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‘Body Positivity’ Movement Making American Women Fatter Than Ever

Amanda Prestigiacomo
‘Body Positivity’ Movement Making American Women Fatter Than Ever

Over the past few years, social justice warriors have turned up the heat on their mission to make a highly unhealthy female body image into society’s new normal. They’ve sported #FatPride hashtags, endlessly blogged about the heroics of being overweight, castigated all male dissenters as sexist and branded female dissenters as internalized misogynists with a fondness for “fat shaming” their peers.

Meanwhile, the hypothesis of many conservatives that the so-called “body positivity” movement would end with some seriously harmful results for women came to fruition: American women are now fatter than ever, thanks in large part to social justice warriors.

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