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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 182 | Body Positivity Activist Says: 'Too Many Thin Influencers!'

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Lauren looks at one fat acceptance activist who is upset that the self-love and body positivity movement has come to include so many thin and conventionally attractive influencers. Then, socialists online are upset that Jeff Bezos may become the world's first trillionaire and reveal their ignorance about economics and finances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the show and thank you so much for tuning in.

0:11.2

Today we are going to be talking about the body positivity movement eating itself, pun very much intended, and then online socialists are super mad that Jeff Bezos may just be the world's first trillionaire, oh the horror.

0:25.0

So in a world where Photoshop and Facetune are more common than ever and where models with

0:29.8

seemingly flawless airbrush bodies have millions of followers on Instagram, there is a movement growing to expose the differences between Instagram and reality.

0:40.0

I'm not saying that Instagram or social media in general is inherently bad because I don't think it is but at the same time

0:47.6

We need to realize that more and more these large Instagram accounts especially the, they are, I think at the very least,

0:55.8

staged, right? They're not representative of what everyday life looks like.

1:00.3

If you follow travel accounts, those accounts don't show you when they post these amazing photos,

1:06.0

all the hours of travel that goes into getting to those locations or the crowds of tourists or the heaps of trash or pig pocketers or whatever it may be that comes with actually being there, right?

1:18.3

They only show you the beautiful side of things. There's nothing wrong with that, but as people who are consuming that media, we need to keep

1:25.2

in mind that those downsides still exist, right? It's not like these people are living in a perfect

1:30.4

utopia themselves. And when it comes to these, I guess,

1:34.1

Instagram model accounts, this is especially important

1:36.6

for women to keep in mind.

1:38.2

Yeah, those people look amazing

1:39.9

and I'm sure they work out a lot and eat right.

1:42.1

But also, there's still things like angles and lighting and yes

1:46.4

Photoshop that go into a lot of the times making their photos and their bodies look as good as they do. I don't think there's anything wrong

1:54.8

with people posting these photos of beautiful places or their beautiful

1:59.0

bodies. I don't think we need to resent them for it. But it's just it's important for ourselves for us to remember that we

2:06.5

shouldn't be comparing our day-to-day lives to someone's very curated highlight reel and a lot of content creators, even themselves

2:14.7

who have these accounts, they're trying now

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