APPEAR, Department of Applied Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, USA; Department of Psychiatric Emergency & Acute Care, Lapeyronie Hospital, CHRU, Montpellier, France.
WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust, Coventry, UK.
Body Image. 2020 Jun;33:199-206. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.03.005. Epub 2020 Apr 16.
The body positive movement emerged in response to pressure to pursue the unattainable thin ideal, and promotes a more accepting stance towards the body. To date, however, little is known regarding the nature of online body positive content. Using publicly available data from a large online discussion platform (Reddit), all the forums to which commenters on a body acceptance forum (N = 1262) had also contributed were identified. For each pairing of 50 representative forums (i.e., a large number and proportion of body acceptance commenters), the commenter-overlap between the two forums was used to compute a network model, to detect communities of body acceptance commenters. By manually reviewing the topics of each community's forums, the shared interests of these commenters were identified. The majority of commenters (86 %) contributed to forums relating to women, feminism, relationships and support, and mental health. Large proportions of the commenters also revealed an interest in topics including body weight/shape, eating, exercise, and cosmetics. These findings confirm that original feminist tenets of body positivity remain present. However, our findings also suggest the existence of a sizeable subgroup interacting with topics related to the thin ideal, perhaps illustrating a gradual absorption of the body positive movement into mainstream culture.
身体积极性运动是为了应对追求遥不可及的瘦理想的压力而出现的，它提倡对身体有更包容的态度。然而，迄今为止，对于在线身体积极性内容的性质，我们知之甚少。本研究使用来自大型在线讨论平台（Reddit）的公开可用数据，确定了身体接受论坛评论者（N=1262）所贡献的所有论坛。对于每对 50 个代表性论坛（即大量和大量身体接受评论者），两个论坛之间评论者的重叠被用于计算网络模型，以检测身体接受评论者的社区。通过手动审查每个社区论坛的主题，确定了这些评论者的共同兴趣。大多数评论者（86%）都参与了与女性、女权主义、关系和支持以及心理健康有关的论坛。很大比例的评论者还对包括体重/体型、饮食、锻炼和化妆品在内的话题表现出兴趣。这些发现证实了身体积极性运动的最初女权主义原则仍然存在。然而，我们的研究结果还表明，存在一个相当大的亚组与与瘦理想相关的话题互动，这也许说明了身体积极性运动正在逐渐被主流文化所吸收。
