The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 95 - The Problem with the ‘Body Positivity’ Movement

00:00:00.000 So I was just reading a really moving and inspirational story, and I think with all

00:00:07.780 the bad news out there, it's great to have a little bit of hope and to focus on the good

00:00:14.660 things every once in a while.

00:00:15.740 So I just wanted to start right off the bat by telling you about this.

00:00:19.140 Here's the headline.

00:00:20.640 This is really great.

00:00:21.620 It says, gravitational waves could collide, sucking Earth into a black hole.

00:00:27.360 So there is hope.

00:00:28.420 I mean, there's a potential solution to our problems, and I don't know.

00:00:33.740 I just wanted to let you know so you could go about your day today with a little bit of

00:00:38.320 a smile on your face.

00:00:39.340 Unfortunately, the chances are slim of the Earth getting sucked into a black hole, but

00:00:43.440 we can keep our fingers crossed, right?

00:00:46.600 Now, in the meantime, I want to talk about body positivity.

00:00:52.740 It's a little bit of a weird segue.

00:00:54.200 I get that, but it's hard to segue into anything once you've started with the Earth being annihilated

00:01:00.500 by a black hole.

00:01:01.420 So you just got to dive into it and go for it.

00:01:03.600 A body acceptance model named Tess Holliday is on the cover of Cosmo magazine.

00:01:10.800 Tess is morbidly obese.

00:01:12.820 And we're told that this is a historic moment, a great moment for the world, for mankind,

00:01:19.660 because it promotes body acceptance and body positivity and so on.

00:01:25.740 And fat acceptance, you know, is I think the phrase people use now.

00:01:30.140 Now, I don't want to spend any time dissecting the particulars of this magazine cover because

00:01:37.280 it doesn't matter. 0.99

00:01:38.220 Cosmo is a trash magazine as it is. 0.98

00:01:40.140 Uh, so it's just, it doesn't really matter. 1.00

00:01:43.780 They're a garbage magazine. 0.98

00:01:44.580 It doesn't matter what they put on, on the cover of, of their magazine. 1.00

00:01:48.640 You can't, it's not even legal to buy a Cosmo magazine if your IQ is over 45.

00:01:53.500 I don't know if you knew that, but it's, you're only allowed to buy it if your IQ is under 45.

00:01:58.620 If you have an IQ over that of say a cucumber, um, you're not allowed to buy a Cosmo magazine

00:02:04.800 because of the, the, uh, the terrible effect that would have on your mental health.

00:02:10.140 Uh, but you know, if your IQ is under 45, then you really don't have much of a mind.

00:02:13.880 So it doesn't, doesn't really matter.

00:02:15.100 So, so in that sense, it makes no difference.

00:02:17.660 And as for Tess Holliday herself, uh, I wish her nothing but good things.

00:02:21.600 I have nothing against her personally.

00:02:23.020 I don't know anything about her.

00:02:24.320 All I know is that she's a morbidly obese model whose whole mission in life apparently 1.00

00:02:28.140 is self-acceptance and self-love and self-esteem and every other word with self in front of

00:02:33.880 it.

00:02:35.100 What I would like to talk about though, um, what I would like to do is talk about just

00:02:40.660 the whole idea of body positivity, this obsession, this, this, this thing we do now in society

00:02:46.740 where we insist that everyone love their body just as, as it is.

00:02:51.080 We insist that everyone find themselves attractive and beautiful.

00:02:54.440 We insist that everyone accept and love everything about themselves.

00:02:58.800 We insist that all body types are wonderful no matter what and on and on and on and on.

00:03:03.940 Um, I want to talk about that because I think it's, I think it's harmful and counterproductive.

00:03:10.380 But before we get into that, I should stipulate that I agree, um, that there has been for

00:03:17.280 a long time, unrealistic beauty standards imposed primarily on women. 1.00

00:03:23.000 Uh, it's something that women, women mostly deal with men have their own version of it a

00:03:27.960 little bit, but it's, it certainly has a greater effect on women. 1.00

00:03:30.700 The pressure to be beautiful is not something that I myself have really experienced.

