I’m going to take this time to just talk for a little bit about this particular brand of totally oblivious fat-shaming.



You, sir, have no idea who I am, what I look like, where I’ve come from, or what I’m going through. This “compliment” could have triggered god knows what, even if that was nowhere near the intention. The women in my family do this too as if “oh You’ve lost weight! You look great!” is something I want to hear. I looked great before, I look great now, and I will look great if I gain 100lbs or lose 50lbs or anything in between. I am not happy about losing weight. I am happy that my shopping experience will be made simpler now that I dont have to wade through mountains of horrible large patterns and disgusting colors that are so often entitled “plus size fashion”.

Losing weight is *NOT INHERENTLY A GOOD THING*. Assuming that it is is assuming that skinny is better than fat. All bodies are good bodies. Not all things meant as compliments are good compliments. This is one of those things.