2024-11-04
39 分钟Ronald Young Jr. is an award-winning podcaster, producer, and writer and the creator of Weight For It — a podcast about his own experience with body image. Ronald explores complex feelings and asks profound questions about how we think and talk about a sometimes taboo subject: our weight. In this episode, he joins Chris to dive into why body image culture affects us all – and shares his thoughts on how to break away from our unspoken insecurities and fears. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts
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You're listening to how to Be a Better Human.
I'm your host, Chris Duffy.
If there is one thing that I know is true of every single person who is listening to this show, it is that you have a body.
I guess as far as I know, there are no disembodied consciousnesses who are just floating around listening to the show.
But if I'm wrong about that, please send me a telepathic message.
I would love to know that you're engaged with this work.
For the rest of you the Ones with the Bodies no two of our bodies are exactly the same, and no two people have the same relationship to their body either.
For many of us, our bodies are kind of mysterious.
Like what is actually going on in there and why is it the way it is and is it okay?
And am I normal?
I mean, one of my most memorable times as an elementary school teacher was when I was leading this health class for the fifth grade boys and we were really just supposed to cover the basics like, your body is changing now, so help me out and use deodorant and try and take a shower every once in a while.
But when I pulled out the anonymous question cards every day I would get a huge range of questions of things that people wanted to know.
Everything from like, how do you know the night that puberty is going to happen?
I get where that question comes from and I love the idea that one night you go to sleep and you're a little boy and then the next you wake up and you're like a big burly man.
It happened last night and obviously that's not how it works, but I get why you would think that it does.
Or another time someone asked like, and does the body hair ever stop growing or do you just need to constantly get like haircuts all over your body?
There were all sorts of other amazing questions that got asked.
I could talk about those anonymous question cards for hours.
But the point that I'm trying to make is that even as adults, a lot of us still have so many questions about our bodies, so many things that we don't understand or are embarrassed about or are ashamed of.