00:03:36.480 And thank God for that, because obviously I missed the beauty train and it ain't coming

00:03:41.600 back to pick me up.

00:03:42.760 So it's good that it doesn't, it doesn't matter for me.

00:03:45.300 And so I'm a man and I'm also married.

00:03:47.360 So I really don't care.

00:03:49.100 It doesn't matter to me.

00:03:51.080 I mean, people in the comments will make, uh, I'll see sometimes I'll make, they'll make

00:03:55.880 very insulting remarks about my physical appearance.

00:03:59.380 And you know what?

00:04:00.120 Anytime I read those, the only thing I think I just smile and I think, well, it's a good thing

00:04:02.840 I'm married then.

00:04:03.480 So I don't care.

00:04:04.140 I mean, it's really doesn't, it doesn't make a difference.

00:04:07.160 Um, I just feel bad for my wife, honestly, but you know, jokes on her, I guess.

00:04:13.160 So there has been in, in recent times.

00:04:17.220 Um, and I, you know, if I was a woman, maybe a little bit, be a little bit more difficult

00:04:21.320 for me to have that attitude because there's just a general, there's greater societal pressure

00:04:27.200 for women to, you know, be attractive. 1.00

00:04:29.340 And I get that.

00:04:29.860 Um, and it's good to, to the extent that we have reacted against that, that's good because

00:04:35.900 it's ridiculous that women should feel pressured to be a size negative seven and to have no

00:04:40.340 blemishes and no imperfections and all that. 0.95

00:04:42.880 Um, it's good that we've gotten away from this idea that a woman must be anorexic to be beautiful.

00:04:47.880 And I don't say that as any kind of a joke or anything about anorexia, by the way.

00:04:53.540 I mean, I just mean it literally this, this was the message that we were giving to girls.

00:04:57.360 And that's where a lot of the eating disorders and anorexia where it came from, because we

00:05:03.480 were basically telling them implicitly that, you know, you've got to have an eating disorder

00:05:08.400 to be attractive.

00:05:09.060 That obviously is, is, uh, deranged and crazy and harmful getting away from that is wonderful.

00:05:16.660 However, we seem to have gone way to the other end of the spectrum, like way to the extreme

00:05:23.020 other end of the spectrum, going from anorexic models to morbidly obese models, going from

00:05:28.880 only this type of body is good to any body type, any weight is good.

00:05:34.120 And I think that's the wrong approach.

00:05:37.160 I think the whole body positivity thing is wrong.

00:05:39.920 And I have two reasons for that.

00:05:41.500 Number one, not everything about your body is necessarily positive.

00:05:48.160 Not all of it should be accepted or loved or embraced.

00:05:52.800 Okay.

00:05:53.720 Morbid obesity, for instance, is an objectively negative thing because it's unhealthy.

00:05:58.900 It will kill you.

00:05:59.960 Uh, and it will cause all kinds of other health problems as well. 0.64

00:06:05.700 Your, your body is not meant to carry around hundreds of pounds of extra fat.

00:06:13.400 That's not, we weren't meant for that.

00:06:15.800 It's, it's, it's just not good for your body.

00:06:18.160 It has, it has, you know, it has a terrible effect on pretty much every aspect of your body

00:06:23.980 because none of it was made to support that.

00:06:26.900 Right.

00:06:27.940 Um, from your internal organs to your bones, just everything.

00:06:32.660 So there's no, that's not something we should embrace because it's unhealthy.

00:06:36.580 And it's also something that very often develops through an unhealthy and inactive lifestyle.

00:06:42.460 So when you're embracing the morbid obesity, you're also embracing the lifestyle, which caused

00:06:47.020 it.

00:06:47.320 And I get it.

00:06:48.300 Okay.

00:06:48.660 I talk every, anytime we talk about this issue of obesity, being overweight and so on,

00:06:52.680 you're, you're always going to have the people who say, well, yeah, but what about, you know,

00:06:56.580 it's possible for someone to become morbidly obese.

