Woman takes on social media body shaming

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HomerJS

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A progressive liberal in the way I view liberal, is a person who has survived childhood with some sense of capacity to feel empathy in tack. Such a liberal feels pain him or herself when exposed to the pain others are feeling. A true liberal then, and again in my opinion, is a person whose core values consist of a will to save all sentient beings from suffering.

This is the kind of person who will oppose body shaming and all other kinds of shaming generally in the knowledge that to willfully shame others is the result of self hate, the internalization of being shamed themselves to the point of self hate.

This also explains why every good intention is met with rage. The prison we suffer from is our own self hate and when anybody tells you the nature of your prison all that can be heard is that somebody is shaming me for being a self inflicted victim of my own negativity. Let's shut up all such people. When everything is utter shit at least we will all be equal. We just have to do away with any notion of hope there is anything at all that is good.
Ever heard the joke...

Patient: "Hey doc it hurts when I do that makes motion"
Doc: "Then stop doing it"

For whatever the reason you post pictures exposing your body on a site that allows comments and not expect to get any that are negative, it's your fault. Two solutions get in better shape or don't do it.

I don't put posting ordinary pictures in the same category. I'll use the Justice Potter Stewart definition

Sometimes the simplest solution is the best
 

Moonbeam

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Ever heard the joke...

Patient: "Hey doc it hurts when I do that makes motion"
Doc: "Then stop doing it"

For whatever the reason you post pictures exposing your body on a site that allows comments and not expect to get any that are negative, it's your fault. Two solutions get in better shape or don't do it.

I don't put posting ordinary pictures in the same category. I'll use the Justice Potter Stewart definition

Sometimes the simplest solution is the best
Are you suggesting that a true progressive should have no empathy for people who have so little self respect they feel a need to expose their less than perfect bodies to the world in the hope of drawing some positive feedback they can't manage to give themselves? If that is how you feel it makes me sad that you do. I think that if you look at the world with open eyes you will see it is filled with broken people seeking from others what they can only retrieve for themselves. It has been called the Hero's Journey because the obstacles on the path have all been put into myth:

Is this a vision or a white man's pipe dream:

Black Orpheus
you dance
you cradle generations
which go out at all hours to the
fronts of work and pain
which tomorrow will assault bastilles
onward toward the bastions of the future
in order to write in all languages
on the clear pages of all skies
the declaration of your rights unrecognized
for more than five centuries . . .
Strange and decisive turn: race is transmuted into historicity,
the black Present explodes and is temporalized, n?gritude?
with its Past and its Future?is inserted into Universal History,
it is no longer a state, nor even an existential attitude, it is a
"Becoming"; the black contribution to the evolution of Human
ity is no longer savour, taste, rhythm, authenticity, a bouquet of
primitive instincts: it is a dated enterprize, a long-suffering
construction and also a future. Previously, the Black man
claimed his place in the sun in the name of ethnic qualities;
now, he establishes his right to life on his mission; and this
mission, like the proletariat's, comes to him from his historic
position: because he has suffered from capitalistic exploitation
more than all the others, he has acquired a sense of revolt and
a love of liberty more than all the others. And because he is the
most oppressed, he necessarily pursues the liberation of all,
when he works for his own deliverance:[

Black messenger of hope
you know all the hymns of the world
even those of the timeless building-works of the Nile.