JustPearlyThings - Body Positivity Promotes Bad Behavior

00:00:00.000 so on today's topic we are talking about body positivity

00:00:04.000 um so my first question is just a general question

00:00:07.360 um do you think body positivity is a good thing yes or no

00:00:11.520 starting here and then go around absolutely i think

00:00:14.480 body positivity benefits everyone and it's an individual thing that you have

00:00:18.640 to cultivate within self and it manifests for other people to

00:00:22.080 perceive positive win-win all around all right

00:00:24.640 what do you think i definitely agree and i think that um

00:00:29.920 you need to be comfortable within your own body as well

00:00:32.640 and if you can be positive and love yourself then

00:00:36.240 you can you know accept everybody else as well okay

00:00:41.200 um i think it's a good thing maybe in a way um but then

00:00:45.200 if you maybe look at the health side then maybe sometimes body positivity

00:00:51.120 might not be such a good thing okay so um what do you mean by that

00:00:55.760 um just um you know i think that being body

00:01:01.520 confident you know you can come in you can come in all sorts of different

00:01:04.240 shapes and sizes but if you're at a point where

00:01:08.640 you might be at risk of certain health issues

00:01:11.920 then you have to bear that in mind that's the subject that also needs to

00:01:16.160 be incorporated into that okay what do you think um i think the word

00:01:20.320 body positivity can be used quite loosely um i think there's a lot behind it i

00:01:25.680 think it's really about becoming a better version of yourself

00:01:29.120 um and through that there are many channels

00:01:32.400 so i i do believe in it and i believe it's important

00:01:35.680 uh the self-love okay body positivity a good thing

00:01:41.280 well i mean when i look at body positivity i just see a bunch of marketing

00:01:44.400 directors getting together and be like how can we trick people into over

00:01:47.200 consuming and label it as something nice so

00:01:53.440 i'm a big proponent of having good mental health

00:01:56.960 and i think that you can't have good mental health

00:02:00.080 if you're sitting around thinking of yourself in a negative way

00:02:03.520 and definitely in regards to your body right you can't sit 0.70

00:02:07.280 there all day looking in the mirror and being like i'm disgusting 0.66

00:02:10.480 i'm this i'm that because that's just going to wreak havoc on your

00:02:14.320 psychological health however i also do believe that

00:02:18.240 it is up to us individuals because there are certain biological components of

00:02:21.840 life that are irrefutably true in regards to maintaining a healthy body

00:02:25.600 weight and i think that in my personal opinion

00:02:29.440 everybody should strive to be as best as possible

00:02:33.360 a life of self-improvement and being physically fit

00:02:36.480 is one of many components of that but i don't think

00:02:39.280 i think the body positivity thing is not this nice thing that they're putting

00:02:44.480 it out to be i think there's a nefarious agenda behind it

00:02:47.440 which is just like yeah over consume yeah you can do whatever you want

00:02:50.720 this kind of yolo lifestyle but people are starting to wake up to the fact that

00:02:54.800 like especially with the recent you know situation that happened in 2020 that we

00:02:58.240 can't even talk about without getting trouble here on youtube

00:03:02.000 but i think a lot of people became more health conscious about that

00:03:04.960 at that time so i think you know these corporations

00:03:09.200 corporations and governments they never have your best interests at heart

00:03:13.680 it's always in the in their interest and their interest is more power and more

00:03:18.240 control directly over you so when i hear body

00:03:22.000 positivity like i get it you shouldn't hate yourself

00:03:24.800 like and men have body positivity issues like men men women they both look at

00:03:28.800 the mirror like they want to be better than they are

00:03:30.720 and it's a struggle as a human but i do think that

00:03:34.640 overall the body positivity movement i think on the surface level

00:03:38.320 it looks good but i think behind it it's not what they're saying it is

00:03:43.200 that's my short answer the subject body positivity is actually

00:03:48.240 really personal to me because i'm someone who i always like to treat

