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The Matt Walsh Show

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

The Matt Walsh Show

The Matt Walsh Show

News, News Commentary

4.727.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

These days we are told to embrace and celebrate everything about ourselves and our bodies. Even the morbidly obese are encouraged to be "positive" about a physical state that may well kill them. I think this is the wrong approach. For one, it prevents honest self-assessment which prevents self-improvement. For another, it encourages us to remain obsessively focused on ourselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Slack.com slash DHQ. So I was just reading a really moving and inspirational story. And

0:36.3

I think with all the bad news out there, it's great to have a little bit of hope and to

0:43.0

focus on the good things every once in a while. So I just wanted to start right off the

0:46.9

bat by telling you about this. Here's the headline. This is really great. It says, gravitational

0:53.3

waves could collide sucking earth into a black hole. So there is hope. I mean, there's a potential

0:59.9

solution to our problems. And I don't know, I just wanted to let you know, so you could.

1:05.4

You could go about that your day today with a little bit of a smile on your face. Unfortunately,

1:09.5

the chances are slim of the earth getting sucked into a black hole. But we can keep our

1:13.9

fingers crossed, right? Now, in the meantime, I want to talk about body positivity. It's

1:22.7

a little bit of a weird segue. I get that. But it's hard to segue into anything once

1:28.1

you've started with the earth being annihilated by a black hole. So you just got to dive into

1:31.9

it and go for it. A body, a body acceptance model named test holiday is on the cover of

1:38.7

Cosmo magazine. Test is morbidly obese. And we're told that this is a historic moment,

1:46.0

a great moment for the world, the for mankind, because it promotes body acceptance and

1:52.5

body positivity and so on. And fat acceptance, you know, is I think the phrase people use.

1:58.7

Now, now, I don't, I don't want to spend any time dissecting the particulars of this

2:05.5

magazine cover, because it doesn't matter. Cosmos, a trash magazine as it is. So it's just,

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