on instagram beauty culture: if you’re a teenager or even just in your early-mid twenties and all you see on instagram is an exaggerated hourglass figure, an assortment of waist trainers, supplements and skinny teas- I’m pleading with you- don’t buy into it. There is so much that goes into these pictures, from 3-5 different editing apps on par with photoshop, actual photoshop!! by professionals!!, and a most of the time- cosmetic surgery. Most of the girls do not just naturally have the body they are using to sell products, girls selling skinny teas are usually naturally skinny, girls who have the absolute perfect proportions usually spend a decent amount of time editing and modifying them on multiple apps, you are not an anomaly! Your body is not disproportionate or ugly or anything remotely close just because it doesn’t look like theirs! Your body isn’t wrong or too thin or too fat or too wobbly or bony, you are fine I promise you, there are things to worry about and your body should not be the main thing that is stressing you out. Trust me, you’re okay. If you’re healthy, if your body is doing what it needs to do- working and working for you, you’re doing fine. Don’t punish yourself or your body by starving yourself or overeating, or believing that the products being sold on these scam sites are worth spending your money on. Skinny teas are essentially laxatives, and can ruin your digestive system and give you diarrhea, dehydration and cause permanent damage.  Waist trainers will make you uncomfortable and suffocate your organs, while making no actual changes in the long run except for the worst. They are modern day corsets, and not in a romantic way- in a painful, choking, organ-damage way. Please be careful.

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The kind who wear their hair long and the kind that wear a ponytail?

The kind who cross their arms and the kind who stand with arms at their side?

The kind who stand in upright posture and the kind that tilt their pelvic bone?

The kind who like loose fit shirts and the kind of like fitted?

The kind who wear two watches and the kind who don’t wear any?

But if we’re being completely honest, I’m only seeing one kind of “female” here: The kind who experiences constant judgement from outsiders who have absolutely no right to talk about their bodies or appearance without permission. 

Trust me, we don’t need to take notes about this - Women are already well aware that our worth is defined by how sexually attractive we are to men.

YES.

As per usual, spot on.

Goes for men too.  No matter our character or personality, our worth to girls is ultimately defined by how sexually attractive we are to them

Nope - I’m looking at a huge indicator of your personality right now and there’s definitely nothing there that I’m interested in. It’s you, your thoughts, your words and your actions that we don’t like.

Don’t hijack a post about women. If you want to discuss men’s issues, you can scoot on over to your own post about it instead of taking attention away from this one.

I’m all for loving your body and stuff but please do not say “thin privilege” is a thing because it isn’t. ~privilege~ is based on something you cannot change pls don’t be that person

Since weight is highly-correlated with both ethnicity and socio-economic status, I think…

I’d like to add my input:

-The body image that is highly regarded today and made up in the minds of wealthy men isn’t possible. No one can achieve this image.

-Being thin doesn’t indicate class necessarily, but it can. What IS VERY WRONG is insinuating that being overweight is disgusting. It injects so much fear into women everywhere. We are all affected by the pressure to be “perfect”. Being overweight is in no way disgusting. Someone being overweight shouldn’t offend these classist shits.

-If you’re thin and going around saying fat people can help it, fat people should lose weight, you can afford healthy food, etc., then that is merely the result of class privilege not of thin privilege and they should feel ashamed of themselves and called out for it.

-Those who have suffered under some kind of eating disorder know that thin isn’t a privilege. At one point, we wanted to be thin so terribly that we risked our lives for it. There wasn’t a stopping point. Anorexia and bulimia doesn’t cease after the woman decides that she’s at her preferred weight. She feels as if she isn’t thin enough regardless of what weight she is at. Even if you don’t have anorexia/bulimia, I know every woman has felt at one point in her life she wasn’t thin enough.

-I also know every woman has probably have had someone make comments about her weight. I get them all the time being underweight and it hurts. I don’t like it when I hear my sister and friends speak horribly about their bodies. I cringe and feel anger towards the system.

-I don’t like it when I hear women try to justify their insecurities by making other women feel terrible about their bodies. It’s internalized misogyny. I would like to castrate men who make women feel as if their bodies are trash.

-Body image issues affect all of women. So no one really has a privilege. We’re all meant to feel like shit under corporate rule.

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