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Body Positive Brainwashing
I am not religious. I subscribe to very little other than Netflix, PBS, and public radio. Group-think is really not my style- which is probably why my college social experience was so low yield. But there is one brainwashing movement I can totally get behind: Body Positive. As a female feminist, it sadly took me about 24 years and one baby to realize that I was being sold a body image that I didn’t even try to buy. After the birth of Bean, I was only 24, but things just weren’t quite the same- my tummy was pudgy and loose, my normally perky barely-B breasts were the size of swollen…