The Ongoing Battle for Body Positivity: Balancing Health and Self-Love

[Name] [Instructor Name] ENG 280 10 April 2024 Paper 3 Annotated Bibliography Prestige Press Sources: Ellin, A. (2020, May 7). Fighting fat discrimination, but still wanting to lose weight. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/well/eat/fat-acceptance-weight-loss-body-positive.html The New York Times is a well-known daily newspaper and website. They have an Ad Fontes rating of 42 with a -7.91 lean to the left. Abby Ellin has been an independent journalist for over 20 years. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College, in Boston. Abby Ellin has been writing for The New York Times since the 1990s and she covers an array of topics in her writing. This particular article was published on May 7, 2020 so it is a few years old, but it’s still relevant because this article touches on topics we as a society are still dealing with. This article discusses the consensus on wanting to lose weight, but still supporting the body positivity movement. We hear from women who are overweight and wanting to lose weight, but not wanting to be ashamed from the movement. This article also contains the opinions of multiple health experts in the medical field. These medical professionals are more interested in making sure your body is healthy and the feeling of happiness will follow after. This article shows more of the conservative/right side of the matter, however it’s definitely not an extreme view from the right side. This article focuses less on loving yourself as you are now, but more on having a healthy body. This article will help me write my paper because it shows just how many different opinions can be had on this topic. For example, to be able to hear from medical professionals who study these topics is very valuable to me in writing this paper. The medical opinions will help me discover just why people are so against the body positivity movement. It’s not just a black and white topic. Yeboah, S. (2020, May 30). Body positivity: Why the work is far from finished. British Vogue. https://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/article/body-positivity-movement Vogue UK is a British magazine and website based in London with its first article published back in 1916. It has an Ad Fontes scare of 38.94 with a left lean of -11.03. This article was published by Stephanie Yeboah who is a freelance writer who I would consider an expert on this topic because she has been a part of the body positivity movement since 2014 and published a book about fat liberation. Stephanie has also won 3 awards in the past, one for ‘Blogger of the Year’ in 2019, one for “Trendsetter of the Year” in 2020, and “Fashion Writer of the Year” in 2020. This article talks about how in current media we have a lot more representation for bigger bodies. Whereas if you go back 10 years this type of representation was non-existent. This article also touches on how companies on social media took the movement in a completely different direction. These big companies were only showcasing these certain women with an ideal plus size body and not normal everyday plus size bodies. The ideal plus size body is an hourglass body and that’s not very common for plus size people. When big companies started doing this the body positivity movement was no longer a movement for every body, but another movement to make certain people insecure. This article leans more to the left side as a whole because the opinions are on the side of the feelings of people and not with the health of bodies. This article was published to inform people that the work of the body positivity movement is far from over. We are just getting started in making progress. I’m going to use this article to combat the opinion that we have plus size representation already and we don’t need more because this representation is not true representation. Rosin, H. (2023, September 28). Could ozempic derail the body-positivity movement?. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2023/09/after-ozempic/675479/ The Atlantic is an American magazine and website that features many articles varying on themes. They have an Ad Fontes score of 38.44 with a left lean of -8.69. Hanna Rosin is currently a senior editor at the Atlantic and the host of Radio Atlantic, a radio show put out through The Atlantic. Hanna Rosin has also been a long time writer of The Atlantic since 2012 and also published a book, The End of Men. The book goes on to talk about the fall of Men in positions of power around the world, but particularly in the United States. The artic