So Much For Body Positivity

According to this, Rosie Mercado, a plus-size model pictured above, recently faced the wrath of “fat activists” who were angry with her for losing 250 pounds.

Yes, you read that correctly.  There are FAT ACTIVISTS.  These are people who’ve been so totally warped by the whole “body positivity” movement that they’ve taken it to an absurd conclusion:  That fat people should be so happy and positive about their fatness, that they should never want to lose weight.

If you think about it, it makes perfect sense coming from a movement which embraces the morbid obesity of Tess Holliday, for example.  (If you missed out on that earlier discussion, you can catch up right here.)

But back to Rosie.  Rosie Mercado, a 36-year old mom of three, was 410 pounds at her heaviest, and a size 34 (compared to Tess Holliday’s size 22). Rosie said she made the decision to lose the weight after she was told by a flight attendant that she’d have to buy an extra plane seat because she was too large to fit in just one.  Rosie was public and open about her journey of losing weight, sharing the changes of her body and even talking about her subsequent tummy tuck and skin removal surgery.  While she’s still considered plus-size, she loves the freedom she says losing 250 pounds has brought her, and doesn’t miss ANYTHING about being 410 pounds.

But since losing over 250 pounds and since becoming a size 12/14, Rosie has been receiving hate mail about her transformation.  She’s been told, by fat activists, to kill herself.

I’m not making this up.

She told TMZ:

“I got hate mail…Not so much from the other models, just fans that hated on me. They told me to go jump off a bridge and kill myself for losing weight. Fat activists, there you go. Yeah fat activists, they just hated the thought I was really public about my weight loss and I was losing weight.”

Why do you suppose that is?  Could it be because WANTING to lose weight pretty much negates that whole notion of body positivity at any size?

She went on:

“I think it’s a personal choice and you’ve just got to take it, there’s good and bad that comes with any life choice and changes so you know what? You’ve just got to let it go and not pay attention to the negative remarks.”

I appreciate her attitude about the threats and hatemail she received, but it’s a pretty sad statement about how completely wack the most rabid body positivity zealots can be.  There should literally be no such thing as a “fat activist.”  If you want to be fat, that’s your deal.  But to take part in activism that shames others for NOT being fat?  That’s wack.

Thoughts?