#thin-shaming

[elephantinthewomb-blog1]

This is fucking disgusting. Thin shaming exists and it should not be tolerated. We should not have to put down others to make ourselves feel better, that is not self-love and self-confidence. That is hatred and insecurity. No sort of body shaming should ever be allowed, whether it's thin shaming, fat shaming, tattoo or piercing shaming, nothing. None of that should be accepted in our society.

[thisistherealthinprivilege]

Losing more than 20 pounds is impossible without surgery and other crabby gems from a facebook post

[queenmobs]

……I’m No Angel……..

On Why We Can’t Let Fat People Be Happy

I’ve lived fat. As a child and teenager I was fat. A faded childhood photo shows off creamy plump cheeks secreting away my jawline, and dimpled knuckles clutch my stolen copy of The Secret Garden. I spent my entire childhood wearing caftan-style clothes that billowed and draped around my active body as I got lost in the woods behind my house. I was happy.

With the exception of a pregnancy, I have spent all of my adult life in a body that people classify as thin. Many of my adult years I was too thin, so thin that I was laid out in a suburban hospital bed like a sheet of legal pad paper and force-fed emulsified pablum smoothies. My body has expanded and contracted with age, excessive exercise, natural hormone fluctuations and dangerous eating disorders. I hope that this duality of experience affords me the integrity to write about some of the media response we’ve seen to Lane Bryant‘s new social media campaign, #ImNoAngel.

Lane Bryant is a plus-size retailer committed to producing clothing for bodies that aren’t represented in the average mall clothing store; the company promises clothes that are more than a simple upsizing of existing fashions. Instead they design their lines with the intention of fitting the bodies they market to, a truly rare concept in the “plus-size” industry.

As an extension of their clothing line, the Lane Bryant franchise includes Cacique, intimate apparel catering to the belief that a woman’s size should not define her relationship with lingerie or her sexual body.

La Senza, Victoria’s Secret and Calvin Klein don’t bother making much effort to design thongs, intricately nuanced lace bras or garter belts for women over size 14. Instead, mall and boxstore consumers are offered the choice of fitting into the regiment of arbitrary size charts or purchasing the sexless, shapeless and antiquated beige underclothes that are relegated to back corners of department store basements. Sure, the options exist for properly designed and beautiful plus-size lingerie and have done in large quantities since the advent of web-based shopping, but it remains difficult to access, unseen and exorbitant in cost.

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[feministcurrent]

If you don’t understand what it’s like to live in this world as a woman, ask a woman (there’s one thing Sigman is right on: talking to women). If you think it’s so unattractive for women to have insecurities or to worry about their bodies and appearances, stop focusing first and foremost on women’s bodies and appearances. Stop watching porn, stop objectifying women on the street, stop describing women’s physical traits as though they speak to her personhood. “She has a cute ass,” is not relevant to anything, ever. The way that patriarchy works is that is tells men that they are the default human and that women, therefore, exist only in relation to men. And this is precisely what Sigman’s theory reinforces. Stop making our existence about you. There. Problem solved.

If men want women to have better body image, maybe they should stop focusing so much on our bodies

[anti-fattitude]

It doesn't matter how healthy you are, how much you work out or how clean you eat, as a thin person you cannot post a picture in a bikini without people telling you to eat more, that you're disgusting and unrealistic or something with the word "curves" every other sentence.

[gurl]

14 Things You Say That You Don’t Realize Are Thin-Shaming

I’m ALL about using healthy models. I used to be in the modeling industry, and I think using healthy models is extremely important. However, in this situation, there wasn’t an investigation to see if the model had been Photoshopped to death. On the Urban Outfitters’ side, a representative stated, “The model was represented by one of the UK’s most successful and well-respected agencies. We do not believe she was underweight.” To me, this seems like an aggressive Photoshop job, but I also know as someone who is healthy with a thigh gap that it is possible to look that way.

It got me thinking about how thin women are still easily shamed. We’re expected to just roll over and deal with the fact that people think we’re unhealthy or have an eating disorder by just looking at us. That’s not okay. And if you’re saying any of the following, you’re contributing to thin-shaming and should stop.

[cantelle]

This is a really long article that I think is really important for everyone to read. It discusses the difference between “fat-shaming” and “thin/skinny-shaming” and how they are both wrong and sexist, but also different. It really explains my point of view on the subject. Shaming any body type is wrong. End of story. It hurts everyone’s feelings. But only one is actually oppressive. And although I do not doubt the negative impact thin-shaming has on people, because shaming in general is an awful, awful thing, I am often bothered by the comparison people make between it and fat-shaming. When someone shames my body for being fat, it hurts me the same way I believe thin-shaming hurts other people. I am affected. And like when people are thin-shamed, I then have to find a way to pick myself back up. But then I also have to deal with the fact that my clothes can only be found at certain locations and often double the price. That the media does not adequately show my size in entertainment unless it is to ridicule or use as a prop/pun. That my doctors won’t listen to my medical needs because apparently my weight is the source of any and all health concerns I mignt have. This is where the difference lies. The shame I recieve is a product of oppression put on all overweight people. Thin-shaming is a result of mean spirited people/groups. I think it’s important to distinguish the difference. However, I still think it’s imperative that all forms of body-shaming stop entirely. No one deserves to feel terrible about their body.

[emeebee]

Take a look at any tabloid cover. The “So-and-So Has Cellulite!” headline is right next to the “Does So-and-So Have an Eating Disorder?” story. And they both convey the same message: “Ew! Gross!” For fuck’s sake, we just can’t win. And not to go all conspiracy theory on you, but that’s exactly what they want.

Melissa A. Fabello - Let's Talk About Thin Privilege