“The brands previously thought you should feel one way about yourself, and now they have decided that’s no longer appropriate for their goals. How you talk about yourself should change, even if nothing has changed that would materially affect how you feel.”— Amanda Mull, racked.comTagged: Body Positivity, Woke Capitalism, Bodies
“What none of this addresses, of course, is why someone might hate their body. There is no inherent unhappiness to womanhood, or to fatness, or to blackness, or to anything else that American beauty standards have long treated as a problem. The conditions under which we loathe ourselves are socially…”— Amanda Mull, racked.comTagged: Body Positive, Psychology, How To Think
“These companies, with all their resources and reach and ability to manipulate public opinion, have done something they do frequently: They’ve conflated identifying a problem with solving it, and if we let ourselves be convinced these issues are headed in the right direction and our problems really a…”— Amanda Mull, racked.comTagged: Body Positive, How To Think