rossanawalks:

girlgrowingsmall:

stophatingyourbody:

I’ve been seeing this first picture going around on facebook and it’s driving me UP A WALL.

This, folks, is what we call BODY SHAMING. The minute you start putting down one body type in favor of another, you are NOT HELPING THINGS. In today’s society, when EVERYONE is being told constantly (400+ times a day, and that’s a proven fact) that they’re not good enough or they need to change something to be ‘hot’ or ‘sexy’, you cannot possibly blame people for wanting to change their bodies. You have no way of judging why ANY of those women look the way they do. Some people naturally have bodies that are that thin. And yes, some people starve themselves to look like that. But shaming someone for what is quite literally a disease is the lowest of the low. Regardless, no body type is any more or less ‘hot’ than ANY other body type. ALL bodies are good bodies, ALL of us are fighting a hard battle. Don’t think for one moment that you have the right to judge anyone. You wouldn’t like it if the scrutiny was on you.

Love,

Amber

BE BRAVE! JOIN THE BODY PEACE REVOLUTION!

I disagree. I don’t think that this is intrinsically body shaming. I think that people are choosing to view it in that negative perspective because such a response has become reflexive whenever a curvy girl is pictured next to a not-so-curvy girl. The illustration says, “When did this become hotter than this?” That’s not shaming the skinny girls. The way I see it, it’s saying they are both EQUALLY beautiful and one should not be perceived as hotter than the other. Did you try looking at it from that perspective? Hm? No. You didn’t. Because frankly, the body positive community is getting a bit out of control.

Any image of a woman now must be accompanied by a 20-line disclaimer specifying that she is not the only example of the female form and we’re all beautiful and yada yada yada. Look, I’m all for respecting all body types. But when I stand next to one of my skinny-mini friends, it’s not an immediate commentary on societal standards of beauty or me trying to say I look better than her or her trying to say the inverse. If we’re all equal, we need to stop rambling about it and start treating it like common knowledge. Stop panicking every time a skinny girl posts her picture and says she loves her body. Stop going bonkers when a fat girl puts up a picture saying “curves are pretty, too.” You don’t need to defend it. Just accept it. All the noise has caused the key message to blur into background. If every body is beautiful as it is, then just leave things be as they are.

^^^^ I agree so hard w/ girlgrowingsmall.  Why is this body shaming?  It’s just an observation.  Society DOES push the top row of woman as the ideal shape these days.  It was different in the past.  People may like/not like that things have changed, but simply questioning where along the lines the change did happen does not mean you are body shaming.  I love seeing positivity and body acceptance posts all over my dash, but I feel like lately things are becoming over-PC, like every freaking picture is being over-analyzed to death to make sure it’s positive enough and accepting enough.  Sometimes people just wanna make observations, yo.

Its body shaming because its setting up a standard based on the value of a woman based on her LOOKS, not her overall HEALTH. The picture is asking you when the top row because HOTTER than the bottom which is more or less trying to imply that it only matters if a woman is built a certain way as long as she is fuckable and since the top row isn’t deemed fuckable, they are not real woman and feel ashamed for it. This poster isn’t about HEALTH, its about being SEXY which is something that a lot of women are trying to stop since THIS message is clouding the mind of women being healthy in favor of pleasing someone else.

Also take into consideration that the bottom row is composed of pictures where the women are actually POSED to look hot while the top row is composed mostly of the same ‘we’re going to invade this person’s privacy shot’ bullshit that goes around. Of course the top row is going to look like shit because they’re compose of pictures where the women are more or less caught in the moment and at an angel and time where we can see their bodies vs. the bottom row which is basically pin-up photos that were MADE to exaggerated the features of those women so they are pleasing to the eyes. Its not a fair comparison because the pictures are intentionally chosen to put one side over the other. If you wanted to put up a fair comparison, why not have a row of actual model shots from BOTH sides instead of pictures of people minding their own business vs pin-ups? That’s like having a picture of a woman sitting casually at a table and a picture of a pin-up model and then calling the casual woman ugly only because she’s not dosed in make-up with her body posed in some alluring fashion….LIKE THE WOMEN ON THE BOTTOM ARE.

And yes, I am gonna call a person out if they continually call me an anoriex bitch. You want to know why ‘skinny bitches get up in arms’ sometimes? They get up in arms when they’re told they’re ‘tools’ for ‘being brainwashed by the media’ despite the fact that’s who they naturally are, just like all the natural heavier girls out there. They get up in arms when they are told they can’t be proud of their bodies because that means they embrace an eating disorder they don’t have but everyone assumes they do because of how they look. They get up in arms because they are told to ignore all the insults that come towards them because it never happens and all insults about weight are only geared towards women who are bigger than them. They get up in arms when they are being pulled left and right by people who either tell them they are not skinny enough or by others who tell them they’re too skinny. They get up in arms when they are told that because their ‘image’ is in so many magazines, their lives are ‘easy’, even if their social situations tell an incredible different story.

Last time I checked, my fucking pants size wasn’t getting me through college, landing me a job, or paying for the medical expenses both my mother and I need. What it has gotten me though is a lot of back handed comments about how ‘I’m trying to be white’, that I look like a dude, or other insulting things but since body shaming NEVER happens to slim women, I’m supposed to take that in stride, just like all the other shit I have to face right?

If you’re going to love your body, you’re free to do that but when the only way you can love yourself is by tearing down others, you’re not doing yourself or your cause any favors. If you’re going to ignore someone’s justified complaint only because you think they’re ‘jealous’ then you’re completely missing the point.

That’s my thought, take it or leave it but its something that I had to say.