magazines: celebrities share their weight loss tips! here's how to get a beach body! why has this celebrity let themself go so much and gained weight?

thin people: well we're just concerned for your health!

thin people: UMMM EXCUSE ME THAT'S THIN SHAMING!!! WE DESERVE BODY POSITIVITY TOO!

My (Brichibi's) Words: See, at the end of the day, body shaming is wrong, period, but there is a difference between fat shaming and skinny shaming. Skinny shaming does exist, of course it does, but fat shaming is so prevalent in our society that it's not even considered "shaming," it's considered a norm. It's normal to portray fat people in a negative light and normal to assume that they're lazy, good for nothing, ugly, unloved creatures who can only find happiness by being thin. As a fat person, being thin is a goal to achieve, it's what you should be trying to do with your life. No matter what you've achieved, it means nothing if you're not trying to be thin, which is ironic considering the judgement fat people get when they do try to lose weight (being told how to lose weight, that they're not losing it fast enough, that no one wants to see that at the gym or jogging outside, ect.) As a fat person, its assumed that you just don't give a shit about yourself, because you're not thin. As a fat person, it's assumed that you can't do anything until you are thin. Once you're thin, you can achieve anything, even basic things like getting off the couch, wearing cute clothes, and going outside (example: weight loss commercials where someone is fat and incapable of being active with their children, wearing something other than baggy clothes, or getting their hair done until they discover Slim Fast/Jenny Craig/Magical Pill X).