Where are all the Skinny Rants?
While fat ranters are ranting away, where are the thin rants?
Why are fat people getting all the attention?
What about puny people, short people, excessively tall people?
What’s all this obesity hype?
I loved this passage from Cynthia’s short rant excerpt posted on Big Fat Deal
Why is it that the larger sized people get so much more media attention? Size acceptance websites tend to skew more to the plus than to the petite, and they seem to be very negative (not sure if it’s intentional or not) towards people who are really size zero.
I firmly believe that while there is prejudice against fat people there is an equal amount of prejudice against skinny people. It’s always better to have more than less, especially when it comes to a woman’s body type. And while fatter persons can be glamorized with sympathy excessively skinny people can turn into sacks of bones.
That is not right at all.
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June 13th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Did you read the comments in that entry? People acknowledged the point, but there’s no way there’s an equal amount of prejudice about skinny people. Read Fatfu’s comment, for one:
http://www.bfdblog.com/?p=106#comment-1606
June 14th, 2007 at 3:27 am
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June 14th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Healthy B.P.M.,
How come I only see mo pie’s quote? Where’s your response?
Thanks
Cynthia
August 12th, 2007 at 12:12 am
It’s great to have support for skinny people,especially women. I have personally experienced prejudice about my size for most of my life even from relatives. It really gets me depressed at times.
I learned about an Association for the acceptance of Fat people in the newspapers in an article about “Hairspray”.
I think we should have one also.