00:03:54.880 people nicely and i treat people well and my size unfortunately always like

00:04:02.880 people would just be rude to me or disrespect me

00:04:06.800 i am 21 stones now the biggest i've been is 28 stones

00:04:12.080 and um i've had loads of like things happen to me in my life

00:04:17.920 so body positivity for me is just accepting the way you look

00:04:26.080 the way the way we were made and that's how i see

00:04:31.680 body positivity now people have different definitions

00:04:35.040 some people think body positivity is changing your body

00:04:39.520 um which is fine changing your body but some people think that

00:04:42.800 then like basically they express how they're unhappy with their body which is

00:04:48.240 fine but then um they say their body positive

00:04:51.920 by changing their bodies but for me it's just really

00:04:55.680 literally accepting yourself looking yourself in the mirror and saying this is

00:04:59.600 who i am this is how i've been made this is how people have seen me

00:05:03.520 my whole life and if they've been seeing me my whole life like this

00:05:07.920 i should just accept me and um yeah i'm body positive

00:05:12.080 okay so i'm just raise of hands overall body positivity good thing raise your hand

00:05:17.200 overall good thing like more good than bad okay that's what i

00:05:20.000 and she's like half okay okay so i i think body positivity is a horrible thing 0.73

00:05:25.440 i think it's trying to normalize bad habits

00:05:28.080 and i i don't think it's a good thing for society

00:05:30.960 um so i want to know why you guys disagree with that

00:05:34.960 because personally i just i just don't think i don't think we would put a

00:05:38.960 a crack addict on the cover of a magazine and in the united states

00:05:42.800 obesity is the number one killer and i just don't think it's a good thing

00:05:46.080 that we are normalizing bad habits that's my opinion on it

00:05:48.640 it's number one killer of pets too you know that no way

00:05:52.320 yep it's the number one reason animals die in america is from

00:05:55.040 obesity but yeah you guys it's yeah go ahead

00:05:58.240 well i think um i get i see where you're coming from i really do

00:06:03.200 and it's sad and with most things everything does become about

00:06:07.680 money for example i'll give you a perfect example

00:06:11.120 plus size women's it's booming all the ever all the plus size influences are

00:06:17.200 getting fun like they're getting funding or

00:06:19.680 they're being invested in but with plus size men

00:06:22.880 there's been clothes that are being sold for big men

00:06:26.000 but the models are small so again for i have a friend who did that where she like

00:06:30.720 they put on made her wear like a fat fat suit where she was actually smaller 1.00

00:06:34.640 and they made her bigger yeah they do so for that reason yeah i see exactly

00:06:39.840 where pearl is coming from because it upsets me that

00:06:42.240 it is it has become a money-making thing a kind of a trend to kind of get get in

00:06:48.240 the views and getting that but for people who actually have had issues

00:06:53.200 and with me honestly i will share my story one day but i can't share it

00:06:56.800 like until i reach my goals and and i i want to do and i think what he is saying

00:07:02.480 is spot on like they're ready to roll out the red carpet for women 1.00

00:07:06.240 yeah but it really it kind of again goes back to like that kind of nefarious

00:07:11.760 agenda of making money yeah you know because they're catering to women 1.00

00:07:15.280 because like who can name some uh plus size models right now like

00:07:21.120 tess holiday for example a huge name right

00:07:23.760 can any of you name a male plus size model my friend james corbin he's a

00:07:28.160 supermodel but james corbin is not exclusively known for being an

00:07:32.720 oversized no yes yes he's been invoked no no no no no

00:07:36.240 but he's known mainly for being a talk show host

00:07:39.840 no james corbin is a corby james if it's james corby corby james but

00:07:45.360 oh he's he's a plus size model he's from london 0.98

00:07:48.960 and he's someone who just um wait because he's a plus size are you talking

00:07:52.720 about the talk show host james corbin the guy who was in the flight scandal

