These past few days of going through Instagram and seeing the trolls taking over the hashtags I used to use, such as #pizzasisters4lyfe, #effyourbeautystandards and #honoryourcurves, and it's making me physically sick. Not just how people are completely bullying others based solely on how they look, but by the response of the people who are a part of the body positive community.
I agree, we should not allow people to make fun of us, to belittle us and to put us down just because we have some extra weight. I agree, that something needs to be done. But what doesn't need to be done is complete and utter disregard for the integrity that we as a community have been striving to promote. We are supposed to promote self-love and love for our fellow humans, but we're not, are we? Are we really promoting this? By telling people that we're better than they are, is that promoting love?
If we're so much better than the people who promote hate, why are we feeding into them? Why aren't we just going on with our lives, being loved by others and ourselves, going to work, the gym, playing with our kids and going shopping? Why are we commenting on the hateful posts and giving them more ammunition? It's all it is, really. The people commenting on their posts and "defending" yourselves, you are making it worse! They want you to comment. They want you to be angry and to call them out because this is entertaining for them. They all banded together on their hate-train and rolled right in because they knew that they could get a rise out of you and for what? Entertainment.
If you really want to do something, leave the haters alone. Let them dry out, get bored and eventually they will go away. If they want to post photos showing the effects of obesity, let them. Are they physically tagging you and pointing you out? You're giving them too much power. If you're really better than they are, prove it.
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