
I hate body shaming. Even if I workout and eat healthy. I still get called fat or “need to loose weight” I see it online all the time there’s this amazing ex gymnast who’s started back and she’s plus size doing flips and bars. Getting fat hate… bitch.. I want your butt to try all that.
It was never meant to measure health tho and there’s so much research to back up that it’s a poor and inaccurate indicator of health. It was developed only measuring white men and was used as a simple statistical tool to compare populations with each other. Also you’re pathologizing body sizes instead of just using neutral descriptors like fat or thin 😭
BMI was made by a mathematician using cis white men as the scale. BMI is outdated and does not show anything of actual importance. It fails to account for the fact that women have more fat than men due to our reproductive organs and breasts. It additionally does not take into account race factors. No doctor today uses BMI as a sole indicator for healthiness, most have thrown it out completely. Because it was never made by a doctor, it was made by a racist eugenicist.
Modern BMI math has been validated since the original 1800’s study. No doctor just uses BMI as a scale. It’s still used as a screening tool because it correlates with higher risks of diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and other conditions. Doctors also consider body fat %, waist size, fitness, and lab work as well
Def not all mean it to trick but in my experience it’s been to manipulate or trick women into thinking a body type they are not into is attractive. All body types are great but it’s always to try to change your mind and it’s a double standards when that body type in a woman isn’t okay with that exact same person