00:07:55.920 recently or no someone out of some james

00:08:00.960 corden so basically there's a plus that's my mistake then

00:08:05.200 so basically there's a plus size model from the uk called james corbyn

00:08:09.520 and he talks about body positivity and um he's making a difference for the plus

00:08:14.720 size community and he's not promoting obesity i don't promote obesity

00:08:19.840 i tell people try and stick to natural foods because you may be big

00:08:24.320 but at least if you're big you're gonna have goodness in you you're gonna have

00:08:27.200 a lot of like strength and yeah because some

00:08:30.640 people's bodies are just the way they are pearl you don't know girl 0.53

00:08:34.320 i i juice i even have a ninja creamy like i make my own lime grapes like all

00:08:39.840 these things i actually care about my

00:08:41.760 my health but my size i'm telling you like

00:08:44.720 i'm also would you do like i i just don't

00:08:47.920 that doesn't make sense to me like i i think if you did like a training plan

00:08:51.600 with me for a week you would lose weight

00:08:54.080 but i i really i really do like i think you would so um

00:08:58.240 that's the thing because i have medical issues as well i can't really openly

00:09:01.920 speak about but i have stuff like gout flares up that

00:09:05.600 flares my hands up and all that so there's always an obstacle that comes

00:09:10.960 in front but all my life i've battled i've always said good food

00:09:16.480 and get out exercise never be that reason don't ever let anyone give you

00:09:22.400 that reason to say you're fat and you're lazy

00:09:25.280 because that's the stereotype that the world has 0.52

00:09:28.080 of plus size people i think there's something that we're not addressing here

00:09:31.040 and it's that obesity and being plus size but really it's obesity

00:09:36.080 it's a clinical term it is what it is it's a symptom of something else

00:09:39.520 though i agree with you if i were to work out with you or with a personal

00:09:42.640 trainer i absolutely could lose the weight and so could

00:09:45.040 most other people but obesity is a symptom of something else she's right nine

00:09:48.560 times out of ten yes yes yes yes you can't get someone in the gym

00:09:51.760 put them on a three-month training program and say lose this weight

00:09:54.720 even if they do lose it what's to stop them from putting it back

00:09:57.840 no i'm saying shouldn't we fix that problem then so if it's emotional let's figure out

00:10:03.920 what it is and fix it and promote that instead of obesity on the cover of

00:10:07.520 magazines she's she's spot on and the number one way that people cope with

00:10:11.040 anxiety the most common way people cope with

00:10:13.360 anxiety is by eating yeah exactly you know you eat too much so yeah

00:10:17.120 and you're you're a thousand percent correct that goes back to like you know

00:10:20.160 your subconscious uh mind and how you perceive yourself

00:10:23.840 because a lot of these people too adding to what you said

00:10:27.360 they will lose the weight they'll lose like 100 pounds 200 pounds 150 pounds

00:10:32.400 but the subconscious version of themselves in their mind is not that

00:10:35.680 skinny healthy person and they'll self-sabotage back up 1.00

00:10:39.760 to that weight so what she's saying is a thousand percent

00:10:42.720 correct it's not that i mean i think i'm people and i'm from america but

00:10:47.360 like where fat people were made and so

00:10:51.120 and so like in america i think that the american people are grossly

00:10:56.800 undereducated on the foundational principles of

00:10:59.760 having a diet carbs proteins fats they don't even know that those are the

00:11:03.760 three different calorie source and then alcohol if you want to add that

00:11:06.400 but and they don't know about having high protein diet and managing your

00:11:10.480 calories and all that stuff but in addition to that right because

00:11:14.240 we grew up in america thinking like cereal was a healthy thing to eat as a

00:11:17.440 child which is just sugar-corded carbs

00:11:20.800 right yeah now i only eat that if i smoke weed in miami

JustPearlyThings - October 22, 2023

Body Positivity Promotes Bad Behavior

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