naked souls
VULGAR DISPLAY OF POSITIVITY
BY VIRGINIA MAYER
116
| OCTOBER 2021
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HE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO mind when I heard Lizzo was: Talent. Then I saw her playing the flute and I understood she is a real artist. I had so much respect for her. At the beginning she was just an artist. A fat artist, for sure. But her shape was irrelevant to me. Then she started uploading these grotesque videos of herself twerking on social media and I disconnected. The woman has the right to do whatever she wants, and I have the right to find it obscene. My problem (and real argument against what she’s doing) initiated when she started calling her hunger for approval: “Body positivity”. I am sick of seeing the vulgar display of her ass. I too am a fat woman. I too live in a world where fat women are not the major preference, but I had to learn the world doesn’t have to accept me. I have to accept myself. And, let me get this out of the way REAL QUICK: “Body positivity” is not begging for approval while