00:06:59.420 Um, you know, even if they're trying to eat healthy, I mean, someone, someone wrote to me

00:07:04.180 yesterday.

00:07:04.500 I, I, I mentioned this issue briefly yesterday on Facebook.

00:07:07.100 Someone wrote to me, they're very angry.

00:07:08.720 And they said, um, they said, well, you know, there are people who are obese now because

00:07:13.800 they're going through cancer treatments.

00:07:15.100 Um, obesity is one of the symptoms of, of, uh, of brain tumors, which I don't know if

00:07:22.020 that's true or not.

00:07:22.580 I'll assume it's true.

00:07:23.280 I didn't look it up, you know?

00:07:24.720 Um, okay.

00:07:26.920 And that's obviously an exception, but we have to ask ourselves when we look at the overall

00:07:31.840 problem of obesity in America, do we imagine that most of that is because of brain tumors?

00:07:38.680 That most of it is because of disease really?

00:07:40.820 And if so, why is there so much more morbid obesity in America than there is in Ethiopia? 0.98

00:07:49.220 Obviously it's clearly it has, it's primarily not solely, but primarily driven by lifestyle

00:07:57.640 and by diet.

00:08:00.600 So we've got a lot of fast food here.

00:08:03.460 We eat a lot of processed food.

00:08:05.300 We also on average spend five hours a day sitting on the couch watching TV.

00:08:09.400 So that is, that has a lot to do with the obesity problem.

00:08:13.460 It's not disconnected from it, right?

00:08:15.260 Clearly I'm acknowledging that there are exceptions, but the overall problem is primarily driven

00:08:22.820 by poor dieting, poor lifestyle choices.

00:08:25.900 And that's all, and, and not something that we should accept.

00:08:30.020 Now I'm talking here about morbid obesity.

00:08:32.320 Um, when you talk about obesity or being overweight, you know, the issue with that is that those

00:08:40.180 terms have becomes, have broadened so much and become kind of ambiguous.

00:08:45.100 Like if you look at a chart of what is considered obese for your heart, for your height, according

00:08:51.140 to the medical community, you'll see that it's like everyone, you know, uh, I was looking

00:08:55.920 at one of these charts right before I started rolling here.

00:08:57.740 I was looking at one of the charts just out of curiosity and I, it said that I'm, I think

00:09:02.780 it said that I'm obese or no, no, it said I'm overweight.

00:09:05.960 Let me, I have it right here.

00:09:07.360 Medical news today has a chart.

00:09:10.600 Um, and it gives you the height and then it gives you what the, what the weight range

00:09:15.700 is for normal overweight, obese, and extremely obese.

00:09:19.040 So I'm six foot tall.

00:09:22.200 Um, and it says that norm, the normal weight range is one 40 to one 77, 140 pounds for a

00:09:30.100 six foot man.

00:09:30.980 I haven't been 140 pounds since like eighth grade, 140 pounds for a six foot man.

00:09:35.240 That's emaciated.

00:09:36.600 You're just, you're just skin and bones.

00:09:38.260 How is that normal?

00:09:39.420 That to me seems drastically underweight and then overweight, um, for my weight range,

00:09:45.300 you know, full disclosure here, I'm being, I'm being, uh, transparent.

00:09:50.300 So overweight is one 84 to two 13.

00:09:53.680 They're saying that you're overweight as a six foot man, when you reach 185 pounds.

00:09:58.300 Um, I'm like one 95, 200.

00:10:01.320 So I'm, I'm overweight.

00:10:02.360 I'm like, I'm pushing the scales towards obesity folks.

00:10:05.580 I am according to this now, I don't know.

00:10:08.380 Maybe I am obese.

00:10:09.260 I, you know, I run two miles a day.

00:10:10.660 It's possible that I'm obese at the same time.

00:10:12.720 Um, I, I do think that overweight and obese have become categories that are, you know,

00:10:17.800 have maybe been widened too much, no pun intended.

00:10:21.800 I apologize.

