How we swapped ‘body positivity’ progress for the ultra-thin look | Schmeitgeist | ABC Australia
June 21, 2023
1,093
17
1.56%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
Abc Australia Episodes Around June 21, 2023
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
38:46Now PlayingHow we swapped ‘body positivity’ progress for the ultra-thin look | Schmeitgeist | ABC Australia
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelThe ‘body positivity’ decade is over, and the ultra-skinny look has made a return.
The message that all bodies are beautiful has given way to a resurgence in diet culture and obsessive body checking on TikTok and Instagram.
So what happened to all that supposed progress, and why are we suddenly backsliding into the toxic size standards of the 90s and 2000s?
Or maybe the notion of thinness as a virtue never really went away?
In this episode of Schmeitgeist, we investigate the reasons why ten years of body positivity messaging has seemingly evaporated.
We’re also exploding some of the biggest lies propping up the pro-thin culture that’s replacing it.
Featured:
Alyx Gorman, Lifestyle Editor, Guardian Australia
Aubrey Gordon, author and podcaster, Maintenance Phase
Subscribe ✅ and tap the notification bell 🔔 to be delivered Australian stories every day.
Please note: On most of our videos, the captions/subtitles are auto-generated by YouTube.
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel. Contributions may be removed if they violate ABC's Online Conditions of Use (Section 3).
Links & Promotions
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.