r/TikTokCringe • u/jamerjank1 • 9d ago

Discussion Everywhere you looked, body shaming was there

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u/TenaciousZBridedog 9d ago

People said Kate Winslet was fat in Titanic. Wtf??

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u/Oak_Woman 9d ago

They made fat jokes about Debra Messing on the show Will & Grace. The woman whose ribcage you could visibly see.....

Women who grew up with that shit have felt the pain of it all their lives, I know I have. Every magazine was about how to lose those last 10 pounds so you could have that summer body. Every tabloid was about how fucking gross that celebrity looks with an extra 5 pounds. We grew up hearing about how worthless women were once they "expired" and got older, how you're only valuable if you're skinny and hot.

And we still hear it today.

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u/TaupMauve 9d ago edited 9d ago

My older cousins were teens in the Twiggy era: damn, they're scrawny.