Why Is "Health At Every Size" Only Marketed And Sold To Women And Never To Men?
The meteoric rise of body positivity in the mainstream culture has convinced many women that your size doesn't relate to your health whatsoever. If you take a step back and look at the media and entertainment, though, you'll see that this message is exclusively sold to women. It makes you wonder why.
Body positivity started as a movement that encouraged women to embrace their natural figure rather than feel ashamed that they didn't fit into the size-0 mold of women we usually see on the covers of magazines. But the movement has taken a different turn in recent years. We now see women on the cover of magazines who are celebrated for being body image icons, and yet they are women who suffer from one of the most common metabolic disorders in our culture: obesity.