extreme-ughhhhh replied to your post “So this is a totally useless rant, but as a skinny girl, I’m getting...”
The line about "big beautiful girls" was enough. Saying shit like "real women are fat and skinny women are barbie dolls" is bad. Because guess what. Skinny women can often have metabolism problems and disorders (anorexia, bulimia). Are they not real women because of that? Or because they make a constant, huge effort to maintain a fit and healthy body? Fat shaming is shit. And insulting a person for being fat is wrong. Don't do it to the opposite side. My 2 cents.
I’m making a new rule that anyone who wants to accuse me of skinny-shaming with that post owes me $5. Nowhere, at no point, did I say “real women are fat and skinny women are barbie dolls.” I said, “We make corsets for real women [who come in all shapes and sizes], not Barbie dolls [uniformly idealized thin bodies with big boobs].”
Don’t lecture me on the existence of EDs and other health conditions. I am well and consciously aware of them. And don’t lecture me on what’s demeaning to skinny women and what’s not. I’ve been a skinny girl my whole life and I’m extremely familiar with the myriad strains of anti-thin rhetoric that get thrown around (sometimes in the name of fat positivity and sometimes not).
It’s absurd to me that people would think that I, a skinny woman who’s perfectly happy as a skinny woman, would go around insinuating that women like me aren’t real women. All women are real women, regardless of their bodies or their health. I don’t know why some people are so eager to misconstrue fat positivity as saying that skinny is bad, but it frankly smacks of “I am uncomfortable when we are not about me?”
Also, fit and healthy do not equal thin.