identitty-dickruption:

body neutrality is NOT, “so long as you’re happy and healthy, your body is a good body”. it’s about getting rid of the idea of a “good body” at all. it’s saying that your body is A BODY, and having a body is a neutral feature of all humans. it’s saying that specific bodies shouldn’t be focussed on more than others, because all bodies are bodies

when you say “so long as you’re happy and healthy”, you’re not actually helping. because. unless you’ve put in the hard work of deconstructing what you think “happiness” and “healthiness” look like, I can guarantee “happy and healthy” is just going to loop back to ableism and fatphobia