Skinny Shaming

It's amazing that I actually have to remind people this but: skinny shaming is just as bad as fat shaming. Body shaming of ANY kind of body is bad. It's naive and ignorant to pretend it isn't. Every body is unique. That's a fact to be celebrated, in my opinion, but apparently in society it's a bad thing; we don't all fit into a perfect cookie cutter shape. Some people are naturally big.. some people are naturally thin. There is no shame in either of these facts, but there is a lot of shame in how society treats each of them. 

Telling a thin woman to "eat a sandwich" is just as offensive as telling a bigger woman to "put the sandwich down."  Telling a skinny woman things like "bones are for dogs" and "real men like curves" is rude and cruel. Trying to tell women with natural thigh gaps that it means their vagina is "loose" (it's surrounded by fucking muscle, by the way. Muscles can be toned even if that "fact" was true) because your thighs touch is pitiful.You should never try to overcome your own body issues by putting another body type down, it doesn't work. If you genuinely feel better after saying these types of things to people, your body issues aren't the main ones you should be focusing on.

Skinny people have insecurities too. Skinny people also struggle with finding the right clothing, strangers judgments and remarks, and body issues. Skinny people have BODY ISSUES and suffer body shame, just like the rest of us.

It's stressed so much that fat is not a dirty word... but you know what? Neither is skinny. Or thin. None of these words are "dirty", none of them should be used with negative connotations. They're just harmless adjectives that people have decided to use as verbal weapons against others.