Benjamin is done with your sexist clothing sizes. (Picture: Benjamin Ashton Cooper/Facebook)

Ever noticed that a women’s XL top really isn’t that extra large?

Benjamin Ashton Cooper just found that out for himself, and shared a brilliant piece of evidence that proves that firstly, women’s clothing sizes are straight up ridiculous, but also that there’s a major discrepancy between how clothes are sized for men and women. And that, he says, is sexist.

Benjamin was helping his girlfriend to clean out her closet when he noticed something pretty weird. A lot of what she was getting rid of was labelled as an extra large size.

‘That didn’t look right to me,’ he wrote on Facebook, ‘and here’s why: They fit me. I don’t say that to be silly or ironic.’




Benjamin tried on his girlfriend’s XL clothing and, erm, the pieces fitted him pretty perfectly.

So I'm helping my girlfriend clean out her closet (literally, shut up), and I noticed that a lot of what she was getting… Posted by Benjamin Ashton Cooper on Thursday, May 5, 2016

‘I am not an extra large man, and, more importantly, a woman my size is NOT an extra large woman,’ he says.

‘This bullsh*t right here is why we have 8 year olds with eating disorders. This sh*t right here is why men shout “f*cking fat hog!” at even nominally curvy girls on the street.’

And he’s right. The fact that the same size is labelled as an XL for women and a medium for men reinforces the idea that women have to be a smaller size than men to be ‘normal’. And that’s ridiculous.

Benjamin's Facebook post in full: ‘So I’m helping my girlfriend clean out her closet (literally, shut up), and I noticed that a lot of what she was getting rid of was of the XL size. That didn’t look right to me, and here’s why: ‘They fit me. I don’t say that to be silly or ironic. ‘It pisses me off. ‘I am not an extra large man, and, more importantly, a woman my size is NOT an extra large woman. This bullsh*t right here is why we have 8 year olds with eating disorders. This sh*t right here is why men shout “f*cking fat hog!” at even nominally curvy girls on the street. This is why men who think sexism is a “myth” perpetuated by liberal pussies are Full. Of. Shit. ‘Fuck body shaming. ‪#‎EndBodyShaming‬.’

Benjamin’s post has had more than 200,000 shares since he posted it last week, so it’s clearly striking a chord.

He ends on this, and we will too: ‘F*ck body shaming.’

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