Skinny Shaming - Comments

@ aradia megido.
Yeah, it's not something you can control. I mean, it is something that you could feel bad for, but it's not something you can control, it's not your fault.

I feel bad because it's mainly my friends that do. "We all can't be skinny like you." They say it with utter disgust! I feel bad. It's not like I try to stay this way. In fact, I eat constantly but my metabolism is incredibly high. I'm tired of the backlash I get for something I can't control.

@ olga
OH MY GOD, I absolutely hate it when people ask 'do you have anorexia?' or 'she's anorexic'. It's so ignorant. UGH. I hate that.

@ addesin


@ aradia megido.
Exactly! Like, as long as you're healthy and happy, it doesn't matter to other people what you look like. It doesn't change you at all. I know, and the worst part is that some people just turn the other cheek to that stuff. It's not right. I totally understand

THANK YOU.

I am only 106 lbs and I get stuff like this every single day. I get told to eat more or that I'm too skinny, like my weight is a deciding factor of how I am. People touch my neck because they think it's weird that my spine is so apparent and they make fun of my boney shoulders. I really hate it. I get called anorexic and told that I look like an alien.

It hurts and it needs to stop.

This, so much.

I get really pissy about people commenting on my weight - I'm not even underweight, I just don't weight as much as other girls my age do. I'm incredibly annoyed by comments like 'I bet I could see your ribs if you took your shirt off', 'Do you ever even eat at home'-- people just assume whatever they want, not even stopping, for a moment, to think that I maybe like my weight.

Then there is problem is incredible ignorance. "Do you have anorexia" is a question that ticks me off incredibly - it's offensive to me and it's offensive to people who actually had/have it.

@ lady_enigma
Yup. No one else's problem. I like your avatar, btw

This. So much.

:)

@ Mogar
exactly, as long as you're happy, healthy, enjoying yourself, whats the problem... with any weight

@ Deus Ex Machina
Yeah, I don't think it matters the size you are, as long as you're happy with it.

@ Vixyn Of Syn
I mean, no one should shame anyone for anything, but the fact that there's double standards about it pisses me off so much. I totally get that, I'm short too and I don't see why I need to be constantly reminded of it.

@ lady_enigma
I'm 102lbs and apparently, that's not okay. I don't think it matters. In happy with how I am, and even if I want to lose more, that's fine as long as I'm still healthy- which I am. People just need to mind their own business.

Thank you so much for posting this. Honestly I am here applauding you. It's such a valid point. so many people do make fun of skinny people and make remarks, and nobody bats an eyelid, instead everyone justbjumps on the band wagon. I often get remarks made because of my weight and because I'm still losing it. I like being thin though, I was at my happiest when I was 7 and a half stone (104lb) and before anyone goes on at me, with my height that is a healthy weight. I don't want to lose any more than that, that's as far as I want to go. But yeah that's when I was my absolute happiest time with my weight. Yea I have suffered with Anorexia, but I'm not going that far, I have no desire to keep loosing weight, I just would like to get back to tge weight I am happiest with. It really annoys me when plsomeone makes remarks at me that I need to eat more. If bigger people are allowed to be happy wirh their weight, why can't I be?

Thank you for posting this. It goes with any extremity. I have a friend who says he'd be a millionaire if he had a dollar for every time someone told him to eat a cheeseburger. My other example is not weight, but height. That's slightly off topic, but as I said, anything that makes you "different" that people constantly point out falls under the shaming category. Why is it okay for people to call me a midget and comment on how small I am (all the way around), but I can't retaliate by pointing out the things about them that could be considered flaws? I'm short because of genetics. I can't control that. Just like supposedly, most people can't help being fat...

Sorry. I've just been ranting about this for about two weeks now, every since I had a fat girl laugh when some guy said he had a fetish for midgets and meant me. I didn't feel like I could say "Do you also like fat girls? Because here ya go!"

This drives me insane. I have to play nice with fat girls while they turn around and tell me I'm not big enough. Excuse me, I like being thin.

@ Amery
Exactly what I meant with this blog! It's totally fine if you call a girl who's underweight names, but if you do it to a girl who's overweight, you're a scumbag. It's not different and it shouldn't be tolerated. Tumblr pisses me off so much sometimes. I don't think it matters if she's anorexic or not. She could be naturally skinny or she could choose to do so while being healthy- it's none of anyone's business. But yeah, the fact that she was recovering from anorexia made it all worse.

@ Mogar
I remember seeing a photo of a real skinny girl and everyone was commenting shit like "eat a burger" and "she's too skinny" and that was considered okay but it would be different if she was overweight and they were telling her to eat a salad. What most people probably didn't realise is that she was recovering from anorexia.

@ Amery
It's one of the many reasons I'm starting to strongly dislike tumblr. And yeah, shaming thin people to make heavier people feel better is not fixing anything.

@ Tholomew Plague
It's all fine, you can have your opinions and be open about it. All I'm saying is that saying rude stuff about people who are overweight is just as bad as people who are underweight and that it shouldn't be tolerated.

Oppss, double post, sorry!

Usako, My friend has no issues with herself, the fact is, society expects her to be that way, is her excuse to get people off her back. She likes being a stick, and even calls herself one. She makes jokes about blowing away in the breeze. It seems to me that the problem here, is that my country is in no way PC. So this argument will never stop. Haha Either way. What I mean by saying/thinking. Is that I dont go up tot hem and say it, it's not my place, however i do have the right to make a stupid post on the internet about it. Because it's the internet, a place for opinions and people to argue those opinions. Pretty much. This is going nowhere fast, so I wont take up anymore space in these comments, others dont wanna have to sift thru my bullshit. Haha. Good day

Amen

Tumblr is the worst for this. So many people on there constantly put out the message that bigger people are beautiful and skinny is "wrong". To me it seems like an attempt to make overweight people feel better by putting down those who are underweight or just thin. It's not okay to put anyone down.

No offense was meant, thats how we talk here. I dont even know where you are from, but where I live, it's just how we are. We arent PC, I was raised not to be. -shrug- Its percieved as rude, but it's how i was raised, to be brutally honestly. And i meant that i actually made the comment "sticks gross me out" on a blog yesterday, however i get what you are saying. All im saying is, peoples opinions shouldnt mean shit to anybody. We all think things that others dont agree with. And your blog is a good idea. However, as far as im concerned, I have been there, I feel i am in a position to make whatever remark I like, though I get your point. We just seem to be from different cultures O_O Over here, it's normal to be un PC and amazingly brutal. Its how we are perceived. :)