I've been accused of being anorexic, told to eat a burger, had strangers grab my waist. That doesn’t mean fat shaming doesn’t exist, it means that thin shaming ALSO does. That’s how patriarchy works; it makes sure none of us are ever "right" because constantly failing to attain whatever the ideal is at the time (right now it’s "curvy") keeps us perpetually silenced and oppressed as women. We should be supporting each other, not compete about who’s the bigger victim.

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outrageauxbonnesmoeurs

Then why the hell are you waltzing onto a blog where the very specialized bad treatment that fat people receive (listed on, well, all over this fucking blog and in the FAQs and that’s like 7,500 posts on this blog alone and hundreds of articles linked to in the FAQ) and demanding we acknowledge that “skinny-shaming” is just as bad as fat shaming, or that it’s all just sexism (while we’ve shown, though there’s an undubitable intersection, that fat hate is very much its own beast)?

That doesn’t sound like you’re supporting anyone but yourself and your agenda. Which is fine, but don’t pretend to be some advocate of justice and fairness, or facts, for that matter.

-ATL