The drug's popularity shows that most people — even the body-positive ones — don't want to be obese

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Ever since Ozempic hit the market as a weight-loss drug, fat activists of the world appear to have been cycling (not literally, of course) between the five stages of grief.

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There has been anger: one learned fat scholar suggested in 2023 that weight-loss drugs like Ozempic “relate to eugenicist social practices.” Some accused persons who lost weight of having undergone conversion therapy — because there seems to be no historical struggle or oppression that these activists aren’t willing to appropriate for their cause.

Other activists reached the “acceptance” stage very early on, even before half of Hollywood dropped a collective 10 dress sizes: a Guardian headline from two years ago claimed that “Ozempic has won, body positivity has lost, and I want no part of it.”

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