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Where are all the Skinny Rants?

by Neel

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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4 Responses to “Where are all the Skinny Rants?”

  1. mo pie Says:

    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

  2. Healthy B.P.M. » Blog Archive » Fat Hatred Says:

    [...] Hatred June 14th, 2007 by Neel Mo told me in response to this post that there’s no way there’s an equal amount of prejudice about skinny people as compared to [...]

  3. Cynthia Says:

    Healthy B.P.M.,

    How come I only see mo pie’s quote? Where’s your response?

    Thanks

    Cynthia

  4. Candace Says:

    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.

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