00:10:22.980 But when you get into extreme obesity, when we talk about someone who is, you know, five

00:10:28.080 foot seven and weighs 275 pounds, well, then it's obvious that it's a problem.

00:10:32.420 It's unhealthy.

00:10:32.980 It is catastrophically unhealthy.

00:10:34.580 In fact, now, if you are morbidly obese or on the other end, let's say you're someone

00:10:41.180 who is dangerously underweight.

00:10:44.360 Um, if you're massively overweight, massively underweight, you shouldn't try to accept it.

00:10:49.500 You shouldn't try to fool yourself into believing that it's a positive thing.

00:10:53.360 Uh, you shouldn't hate yourself either.

00:10:55.160 You shouldn't despair over it.

00:10:57.360 People shouldn't make fun of you for it or mock you, obviously, but you should take it

00:11:02.000 as a, as a challenge to overcome a change to make.

00:11:04.960 That's all.

00:11:06.220 What's wrong with that?

00:11:07.360 We really need to get past this idea that we as individuals should celebrate and love

00:11:14.240 everything about ourselves simply because it is ourselves.

00:11:19.120 The problem is that that philosophy leaves no room for improvement.

00:11:23.500 It leaves no room for honest self-assessment.

00:11:25.640 It will prevent you from becoming a better, healthier person because any positive personal

00:11:30.860 change has to always begin by looking at yourself and saying, this aspect of myself isn't ideal.

00:11:37.420 I want to change it.

00:11:40.140 We all have those negative facets of ourselves.

00:11:42.480 The only difference is that only certain negative personal features have their own lobbying groups

00:11:47.380 and are the subject of marketing campaigns telling us to accept and celebrate it.

00:11:52.200 Um, for instance, one of my many personal flaws is that I have a bad temper.

00:11:56.340 Uh, so I'm telling you a lot about, I mean, I'm obese.

00:11:59.340 I have a bad temper, for instance.

00:12:02.800 Uh, you know, so, but, but as someone with a bad temper, and I know it shocks you to learn

00:12:08.340 that about me, I know that I need to change that.

00:12:12.020 That's a flaw that I have.

00:12:13.900 I need to work on it.

00:12:16.400 And nobody in society would tell me otherwise though.

00:12:20.820 That's the difference.

00:12:21.580 There isn't any bad temper acceptance movement.

00:12:25.920 They're not going to put me on the cover of a magazine screaming with a, with a, with a headline

00:12:30.640 that says bad tempers are beautiful.

00:12:32.920 Okay.

00:12:33.240 That's not going to happen because everyone recognizes that a bad temper is not beautiful.

00:12:38.680 It's a, it's a character flaw.

00:12:40.320 You got to change it.

00:12:42.340 But overeating, um, gluttony, sedentary lifestyles, and the morbid obesity that often comes from it.

00:12:49.740 And with that, there are people telling us to accept it and love it.

00:12:53.620 And, uh, that's why it's necessary to speak up and offer a corrective to that flawed and

00:12:58.760 dangerous idea.

00:13:01.700 Number two, I go back to something I said when we talked about the idea of self-love.

00:13:07.520 Um, it applies even more in this case.

00:13:09.440 Rather than being constantly obsessed with body positivity and with developing a positive

00:13:17.320 image of your own body, maybe the better course is to, is to stop looking in the mirror for

00:13:23.340 five seconds and live your life.

00:13:26.460 Live it outwardly.

00:13:27.680 Stop obsessing over how you look one way or another because it's vanity either way.

00:13:31.960 To obsess over your perceived flaws or your perceived beauty is vanity.

00:13:36.560 Both are vanity and it's a shallow, dull, miserable way to go through life.

00:13:44.680 All this stuff about we're supposed to love our bodies.

00:13:49.240 Oh, I love my body.

00:13:50.860 I'm so in love with my own body.

00:13:52.740 I mean, I guess we consider that healthy for people to go around talking about, I love my

00:13:57.060 body so much.

00:13:58.120 But if you've gone back, you know, if you go back a hundred years ago, 200 years ago,

00:14:00.960 and you walk around telling someone, I love my body.

