what are your thoughts on ‘skinny shaming’?
As someone who has been “thin-shamed” I can say it does Not at all go hand in hand with fat shaming. People “thin-shaming” me was mostly verbal harassment- you’re too skinny, you look like a boy, eat a fucking cheeseburger, what’s wrong with you why don’t you like food?
But guess what, I don’t have a problem finding clothes that fit me. There aren’t companies that refuse to make clothes for my size. There is no shortage of messages telling me that despite the harassment of some, I am still beautiful and ideal even if I’m unhealthy. Despite being thin-shamed, I still PANICKED when I started a medicine that made me gain weight, and I had to really analyze that, because no matter what my culture will still say that “fat is unideal” “fat is bad” and “honestly its fine to starve yourself / but shameful and bad to overeat.”
So “thin-shaming” is shitty because it’s shitty to be judged and have people make assumptions about you. But Fat-shaming is institutional, it’s not just individuals harassment and judgement, it’s potential jobs, it’s clothing companies, it’s media and advertisement, all telling you you’re bad as you are. Like what a way shittier thing.
This is the difference.
you people are so dumb do you know how hard it is to find clothes sizes small/extra small that arent “xd random tacoz” shirts in the kids section
like back in freshman year i wanted to get anime merch to wear so i went to hot topic (i was young okay) and literally the only sizes they carried for literally all of the anime shirts (except for like 3 shirts that werent the designs i liked the most) were large and extra large (and occasionally a medium) because “we dont need small size shirts” ……..bitch……………………..
also even on small size pants if i dont wear a belt my pants literally sag down and its so annoying and i hate it like fuckin why are you tailoring the small pants for ppl w wide hips youre missing the whole point of thE SMALL SIZE……..
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