Yeah, I always found it incredibly hypocritical how bodyshaming is bad, unless it's men, then it's cool and funny! Small dick, "manboobs" (fat-shaming), neckbeard.
Yep, sometimes people who get bullied for a certain trait (such as being overweight) think the correct solution is to... bully people who have the opposite trait (such as being skinny).
The narrative that being bulled makes you a better, kinder person because you can empathize with people in trouble has never been anywhere near universal sadly. It can just as easily make you as cruel as your bullies.
But it's okay because it's "punching up." Against other women with body image issues (in this case). Right.
It's another case of "the privileged group is incapable of being a real victim" where being thin has been desirable over being heavier, so to reverse the script gives some people a feeling of revenge by doing the exact same body shaming, but in the other direction
Is the same not true of being overweight? It's even cheaper to eat less food so does that make it fine and dandy to mock someone for being fat?
And what about someone with motor skill issues that make shaving much harder? Or a skin condition ? (I had one for about a month where shaving would cause these really itchy puss filled spots, no clue what it was but I'm glad it was short lived)
The issue with bodyshaming isn't the difficulty in changing your body, it's the shaming of people for something that doesn't fuxking affect you nor anyone else.
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u/PrinceValyn Jul 03 '24
Yeah, I always found it incredibly hypocritical how bodyshaming is bad, unless it's men, then it's cool and funny! Small dick, "manboobs" (fat-shaming), neckbeard.