00:14:03.500 Do you love your body? 0.96

00:14:04.340 They'll look at you like a crazy person.

00:14:06.760 They'll say, what?

00:14:07.460 Love your body.

00:14:08.220 What is that?

00:14:09.840 It's kind of a weird, it's a weird thing to say, hey, I'm so, hey guys, I love this so

00:14:15.280 much.

00:14:15.600 I am so in love with all this.

00:14:18.020 I got to tell you how much I love that.

00:14:19.940 Just to walk around looking at yourself.

00:14:22.300 Oh my gosh, I'm in love.

00:14:24.120 I'm in love with me.

00:14:25.520 No, that's not, that's not how we should go through life.

00:14:28.020 And we say that everybody should think that they themselves are beautiful.

00:14:35.120 Well, everyone isn't beautiful.

00:14:37.440 First of all, there's a certain objective quality to physical beauty.

00:14:41.900 If there isn't any, I know people say, no, there's no objective quality to beauty.

00:14:45.540 Well, then it doesn't mean anything.

00:14:47.400 It doesn't mean anything to say if everyone's beautiful, then beauty has no meaning to take

00:14:53.900 pride in beauty or to feel good about it.

00:14:56.180 It's like, you might as well feel good about the fact that you breathe.

00:14:59.000 You might as well say, I'm a breather.

00:15:01.080 I tell you right now, you might as well look in the mirror and say, I am a breather.

00:15:06.960 Because it's the same thing as looking in the mirror and just telling yourself you're

00:15:10.180 beautiful.

00:15:11.200 I'm beautiful.

00:15:12.760 Everyone is beautiful.

00:15:14.100 We're all beautiful.

00:15:15.360 Well, then no one is beautiful.

00:15:16.780 Then beauty means nothing.

00:15:18.560 You know, all we've done in that case is we have removed beauty from the people who 0.92

00:15:23.740 actually have it and from the things that actually have it by trying to give it to everybody.

00:15:30.580 There is an objective quality to beauty.

00:15:33.540 I mean, think about art, for instance.

00:15:36.340 There are certain great classic pieces of art.

00:15:38.380 The Sistine Chapel, okay, is a beautiful work of art.

00:15:43.220 Now, we like to say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but not...

00:15:46.660 Now, there are subjective qualities to it, how exactly it moves you, you know, what emotions,

00:15:52.940 what thoughts it brings to mind.

00:15:54.320 That's all subjective.

00:15:55.520 But if you walk into the Sistine Chapel and look up at the ceiling and say, yeah, I'm just

00:16:00.240 not into that.

00:16:00.940 I mean, I think that's good. 0.81

00:16:01.800 Or if you walk in and you say, oh, disgusting. 0.86

00:16:04.180 That is gross. 0.96

00:16:05.580 Well, then there's something wrong with you.

00:16:07.260 You are wrong.

00:16:08.680 You are wrong for reacting that way.

00:16:10.680 If you look out at a serene, peaceful mountain lake and there's not a cloud in the sky, you

00:16:19.640 know, it's 65 degrees, which is the objectively best temperature, by the way.

00:16:26.140 And there's, you know, birds flying by and everything and there's trees all around.

00:16:29.680 If you look at that and you say, yeah, you know, doesn't do anything for me.

00:16:32.980 Don't like it.

00:16:33.980 No.

00:16:35.040 It's ugly. 0.98

00:16:36.120 Gross. 0.98

00:16:38.680 Yeah. 0.98

00:16:39.040 I'd rather go look at this dumpster over here.

00:16:40.820 Yeah, that's me.

00:16:41.460 I, you know, yeah.

00:16:42.520 And then you go and you sit and you, you, you sit in front of a dumpster and stare at

00:16:46.240 it and say, wow, you're wrong.

00:16:47.940 Okay.

00:16:48.440 So beauty is not totally in the eye.

00:16:50.340 If that's, if that's your reaction, you're meant, you're something mentally wrong with

00:16:53.700 you and spiritually wrong with you. 0.80

00:16:57.620 Same holds true for physical beauty of, for people.

