The Thinking Man's Bullet

sugaredvenom:

• I can be sure that people aren’t embarrassed to be seen with me because of the size of my body.
• If I pick up a magazine or watch T.V. I will see bodies that look like mine that aren’t being lampooned, desexualized, or used to signify laziness, ignorance, or lack of self-control.
• When I…

All people, whether you are fat or skinny, suffer from the same problems. Everyone has something to be self-conscious about. Whoever wrote this list is clearly a very bitter, immature and jealous person whom has decided to discriminate against “thin” people. Much in the manner that some “thin” people may discriminate against overweight people. Both are wrong and petty things to do. Does that really solve the problem. Does this list really a useful purpose?

I will be one of the first to stand up for someone being insulted/singled out/discriminated against for their body weight. No one deserves to have their appearance disrespected. But it swings both ways. To be “body positive” or whatever the term is nowadays, is to accept people’s bodies regardless of if they are fat or skinny.

Boiling down all these things into a list like this does not make you seem any better, rather, it makes the writer of it discriminative of girls with thinner and smaller figures. At the end of the day, that’s just as wrong as a slim person writing a checklist that targets overweight women in a negative light.