Why is it that I cannot read a single article about fat-shaming without some “naturally thin” woman jumping in on the comments to decry how it is just as awful to be her. Case in point, scroll down to this (very awesome) commentary on body image in the fashion industry (published in a plus size modeling magazine, no less) and you’ll find the perfunctory skinny bitch’s battle cry:
“How about the other side of the issue? I am naturally thin. I have ALWAYS had a problem GAINING weight.”
I call bullshit.
Here’s the difference…
Miss Naturally Thin isn’t writing this while she’s watching an expose on Paula Deen’s cooking/recent diabetes “revelation” on Access Hollywood knowing damn well that the link between diabetes and obesity is one of correlation, NOT causation.
Miss Naturally Thin wasn’t inundated by no less than a half dozen weight-loss commercials in the past two hours, reinforcing the ideology that her body type is “bad.”
Miss Naturally Thin can claim that her body size is “natural” and even if mine is, no one is buying it. She’s off the hook. Me? I’m lazy.
Miss Naturally Thin isn’t beating herself up, emotionally, for letting herself get thin. It’s “natural,” after all! She is exactly the opposite of millions of “fat” women everywhere that live in a vicious cycle of eating to block emotional pain, feeling shame for eating, eating to block the shame… wash, rinse, repeat.
Miss Naturally Thin doesn’t have to spend a lifetime (or at least 40 years) overcoming a feeling of shame for creating a body that society tells her is “bad.”
These are the differences, Miss Naturally Thin. Stop trying to compare fat-shaming to your body image issues. You are trying to compare apples to oranges – and they are not the same. (Take it from a non-skinny bitch. I know my food.)
The real truth is, Miss Naturally Thin, I wish you felt good about yourself and that no one ever picked on you for being too skinny. But more than that – I wish you would, for once, just leave me the fuck alone when my sisters and I take one small opportunity to come together in empowerment.
You’re like the ignorant redneck that wants to know why there are no “white” colleges. (Answer is every college is a white college in the country, by the way.) Near everything in our world is about you - for you – Miss Naturally Thin. The issue of fat-shaming? It’s not yours. Stop trying to take that from us too.