00:17:00.820 There are some people who are just physically beautiful.

00:17:04.180 And that's all they have.

00:17:06.260 They have it.

00:17:06.920 That's a quality that they have.

00:17:11.440 And if it's something that has, if there's an objective quality to it, it means that some

00:17:15.660 people can be physically beautiful and some people aren't.

00:17:19.320 So you might not be beautiful.

00:17:21.620 I'm not.

00:17:22.440 That's okay.

00:17:23.160 That's fine.

00:17:24.160 Statistically, you probably are not beautiful.

00:17:28.240 Statistically.

00:17:30.520 Because most people aren't.

00:17:31.680 Now, which that's fine.

00:17:36.240 It's, it's fine.

00:17:37.180 Not everyone has to be.

00:17:39.540 What about, um, it's the same thing as like, it's like, if I said, you know, statistically,

00:17:45.480 not everybody can run, um, a mile in five minutes and 30 seconds.

00:17:50.320 It's kind of a, it's a, it is rare to find someone who it's comparatively rare to find

00:17:55.980 someone who can do that.

00:17:57.920 Someone who has that kind of speed and endurance, right?

00:18:00.880 And that's, that's fine.

00:18:01.980 It's fine if you can't run a mile in five minutes and 30 seconds.

00:18:06.160 Now, what about beauty on the inside?

00:18:08.540 It's true that beauty, the beauty of kindness, the beauty of virtue and generosity, uh, these

00:18:13.400 are far more important, but not everyone has that beauty either. 0.88

00:18:20.180 Some people are ugly inside.

00:18:21.920 Some people are beautiful outside, ugly inside. 1.00

00:18:24.180 Some people are ugly outside, ugly inside.

00:18:26.680 That's possible too. 1.00

00:18:28.340 There's this dumb cliche. 0.97

00:18:29.920 We do these where we kind of think that, um, we assume that every ugly person must be 0.98

00:18:34.220 beautiful inside.

00:18:35.200 Not necessarily. 1.00

00:18:37.000 What was that stupid movie that came out years ago? 1.00

00:18:40.360 Shallow Hal with Jack Black. 1.00

00:18:43.400 And all of a sudden he was able to see, you know, Tony Robbins gave him magical powers

00:18:47.680 so that he could see the, the inner beauty of, of someone.

00:18:51.620 And, um, in the movie, it's every, every physically ugly person he met was actually beautiful inside.

00:18:58.080 Well, that's, I mean, it's nice to think that's the way it goes, but it, but it's not necessarily

00:19:02.100 the way it goes.

00:19:04.040 Uh, some people have it all.

00:19:05.340 There are people who are beautiful outside, beautiful inside, but the last thing we should

00:19:09.760 do is encourage people to spend time convincing themselves that they are beautiful outside

00:19:16.380 and inside.

00:19:18.300 People who are beautiful on the inside.

00:19:20.660 And that is people who have beautiful, who, who are kind, generous, virtuous, and all of

00:19:26.380 that, compassionate, right?

00:19:29.460 Um, those people, they would never go around saying it and they don't spend time thinking

00:19:36.240 of it because there's, for anyone who really has virtue, there's an element of humility in

00:19:42.640 all of their virtues in order for it to really be virtue.

00:19:45.280 So the moment someone says, I am beautiful on the inside, well, then you know that they

00:19:52.260 probably aren't, unless it's a child saying that.

00:19:54.940 But if it's an adult who goes around saying something like that, they're probably not beautiful

00:19:57.960 on the inside because lacking humility is ugly.

00:20:01.600 Preoccupation with yourself is ugly.

00:20:05.200 Talking about your own positive features is ugly.

00:20:10.420 Someone who's really beautiful on the inside, they just, they don't think about it.

00:20:14.120 They don't focus on it.

00:20:15.280 Because they're humble as well.

00:20:18.520 It's one of the things that makes them beautiful.

00:20:21.560 Point being, we should try to forget as much as possible about ourselves.

