Sunday 5 October 2014

Fat Shaming

This post could go alot of ways,
firstly i could write a long post about how being beautiful and fat don't have to be mutually exclusive, 
OR i could write about how body size is not at all a factor of beauty and the overused " its not about whats outside its about whats inside" would be the star of this post.
That's not my place, i am neither fat nor am i skinny. so to pass any judgement on fat people would be wrong. 
Lets start by what inspired this post: i was casually scrolling through my instagram and i saw a lovely picture: the comment being "i am not fat i have fat, having fat doesn't define me" as powerful as that was, it was overshadowed by the next post which was a picture of a fat lady with tights clothes on with a comment that read something like; "this is not thick this is fat ew, sorry if i sound rude" now i found it very ironic that this lady was fat and did not merely have fat. 
Body shaming is an exercise we all partake in, well that is a gross generilisation, many of us partake in. Studies done by myself in my mind indicate that we body shame for two reasons
1. We have a weird feeling of superiority because our bodies are more socially desirable 
2. We feel bad about our bodies and feel the need  to exercise this self consciously and demean peoples whose bodies are less socially acceptable.
Do you see the problem with body shaming now?
We don't live in a Utopian society but if we did everybody would wear what they wanted and not be judged for merely wanting to be happy.
In this life i have decided that the Keke Palmer body doesn't happen to everyone and if i dont wear what i want waiting for it to happen to be i'm doing to be 60 wearing bum shorts.
LET PEOPLE LIVE.
Its ok to express your personality by wearing what ever makes you happy, its not ok to judge people for the decisions they make regarding their bodies. 

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