15
Ways to Create a Body
Positive World
- Encourage positive comments
and try to avoid negative comments, about your own
and other people's bodies.
- Participate in physical
activities that make you feel good about yourself without
making anyone else feel bad about their body.
- Try not to make judgmental
comments about food, calories, dieting, and weight.
People of all sizes have issues around these and you
never know how you will affect people with your comments.
- Learn the facts and challenge
the myths on size and bodies.
- Compliment people more
often on their ideas, personality and accomplishments
than on their appearance and physical being.
- Try to think of bodies
as whole, functional units, rather than breaking them
down into parts. Instead of saying "I'm unhappy
with my thighs," say, "I'm pleased that my
body is capable of doing this activity well."
- Don't participate in, encourage,
or laugh at jokes that make fun of a person's size
or body.
- Accept all types of bodies
as beautiful and challenge limiting societal standard
of beauty.
- Learn about eating disorders
and seek help if you suspect that you or a friend has
a problem.
- Wear the clothes that you
like and feel comfortable in, rather than what you
think makes you look "too fat" or "too
thin."
- Try to eat when you are
hungry, enjoy your food, and take pleasure in the process
of eating, without guilt or stress over what you are
eating.
- Object to gender-based
assumptions on how bodies should look, such as "women
should be thin" or "men should be muscular."
- Support organizations and
activists who work for positive body image and ending
sizism, such as Hanne Blank.
- Teach kids at a young age
that they are beautiful just as they are!
- Understand that size and
body oppression relates to other forms of oppression,
such as sexism, racism, and homophobia and then challenge
all types of oppression.
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