Pearl SAVAGELY DEBUNKS Body Positivity
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the obesity epidemic in our society and how it affects our mental health. We also talk about our thoughts on whether or not we should shame people who are overweight and how we can encourage people to lose weight.
Transcript
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Why are we going to create a community of feeling good, being obese,
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and knowing there's so much health challenges behind it?
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My brother, my brother, there's a lot of people.
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Why are we promoting obesity, knowing there's so much health challenges behind it?
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That's like you're saying, go have sex with everyone at all condom.
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And for me, I just feel like, I know what you're saying, but at the same time.
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You wouldn't tell your brother, listen, go have sex with that girl without a condom.
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You would say, bro, make sure and wear your robbers.
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You don't want to hear a boy coming home at STD.
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Yeah, but my thing is, she's allowed to use social media.
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Yeah, but that's why I think it's more important that we shame it.
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I don't think we should say, definitely not shame it.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, and say, and say, put the rolls away.
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My mom used to tell me, and everyone's going to say I was traumatized.
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My mom used to tell me, and maybe everyone's going to say I was traumatized, that you have
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I think we need to please stop talking about exceptions.
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I've said to friends that might be very overweight, like, I think you would have a better quality
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If that's still her choice, that's still her choice.
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I'll have my overweight friends run up 21 flights of stairs with me.
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I mean, if you're doing it in an encouraging way.
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I think if we ask someone of that weight a question like.
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I think if you ask someone, do you want to lose weight?
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90% of the answer, 95%, 98% of the answer will be yes.
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But also, pal, so when I was a teenager, because I'm very tall, when I first had a growth span
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height, I was very, very skinny and I couldn't really gain weight.
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Girls and stuff, yeah, would make comments and stuff and it made me feel so shit.
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So I feel like there's empathy that comes from that, isn't it?
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I did obviously try and gain weight, so I don't know if that's the difference.
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She's saying, she's saying, but basically bullying somebody encourages you to be a better
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person or change your ways or whatever to how they think should be acceptable.
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There's the people that could drive the mindset to get better.
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You can break them down really bad and they would not try to get better.
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To say you're fat, blah, blah, blah, and you know.
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Body shaming and bullying is not acceptable on any level.
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Isn't body shaming to call a spade a spade to say you're fat?
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It's not, it's not to be mean, but I mean, then once we, but it's like, wait, wait.
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So it's like, how do we fix problems if we can't acknowledge they exist?
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This is the problem with the delusion of modern women.
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It's like, we can't even acknowledge that there's a problem.
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If we can't even say, hey, the problem is there.
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Then you can at least say, maybe I should eat less.
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I'm like pulling teeth here trying to say, yeah, this is a problem.
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I think if we care about someone, it is okay to encourage them.
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But we'll say, I think we'll have a better quality of life because of this, this, and this.
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Because I guess it could be from a caring perspective.
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And because some people do still find them desirable.
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And also, what about the people, the minority that can't help it?
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I don't think we need it to go down to the shame inside.
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Like, you would talk to someone about their obesity in the most respectful way ever.
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It's down to that individual whether they want to change their ways or not.
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Obese person, as I said, 98% of them want to lose weight.
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If you talk to them, you ask them a question, do you want to lose weight?
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So I am not trying to stand up here and be like, oh, I am going to support you being obese.
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I do think we should shame them off the internet, though.
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No, I don't think we should be promoting that to kids.
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Like, I don't think we should be promoting, like, fat chicks on the covers of magazines.
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I don't think we should be promoting, yes, queen.
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And this is why a lot of women, they get work done.
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If you're going to push the narrative of you need to be perfect, then you're going to go do certain things to your body because of idolization.
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But there are these women who are put in their journeys, though.
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Because some women lack in larger breasts or bigger bum.
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And you don't want to do that to please the man or whatever.
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And the attention that they got and that God gave them wasn't enough.
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So they say, let me go get surgery so I can get more attention.
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And the second reason is because they're lazy and they'd rather get a BBL than go to the gym.
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To your point, though, I think that is why it's a good thing to celebrate uniqueness and differences.
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Because otherwise, everyone is pressurized to look the same way.
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Can you, you know, can you exercise and get the same bum as a BBL?
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So my point exactly is this world is pushing women in, like, front line to look a certain way,
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to dress a certain way, and it makes little girls like my daughter to look at them and think,
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If I don't look like that, then I'm a piece of shit, and I'm not going to be desired by the man that I want or whatever.
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Watch out when I reverse this, like, onto, yeah?
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You just said that society is pushing women to do these things, right?
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Then that's the reason why obesity shouldn't be on Instagram like that.
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So I'm talking about the fact that a lot of these women...
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It had nothing to do with her body and how she looks.
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She was just saying, look, I feel good or whatever she said.
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If she says, I look good and she clearly doesn't, that is narcissism.
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If you say that I feel good and there's no way in hell that you can be that big and feel good,
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You have a high visceral fat which is going to cause...
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For narcissism, you also have to want to control people.
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And also, when people are bullied and they are made to feel shit about themselves,
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actually that can lead to narcissism because they have to be the best all the time.
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This is why I'm here to tell them the truth so I can help them.
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Also, it might make, I said this before, it might make those minority people that can't help it feel better.
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Not everyone probably does need to relate to a different identity.
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But I guess at least the minority that are probably born of the wrong chromosome.
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But then look, that gets pushed more than obesity though.
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Because you want to accept transgender and stuff, but you don't want to, you know.
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I do want to do a panel with some transgenders and I want to do a panel with just obese women so we can talk about these topics.