The Inner Workings of a Chibi.

tv: all fat people are clumsy, eat all the time and have poor self control. sometimes they are funny, but they never have a lot of friends and nobody could ever be attracted to them in any way. All beautiful people are thin.
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? 
society : thin people are beautiful! Thin equals fit and healthy! Fat people are lazy, sloppy, gluttonous, and disgusting! They should take better care of themselves, they're a burden to society!
thin people: well we're just concerned for your health! 
1 song: fuck those skinny bitches
thin people: UMMM EXCUSE ME THAT'S THIN SHAMING!!! WE DESERVE BODY POSITIVITY TOO!
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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).
 This is why terms like "skinny bitches" exist.  Because you can only be told that thin is the way to be for so long before you get fed up and say "fuck you."  It's more so a declaration against society's ideals of what beautiful is, because society can't even decide what that is, because now there's a such thing as "too thin" and there's a such thing as "photoshop" where even thin people are shopped to be thinner.  Even so, there's a difference between "too thin" and "fat," because fat is never seen as something to aspire to be, its seen as a disease, as something to get rid of, as something that holds you back from accomplishing anything even if you accomplish everything.  I have a college degree and am a published author but you bet your ass that people are more concerned about what I'm eating versus the things I've achieved in my life.

The thing is: when someone calls you too skinny, that hurts. It’s inappropriate, hurtful, and makes you self conscious. But at the end of the day, you pick up a magazine, you turn on the TV, you go on the internet on a gossip site - what do you see? Women who look like you. Women who have a body that recalls yours, women who are considered the standards of beauty to which all must follow to be considered beautiful. You go to a store, and odds are you can find clothes that are in your size. Odds are you don’t have go to stores dedicated to people your size, clothes that might not be as cute and are definitively more expensive.

When you’re fat, not only does it hurt, but society just confirms it day after day. You flip on TV, you read a magazine, and there are no women in your size. Nobody with a body like yours, nobody modeling clothes or being called gorgeous. You go to a store, and you can’t find clothes that fit you - and even if you do find things in larger sizes, they still don’t LOOK right, don’t fit right, cause they were designed for thinner girls in mind, and making these clothes in larger sizes doesn’t mean it’s going to look good on your body. You’re told you’re ugly by a piece of shit and basically the world you live in says back, well, yeah, that’s true.

That’s the difference. No, people making comments about your body are ALWAYS unwelcome and gross, but a thin person and fat person still live in the same society that caters and upholds thinness as a standard of beauty. That doesn’t change, and that’s why it’s not the same.

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—	On why skinnyshaming isn’t the same as fatshaming, crystalzelda (via bookmad)

You know what. Just because thin people aren't always put down doesn't mean we don't have to put up with shit. Every single day I'm told " you need to eat more. You look disgustingly thin. No one wants a stick" when tbh I eat more then the average person but I can't put on weight. So fuck off about fat people being the only ones who ever get put down. Fuck. Off.

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princepuma:

like I said in the post I made that you clearly chose to skim through, judgement doesn’t only extend to fat people. Skinny shaming exists, and its an incredibly demeaning and horrible thing and i’m sorry you have to experience it.
But like I also said in the post you chose not to read all the way, skinny shaming is NOT the same as fat shaming. Because fat shaming doesn’t JUST refer to telling someone they need to lose weight or judging their appearance. It also extends to every single media outlet telling you your ugly, ever magazine cover telling you to lose 5, 10, 20, 30, 100 lbs because it’s the only way you’ll matter. It’s every person looking at you strange when you try to buy clothes, it’s every single store you walk in to only carrying sizes 0-6 because “skinny” sizes are deemed average.
So no, fat people aren’t the only ones who are put down. But again, that’s not that I said. What i’m telling YOU is to learn the difference between skinny people being told they need to eat a sandwich and fat people being told they need to stop fucking existing for their weight.

Someone on my Facebook page made this same point when I shared an article that went into skinny shaming and fat shaming. She said something about how she’s been both – skinny and fat – and how yes, skinny shaming exists. She was called “string bean” and told all sorts of things. It’s true that skinny people are told to eat a sandwich, are called “skinny bitches” and told to gain some weight.

But not too much because then you’d get fat. Fat is always the major negative.

And that’s the point she made, because when she was fat she was called things like “land whale.” There’s a difference between “gain some weight” and “eat a bunch of cheeseburgers and die,” “ewww” “gross” “disgusting” “lazy” “good for nothing” and the assumptions made about fat people to the point of people assuming you just can’t, and don’t, do anything.

Not to mention the whole “glorifying obesity” notion, you know, because when I go out and do anything it’s glorifying an unhealthy lifestyle because I’m fat. I post pictures of my cosplay where I’m smiling and happy because I like the cosplay, but because I’m fat and smiling I’m promoting a lifestyle that’ll lead everyone to a gross, fatty death. I mean just the other day I made a meme that got shared that essentially said to not let the negatives get you down, and someone responded with, “I agree but I hope it isn’t used as an excuse for fat people to be lazy.”

And that’s the difference.

Skinny shaming is terrible. Period. However, there is a difference between “gain some weight” and “die fatty.” By acknowledging that we’re not saying no one bashes skinny people, we’re just talking about the terrible facts in regards to fat shaming. We’re not telling skinny people to not discuss their experiences, if anything, we want body shaming to not exist at all for anyone. By talking about our experiences and the differences between them we’re showing how unfair this all is. A fat person is told to be skinny, a skinny person is told to gain weight. A fat person is told that skinny is the thing to be and yet we can see that skinny people get crap, too. So the overall message in the bottle is to be happy with yourself, period, because you’re going to get crapped on no matter what.

So stop thinking that we’re against you somehow. There’s a difference, but that doesn’t mean we don’t care.