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Those of us who have shifted along the scale of size can tell you that this skinny shaming thing is nonsense. And when we have this "dialogue", all we do is continue to center the feelings of ppl in the status quo who don't like to be seen as beneficiaries of a harmful system
For the millionth time: beauty standards are harmful. There's decades of conversation about this. Decades. Beauty standards affect us all and lead to the internalizing of dangerous ideals that impact our self esteem throughout our lives.
With that being said, some of us are *systemically* oppressed based on the stereotypes associated with our bodies. The conversation about beauty standards is not the same as the one about fatphobia because fatphobia is systemic and goes beyond being found attractive
Medical neglect, economic discrimination, public and widespread ridicule, overt and covert exclusion from public spaces, etc. etc... Are part of a system of oppression that fat people face. Skinny folks benefit from this system. Skinny ppl the status quo here
So, no. We are not going to conflate skinny people having self esteem issues because of unrealistic beauty standards to fat people facing medical, economic, social, and interpersonal violence every day. And that is that on that.
Fat people do not owe it to skinny people (the beneficiaries of fat phobic systems) the access to the affirmative spaces they have created for themselves. If you were really invested in talking about beauty ideals, you'd just do it. You wouldn't need to steal space from fat ppl
