To the people who believe skinny shaming doesn't exist,
I'm so sorry you are too ignorant to realize our society idolizes "real women" by degrading those who are naturally thin. I'm not referring to the unhealthy, Photoshopped model skinny; I'm talking about the girls who have a fast metabolism and have always been on the smaller side. If skinny shaming doesn't exist, then please explain to me why thousands of people have called me too thin, anorexic and disgusting and have said things to me like, "I'm worried about your eating," "are you ill" or the typical, "go eat a cheeseburger." What is wrong with being thin?
Why are you allowed to love your curves, but it's wrong for me to love my bones?
Why is it OK for you to call me anorexic, but wrong for me to call you fat?
Why can you tell me to gain weight, if can't I tell you to lose weight?
"But you're skinny! How could you possibly be self-conscious? Most girls wish they looked like you. You have it easy." Simply because a person is naturally small doesn't mean they are happy with their bodies. Every person faces their own personal struggles, which has nothing to do with the size they wear. Many of these insecurities could be from the society we live in, and even those who we look up to, specifically in the media. Take Meghan Trainor, for example. She is a confident, curvy, successful women, and she likes to make that known... by shaming people who are smaller than her. Now, what does that teach the younger generations? It's OK to be "easy" on those who may be a bit curvier or even obese because fat shaming is completely unacceptable, but god forbid if a person is thin, they deserve to be criticized because they display a "false reality" of what a woman should look like?
Why is "natural beauty" defined by what men can grab and squeeze? Because men "don't want a bag of bones." Society refers to curvy girls as the "real girls." So, if you're skinny, you're suddenly imaginary? All women are real women.
We need to stop this trend by degrading one size to make another size feel better about themselves. The size of a person doesn't change who that person is on the inside and should not force that person to dislike themselves.
If you can feel beautiful for being big, then I can feel beautiful for being small. Stop the body shaming.
