The exact same thing happened to obesity. What, presumably, started out as a good-faith effort to make people stop bullying other people for being fat, became "fat acceptance" and "health at every size" (HAES). Now people are denying basic medical truths and "calling out" their doctors over their declining health. I've even had a woke friend want to try both dieting and bulking up, but she expressed profound guilt about wanting to, like, traditionally improve her appearance, because, I'm a twisted sense, it's a form of body shaming. Everyone on Tumblr says you're a goddess no matter what, so of course if you attempt to change your body, you're rejecting that premise and implying that you aren't already "perfect". Personally, I think a lot of these people are just jealous and insecure. They want to change, too, but it's a lot easier to just pull everyone down and cultivate an insular culture of yes-people to make you feel good about yourself.
The exact same thing happened to obesity. What, presumably, started out as a good-faith effort to make people stop bullying other people for being fat, became "fat acceptance" and "health at every size" (HAES). Now people are denying basic medical truths and "calling out" their doctors over their declining health. I've even had a woke friend want to try both dieting and bulking up, but she expressed profound guilt about wanting to, like, traditionally improve her appearance, because, I'm a twisted sense, it's a form of body shaming. Everyone on Tumblr says you're a goddess no matter what, so of course if you attempt to change your body, you're rejecting that premise and implying that you aren't already "perfect". Personally, I think a lot of these people are just jealous and insecure. They want to change, too, but it's a lot easier to just pull everyone down and cultivate an insular culture of yes-people to make you feel good about yourself.