Hey, fellow folks with thin privilege (you should know who you are): We need to talk. I’ve been seeing a lot of people equating skinny shaming and fat shaming — and I want to declare, on the record, that this is wrong and harmful. There is a huge difference between skinny shaming and fat shaming, and it’s a difference of scale and systemic power dynamics. Body shaming against … [Read more...]
There is No Such Thing as a Normal Body: Celebrating Your Body in the Face of Fatphobia
I remember once when I was thirteen years old, and in the middle of PE class. A teacher came along and told us that we would soon be having swimming lessons over at a nearby private school’s swimming facilities. At first, I was excited. I like swimming, I had a swimming pool at home, and my standard swimming costume of a one-piece, a rash shirt, and board shorts was something I … [Read more...]
Breaking Down Beauty Standards: The Difference Between ‘Too Fat’ Models and ‘Too Thin’ Models
The other day I came across an article entitled ‘Facebook was right to remove an advert featuring plus-sized model Tess Holliday’. Starting with the line ‘Images of significantly overweight women are as damaging as [images of] size zero women’, this article explains that promotional material featuring Holliday was banned from Facebook because the images were showing a state of … [Read more...]
