#size equality

[0ntheplusside]

Someday soon I would like to see 3 catagories of model in the fashion industry Slim, Average & Plus Size

lisalamb

[fuckindiabolical]

If your feminist clothing brand does not carry plus sizes it’s not feminist. Pass it on.

[shitpostsuperstar]

I seriously wonder why the fat activist community loves their high waisted bikinis but they never seem to wear a string bikini. Isn't obesity beautiful?

[dollzkull]

How can they make 'once size fits most' more inclusive? If they made them bigger, to fit fat people, they would be too big for small people...

That’s an interesting concept, isn’t it? Something not fitting thin people. Almost unimaginable, right? And the idea of it, the even absolutely vague and practical impossibility of it happening already seems to bother you. Well, welcome to the world of size inequality and discrimination.

But it leads us right to why the whole concept of “one size fits all” or “one size fits most” is so fucked up. It’s a complete contradiction in terms in a world where people of different sizes and statures exist. It is destined to exclude one end or the other. A size 8 is not going to fit someone who’s a size 20. A size 20 is not going to fit someone who is a size 8.

So we’ve established that the mere existence of this term, this “sizing” is messed up. But the way it is being used, it’s being used to exclude and discriminate against people larger than a certain size, usually a very small size already, but it definitely is a part of fat discrimination in fashion.

So, ok, maybe I should have phrased it differently. Get rid of “one size fits all/most”, because it is a lie, it is a euphemism.

If this is the submission to TITP which I made last I remember saying, without scrolling back for ages, that the industry has become more “honest” about “one size fits all” by some shops calling it “one size fits most”. But that makes it in no way any less problematic.

So, in conclusion to answer your question: They can’t. There is no way to make “one size fits all/most” more inclusive. It is inherently discriminatory.”

[crochetandclockwork]

Legit so happy my favourite shopping website now stocks a size 16-20something range because i always felt so guilty when they only stocked my size and thereabouts but also sizes 4 and 6. Almost everything I own is from boohoo and now I'm less embarrassed because they no longer only dress the thin ^_^

[lauradhere]

When a guy prefers heavier girls: WOW SUCH A GOOD GUY OMG SIZE EQUALITY CURVES ARE BEAUTIFUL FUCK YEAH

When a girl prefers heavier guys: Sooo you're a chubby chaser...?

DO YOU SEE THE PROBLEM HERE

[agendercadence]

[dollzkull]

I find it really sad that big girls can only be found in the "plus size" or "fat" tags. It isn't required for skinny girls to tag themselves as "skinny". No one should feel the need to tag themselves by their body size. Tag yourselves as pretty, because you are, tag yourselves by your style, a trend or the subject of your actual picture. Your body size does not define you.

Seriously, there's such a difference between how how skinny girls tag themselves and how bigger/plus size/fat or whatever girls tag themselves (there are so many words for it, actually, it's bloody exhausting.)

Not only how they tag themselves, but also how they get tagged in reblogs. The few reblogs there are. Take a popular example. A skinny girl in "nu goth" will get a few hundred notes. A bigger girl will probably be happy if she gets under ten. But I think part of the problem is that those girls are faaaar too invisible.

But this is how the world conditions us. It conditions us to define ourselves only by our size and our size is not ok, shouldn't be seen and we should certainly not be proud of how we look. We do not get encouraged to stand out, wear outgoing makeup or take pictures of ourselves, let alone show them to the world at large. Instead we are told we'll be allowed and able to do all these things once we've shrunk down to a certain "acceptable" size.

My followers have probably noticed how I tag. I tag relatively equally, tag by, say, interests.

I do realise there are exceptions. Plus size girls do want to stay in their "group", let's say. Hey, sometimes I do, too. And sometimes it's a good way to share where to get fashion in our size. But we shouldn't be limited to that. We're not a separate entity to the rest of the world. We shouldn't be, no matter how much society wants to make us feel like we are "other" and "different" in a negative way.

And yes, for certain purposes, skinny girls tag themselves or are tagged as skinny. Though I have to say in a majority of the cases I have seen the tags also included things like "thinspiration." And don't even get me started on the rageon I get when I see a fat girl tagged as "thinspiration". The only person who has the right to do so is the person in the photo themselves.

I guess I just really wish more big girls felt they could tag themselves the same way skinny girls do. I wish they DID tag themselves (and others) that way.

I ENCOURAGE YOU: TAG YOURSELF AS PRETTY, AS BEAUTIFUL, BY YOUR STYLE, BY ANYTHING THAT PERTAINS TO YOUR PICTURE. DON'T JUST TAG YOURSELF BY YOUR BODY SIZE. THERE ARE SO MANY IMPORTANT THINGS ABOUT YOU ON THE LIST BEFORE YOU GET TO BODY SIZE.

Further, I would really love to see some more blogs take on a more equal posting and tagging system. Have a plus size girl? Why even bother tagging her as such. It surely cannot be the only thing you see in her. If it is, please open your eyes.