There are new photos sweeping facebook that are shared to express larger women as beautiful (just as thinner
women are). And I agree with that. I’m all for it. Larger women should be shown
as beautiful in the media. There needs to be an evolution of media images, for
real. (How about even putting a stop to airbrushing, and revealing humans as humans and not digitally altered, flawless 2-D monsters! But thats another topic...)
The narrow-focus of thin women in the media is both damaging
and insulting to women everywhere. Women any shape, size, color are beautiful
(same goes for men!)
Though, sadly, this new facebook bandwagon is a misguided
attempt, left to ignorant people to redirect their self-resentment. It’s
“misguided” because some of these pictures, and a lot of the comments, are
insulting thin people. Making comments about bones being uncomfortable and
larger being “more attractive”. A lot of it is very sickening to me, a thin
woman.
No one is helping anyone by insulting other people. I
understand that there are a lot of insults and judgments around being “fat” and
that it needs to stop. But is insulting thin women going to help that?
If you are someone who made any of those comments, I ask
you: does insulting another sized woman really make you feel good about
yourself?
Lets try to make everyone feel good about themselves.
Stop the hate—don’t redirect it!
