“I want to talk about why people think it’s okay to tell slim people they need to put weight on.'
She added that as “society often promotes the thin ideal standard of beauty”, being insulted for being slim doesn’t bring about the same real-world impact as fat-shaming.I felt this difference most when seeking ED treatment; when I was underweight, “skinny-shaming” hurt, but nobody denied I was suffering and needed help. When I experienced a relapse 10 years later, my BMI now in the “overweight” category, suddenly my mental health experiences were treated differently.
For these reasons and more – my experience as someone who would still be considered ‘slim’ can only encapsulate some of what people subjected to fatphobia have gone through – it’s dangerous to assume “skinny-shaming” is the most pervasive form of body-shaming. This conversation is more nuanced than one article can do justice to – the body ideals for women of colour, trans women, and disabled women for example are each different and oppressive in their own ways – but alleviating the pressure on all women to look a certain way could boil down to dismantling the system that seesBody-shaming in any way is inexcusable, but ending body-shaming will not come through pitting slim women and fat women against each other, instead through banding together to...
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