The callipygous feminist: dear thin people ↘

randomlancila:

fatcatsandcurls:

dollarstore-princess:

sizeism is not your movement

it belongs to the fatties

take a back seat 

thank you

for every time I see someone talk about thin shaming and how it’s not fair when fatties put down other bodies to make themselves feel good

putting up fat bodies =/= putting down thin bodies

putting up fat bodies does not threaten your right to happiness and fulfillment the way that the idealization of thin bodies does to fat people.

sorry you’re threatened by fat love, but as said above… IT’S NOT YOUR MOVEMENT

WHOA this is EXTREMELY problematic for me.

Sizeism is EVERYONE’S movement. In fact, I’m pretty sure most definitions of sizeism would say that it’s discrimination based on the size of someone’s body. Full stop. As in, doesn’t matter if the discrimination is because someone is ‘too’ big or ‘too’ small. 

Yes, thin privilege is a thing and yes, there are things that people will never truly understand unless they are fat. And yes, especially when it comes to mass media, fat hate is way, WAY more prevalent than thin hate.  But that doesn’t mean thin hate doesn’t exist, or more importantly, that it’s not hurtful. No one can honestly tell me that calling someone who’s naturally skinny ‘anorexic’ and constantly telling them to eat more, or that they look sick isn’t sizeism. The pissing game of what’s more hurtful or what’s more acceptable accomplishes NOTHING.

It’s never going to be acceptable to put down ANY body type. ‘Real women have curves’? ‘Only dogs like bones’? Assuming someone doesn’t eat because they’re thin? Uh. Yeah. That’s sizeism. And no, it’s not fair.

To assume that people of ALL shapes and sizes aren’t affected by the $60+ billion a year weight loss industry is just flat out wrong. Even people with the most ‘perfect’ bodies are made to feel like they’re not enough. That’s what media is about. Exploiting EVERYONE’S insecurities and making money off it. While the experience of a thin person may be much different, that doesn’t mean it’s any less painful.

You cannot call yourself body positive if you think sizeism only belongs to fat people.

Sizeism is a form of oppression.  It’s an ism.  It implies institutional and systematic oppression.  No one should ever feel bad about their bodies, however, when thin people claim sizeism for themselves, it reminds me of when white people cry “reverse racism” because someone hurt their feelings because they’re white.  

Does that mean anyone should insult another person? Of course not, but thin people do not experience systematic and institutional oppression.  Does the media affect everyone’s self esteem? Yes, but this is about so much more than that.  No thin person’s employment is affected by their size, no thin person has to pay higher insurance rates because of their size, no thin person doesn’t go to the doctor’s and is therefore at a higher risk for medical problems because rather than examining their body doctors tell them to just lose weight, no thin person is told that their body type is an epidemic that must be solved, no thin person has to worry about positive representation of themselves in the media, no thin person has to pay extra amounts of money to travel because of their size, no thin person experiences the amount of shame because of their body… people HATE fat, they don’t just dislike it on their bodies a little bit they HATE it they despise it they think it’s disgusting and vile.  Thin people do not experience systematic and institutional oppression because of their size.

Sizeism is not the body acceptance movement.

Everyone should love and accept their body! Everyone should feel comfortable with their size! 

That doesn’t mean that sizeism applies to thin bodies, because it just doesn’t.

As a fat person - and as someone who has promoted body acceptance for quite some time - I cannot help but think this argument regarding “sizeism” is a little biased.

I understand that we live in a world run by a system that idolizes smaller bodies over larger bodies. I have lived through it. Everyone lives through it. It’s unavoidable.

However, by saying that sizeism only applies to people of larger size, you are in fact perpetuating sizeism. Comments like that make a divide between people that doesn’t need to be made. 

I honestly don’t care if the individual in question is skinny, fat, tall, or short; the moment you make a comment like “sizeism only applies to fat people,” you promote exclusivity and that is wrong.

And if the body acceptance movement is designed to make people know that persons of all body types are wonderful, let the movement do its job. It’s designed to crush sizeism for just this very reason (because sizeism, as it’s being currently defined, is apparently exclusive).

Let’s not make sizeism a privilege that only larger people deserve to hold over the heads of others.