Skinny shaming

If you spend some time randomly browsing the internet, you are bound to run into what has turned into an anti-supermodel mantra: “Real Women Have Curves”. That’s not very nice. Actually, shaming girls who are skinny by nature, or by choice, is just as detrimental as making fun of those who are overweight.

The fat girls get a bad reputation for having no self-control, not taking enough care about their appearance, and to be honest, just bad genes (think of people who are at the gym trying to lose weight, and still they are being made fun of as they are running on the treadmill). Skinny girls are on the opposite end of the spectrum – they are believed to be too much concerned with their looks (even if their body shape is just the natural result of a fast metabolism), and often time they are urged by random strangers to just “Go eat something!”

So next time you post an image like this one, think about what you are saying. You are not making it ok for women to look like themselves, whatever their body shape, you are just switching the single desired body type to a few kilograms more.