00:20:25.780 We should look at ourselves and within ourselves only as long as it takes to discover our flaws

00:20:30.940 so that we can correct them.

00:20:32.600 And then we should live our lives from there.

00:20:34.360 Looking out into the world, at our loved ones, at nature, up to God, not in the mirror all

00:20:40.180 the time, not into our own emotions, obsessing over our feelings about ourselves.

00:20:45.400 What a miserable way.

00:20:46.920 And this is how people live their lives now, where they're not only obsessed with their

00:20:50.960 feelings, but they're obsessed with how they feel about themselves.

00:20:55.200 And they sit around all day.

00:20:57.560 How do I feel about myself right now?

00:21:00.920 What a terrible way to live.

00:21:03.160 Awful.

00:21:03.640 And, you know, I think, I'm not saying that we should have no positive feelings about ourselves

00:21:10.340 at all.

00:21:13.920 But I think rather than walking around with this sense of our own alleged beauty, I think

00:21:20.880 we should, it's better rather to have a sense of our dignity.

00:21:23.940 Maybe that's, maybe that's what some people mean when they say, everyone is beautiful,

00:21:30.100 or we should all, you know, we should all think that we're beautiful.

00:21:32.780 Maybe, if I want to give them a benefit of the doubt, maybe what they really are struggling

00:21:38.560 trying to say is dignity.

00:21:41.040 Everyone has human dignity.

00:21:42.460 And we should all be aware of our dignity, because that is definitely true.

00:21:46.460 And human dignity is a phrase that seems to have been lost.

00:21:50.520 So maybe forget about your beauty.

00:21:53.460 Forget about how you look.

00:21:54.700 Remember your dignity.

00:21:57.000 Because if you focus on dignity instead of beauty, then I think you'll be spurred on to

00:22:02.320 act with decency and self-respect and humility and virtue and all of that.

00:22:07.980 Because a person can feel that they are physically beautiful and then go on to be a stripper or 0.96

00:22:12.780 a prostitute, so their way of expressing their beauty is to defile it. 0.96

00:22:17.420 That happens all the time in this culture, and people are encouraged to act that way. 0.97

00:22:22.380 People are encouraged to express their physical beauty by desecrating it, and it's a terrible

00:22:27.360 thing.

00:22:28.240 But if they have a sense of their dignity rather than their beauty, then they would never be 0.84

00:22:35.740 a stripper or a prostitute. 0.96

00:22:36.800 And their beauty would be accentuated and highlighted and protected if they really have 0.94

00:22:45.660 a sense of their own dignity.

00:22:50.000 So maybe that, maybe we should get away from that.

00:22:54.560 Rather than body positivity, everyone's beautiful, blah, blah, blah, self-esteem, self-love, just

00:23:00.480 self-dignity, the dignity of yourself.

00:23:04.640 Maybe that's what we should focus on.

00:23:07.340 And that's what we should instill into our kids, that you are a human being.

00:23:13.340 You're a creature made by God.

00:23:16.440 You have dignity for that reason.

00:23:18.540 It is an immutable dignity that no one can take away from you.

00:23:24.500 And you can choose to live according to it, and live in a way that defends and protects

00:23:34.100 and cherishes that dignity, or not.

00:23:38.100 And that's the choice that we have to make.

00:23:41.560 All right.

00:23:44.640 So remember your dignity.

00:23:45.900 And we'll leave it at that.

00:23:49.320 Have a great weekend, everybody.

00:23:51.880 And if we do get sucked into a black hole sometime this weekend, then I guess I'll, well, you

00:24:00.520 know, I'll see you on the other side.

00:24:02.600 Godspeed.

00:24:02.920 Godspeed.

00:24:21.820 I'll see you on the other side.

00:24:22.680 Godspeed.

00:24:23.600 Godspeed.

00:24:24.740 Godspeed.

00:24:25.840 Godspeed.

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The Matt Walsh Show - August 31, 2018

Ep. 95 - The Problem with the ‘Body Positivity’ Movement

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