As always, here is some music to go along with my post.
This is Lydia Paek & Crush covering Justin Timberlake's Pusher Love Girl (my repeat song of the week :)
I normally don't "rant" I suppose. However, I feel the urge to say something. As a girl I know the craziness surrounding body issues, and I am very happy that people are fighting against this "ideal" look that has been circulating within media. With that said, I also am starting to get annoyed because there has been a new phrase thrown around to combat the pressures of being skinny that I think is just as bad.
Ok before you jump to conclusions and think I'm just a super skinny little Asian girl who is probably a size zero and an extra small, who's just trying to make an issue about nothing. I am not a size 0, I'm not fat either at the moment, but there was a point in time when I was heavily overweight. This whole new movement educating women to be healthy and to love who they are, and that all sizes matter, shouldn't 0 also matter?
I have friends who eat, in fact a lot, and are still skinny. Am I jealous, sure am, but is it their fault? No. Their body's just metabolize faster and from family genetics they are smaller. They got the luckier end of the draw in that department. Now just because they are tiny, people are constantly telling them to eat and to gain weight because they assume just because they are so thin they probably don't eat properly. But those are just assumptions you are putting on them. I have many complacent thin friends, who think they will be skinny forever (and some of them do), but I also have some who know they might lose it one day so they exercise, they eat right, they stay healthy and they maintain their lean look. But now, just like how larger people are getting bashed, thin people are also getting the heat.
But think about the psychological issues that go with the flip side. Say your once skinny friend one day did gain weight. Will you then say, "WOW you look fantastic, you've put on 30 pounds?" Or will the reaction mostly be negative and people will wonder, "Oh what happened, you used to be so skinny?"
People that voice out their opinions about weight issues shouldn't so easily target the people who happen to look like those ideals. It's not fair to them either. This whole thing is suppose to be about equality, about health, and about just "loving the skin you're in" (I forget what brand's tag phrase that is at the moment, sorry). But somehow I feel it's somewhat turning into an anti-skinny people campaign.
So if you're going to stand for something, please stand for acceptance and equality. Please stand for health and life, and please forget the numbers and accept all sizes. All women are beautiful, any shape, any size, any colour, and that's what we should be standing up for.
