Anonymous #2 4w

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 #2 4w

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 big_al_the_riddler 4w

…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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