Bye-Bye, Body Positivity
Let’s face it, even famously curvy women, like Meghan Trainor, want to be thin now that they have the option. Can you blame them?
“It was never a moral failure to be bigger, and it isn’t a moral win to be skinny.” (Michael Tran/AFP via Getty Images)
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Yeah, it’s pretty clear, I ain’t no size two
But I can shake it, shake it, like I’m supposed to do
’Cause I got that boom boom that all the boys chase
And all the right junk in all the right places
So sang Meghan Trainor on her 2014 hit, “All About That Bass.” Except, when she stepped onto a red carpet earlier this month looking like the kind of “stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll” she used to sing about, fans moaned. “I like the old Meghan Trainor,” wrote a commenter under her post. “Such a pity that yet another body-positive woman has yet again done exactly what they were supposed to be against,” read another.
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