1 ads are we serious

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Okay? Again, a drugs existence doesn’t mean that a movement intended to promote acceptance of those suffering from an illness that drug treats is negated. I’m not even trying to defend or criticize ozempic or Prozac as a product, I’m just outlining that their existence doesn’t debase the core values of those movements lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

The goal of the body positivity movement was for people to accept and love a body that they cannot change, and change societal attitudes. Ozempic gave people the option to change their body to conform. The same goes for plastic surgery, which has unsurprisingly exploded in popularity. When changing your body is much easier than changing the culture people are going to abandon body positivity. So yes, I think there’s a case for saying that Ozempic was complicit in the death of body positivity.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 3w

I agree with most of what you’re saying, but I do not think that the body positivity movement was just for accepting bodies that cannot change. I believe the goal of the movement was that while people should strive to be their healthiest selves possible, a person should not have their value or worth as a person be determined by weight. That ideology can and should persist with or without ozempic, particularly when you consider that people who CANT change their weight, such as people with…

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Anonymous replying to -> big_al_the_riddler 3w

…thyroid issues, often cannot take ozempic. They don’t have access to that “option for conformity.” Again, I’m not trying to defend or criticize ozempic here, and I do believe that the body positivity movement has regressed, but I don’t think the existence of drugs like that negates the core values and principles of the body positivity movement.

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