I think there are movements which already cater to the empowerment of disabled people, cancer survivors etc. The body positivity and fat acceptance movements serve a completely different type of person and fight a completely different struggle. Just because there is a semantic similarity (yes, I get it - they both want people to be "positive" about their "bodies") doesn't mean it serves any purpose to conflate empowering disabled people with fat people or very thin people.
If you consistently apply the logic of your first paragraph, why would you encourage body positivity in amputees either? Don't they also deviate from "ideal" "health"? Why encourage body positivity in anyone other than the most "healthy" people? The answer is that body positivity isn't an exclusive club to which only the "healthiest" should be admitted. It should be for everyone.
Also, body positivity doesn't "advocate" any body shape or size. That's the whole point.
Finally, why does the health of other people concern you so much? Why does it have anything to do with you? Serious question.
Amputees don't usually have a choice of being amputated..? My father is a body builder and I met with a friend of his that had his arm removed due to the army. Along with other amputees, they are many that are healthy and honestly more fit than I am, they have dedicated their life to not be defeated by their loss. I don't know what you mean by "ideal health" but you can be missing two limbs and still be healthy.
Anyways, if somebody is happy being significantly emaciated or obese is, whatever. But I am not going to accept saying that it is okay to be very dangerously over/under weight or say that it is good for ANYBODY.
IIN that I think of "body positivity" in a different way?
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I think there are movements which already cater to the empowerment of disabled people, cancer survivors etc. The body positivity and fat acceptance movements serve a completely different type of person and fight a completely different struggle. Just because there is a semantic similarity (yes, I get it - they both want people to be "positive" about their "bodies") doesn't mean it serves any purpose to conflate empowering disabled people with fat people or very thin people.
If you consistently apply the logic of your first paragraph, why would you encourage body positivity in amputees either? Don't they also deviate from "ideal" "health"? Why encourage body positivity in anyone other than the most "healthy" people? The answer is that body positivity isn't an exclusive club to which only the "healthiest" should be admitted. It should be for everyone.
Also, body positivity doesn't "advocate" any body shape or size. That's the whole point.
Finally, why does the health of other people concern you so much? Why does it have anything to do with you? Serious question.
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Amputees don't usually have a choice of being amputated..? My father is a body builder and I met with a friend of his that had his arm removed due to the army. Along with other amputees, they are many that are healthy and honestly more fit than I am, they have dedicated their life to not be defeated by their loss. I don't know what you mean by "ideal health" but you can be missing two limbs and still be healthy.
Anyways, if somebody is happy being significantly emaciated or obese is, whatever. But I am not going to accept saying that it is okay to be very dangerously over/under weight or say that it is good for ANYBODY.