I hate to sound callous, but I don’t really care why people want to change their bodies. I am simply glad for them when they feel better about themselves afterwards.
I’m at a loss for how such an open-minded and kind statement could be interpreted as callous. It just sounds like the obvious Right Thing. Am I missing something here?
It could, but hopefully in the context of LW wouldn’t, be interpreted as ‘the fact that you’re distressed doesn’t matter; your preference for a certain kind of body is no more significant than $LowStatusGroup’s similar and low-status preference’.
I’m at a loss for how such an open-minded and kind statement could be interpreted as callous. It just sounds like the obvious Right Thing. Am I missing something here?
It could, but hopefully in the context of LW wouldn’t, be interpreted as ‘the fact that you’re distressed doesn’t matter; your preference for a certain kind of body is no more significant than $LowStatusGroup’s similar and low-status preference’.