• dropped_packet@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    There a vast amount of space between unhealthy physique and the unrealistic beauty standards in media.

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      4 hours ago

      I’ve met people far more beautiful than most you can see in mainstream media, let alone adult materials.

      (And in case one bitch with ASPD is stalking me, no, I don’t mean her ; that is, this is true for her too.)

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      14 hours ago

      There is also a vast amount of space between a normal human body and the bodies that most Americans now have. That has nothing to do with the unrealistic beauty standards in media (which is also a thing)

      Obesity is bad, and it annoys me when people start defending it as being beautiful. It’s not, it will kill you in loads of unpleasant ways.

      Get healthy, exercise, eat less, eat less sugars

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        13 hours ago

        Nobody in the thread above mentioned obesity. Nobody is saying you have to be attracted to obese people. Or disputing that it’s unhealthy.

        It remains true that there is a lot of space between this extreme and the extreme portrayed in media. Body weight is not the only standard, it’s one of many.