“That part” of the Body Positivity Community. I mean, accepting someone and not judging them of their body, thin or with curves, is a really great thing to do, and I absolutely support that! But what I don’t support are those people who take Body Positivity as in: “You should accept yourself! Therefore you should eat more unhealthy amounts of foods! Because you are beautiful! And if you are on a diet, then sorry to say but you’re going down the wrong path!”. The point of Body Positivity is to accept people who think their bodies don’t fit, and help them with their current issues to make their lives easier, not to encourage them to stay or to even get more with the way they are now
Student pressure. It’s real, and it’s atrociously horrible in developing countries. Americans can say all they want about education being bad, but let them try to attempt the Indian JEE (the second toughest exam on the planet) that almost every Indian student who wants to get a ‘respectable’ job has to go through. It takes a HUGE mental toll on those who attempt it, and bundled with societal stigma to get a respectable IIT degree and the fact that jobs are all but saturated in every single field makes it a thousand times worse.
India has shed its old identity as a British colony pretty effectively, but the education system still runs the way the British set it up, where students are made to prioritize only math and science to go work for a foreign company and in the process, give up their social life, their creativity and their passions. It’s gotta change, and I hope the government does something soon.
Apparently interrogating and criticizing people who don’t have or want kids is just par for the course in our society. Don’t remember when people’s personal lives became anyone else’s business but it wouldn’t be the first memo I’ve missed. Like how would people feel if someone they just met came up to them and started asking them what kinds of weird stuff their SO and them are into in the bedroom? Why can’t the conversation just be left at “I don’t have or want them.” Response: “Oh fair enough.” ?
I hear women get it worse if they state they don’t want kids. Maybe it’s just the specific place I was born but I get way too much flack for this as well. Can’t imagine having it worse.
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“That part” of the Body Positivity Community. I mean, accepting someone and not judging them of their body, thin or with curves, is a really great thing to do, and I absolutely support that! But what I don’t support are those people who take Body Positivity as in: “You should accept yourself! Therefore you should eat more unhealthy amounts of foods! Because you are beautiful! And if you are on a diet, then sorry to say but you’re going down the wrong path!”. The point of Body Positivity is to accept people who think their bodies don’t fit, and help them with their current issues to make their lives easier, not to encourage them to stay or to even get more with the way they are now
Student pressure. It’s real, and it’s atrociously horrible in developing countries. Americans can say all they want about education being bad, but let them try to attempt the Indian JEE (the second toughest exam on the planet) that almost every Indian student who wants to get a ‘respectable’ job has to go through. It takes a HUGE mental toll on those who attempt it, and bundled with societal stigma to get a respectable IIT degree and the fact that jobs are all but saturated in every single field makes it a thousand times worse.
India has shed its old identity as a British colony pretty effectively, but the education system still runs the way the British set it up, where students are made to prioritize only math and science to go work for a foreign company and in the process, give up their social life, their creativity and their passions. It’s gotta change, and I hope the government does something soon.
Alcohol continuing to be legal while people are still being incarcerated for Marijuana
Drinking excessive amounts of alcohol.
Apparently interrogating and criticizing people who don’t have or want kids is just par for the course in our society. Don’t remember when people’s personal lives became anyone else’s business but it wouldn’t be the first memo I’ve missed. Like how would people feel if someone they just met came up to them and started asking them what kinds of weird stuff their SO and them are into in the bedroom? Why can’t the conversation just be left at “I don’t have or want them.” Response: “Oh fair enough.” ?
I hear women get it worse if they state they don’t want kids. Maybe it’s just the specific place I was born but I get way too much flack for this as well. Can’t imagine having it worse.