What is with this war on skinny chicks?

Question

I am about 5'8" and I weigh roughly 120 lbs. I eat healthy, and I am in better shape than most women I know. What is with these so-called "feminists" saying that my body is ugly because my boobs and my butt aren't big enough and so I'm not a "real woman". Oh I'm sorry! I guess I should run out and get breast implants to make the fembos happy! I think it's just pure jealousy myself.

By the way, this is nothing against feminists in general, because I am one myself. I am just sick of always being called ugly.

Answer 1

I agree. It's now acceptable these days to practice "reverse-discrimination".

Just as feminists feel it's acceptable to be misandrist against men, feminists feel it's acceptable to discriminate against skinny women. Let me guess, they accused you of trying to adhere to the patriarchal vision of what a woman should look like, as depicted in fashion magazines? Have they ever considered that this could be your body-type, and genetics play a role?

*Oh wait, I didn't read the part where you said you're also a feminist. Ewwww! Well, as long as you're not the man-hating kind, then you're alright with me.

Answer 2

___It's about health. Have you heard about the "obesity epidemic"? And how some large people have been required to buy two airplaine seats? Both sides are getting hit. In some ways, public health is to the 21st century what nationalism was to an earlier time-- the unarguable justification for tyranny. When you hear arguments about how obese people or smokers raise everybody's medical insurance rates, it's a justification for infringing on the lifestyle choices of others. It hasn't spread to anorexia--yet. But there are lots of busybodies who feel perfectly justified in telling other people how to live their lives.
___But if you're a healthy weight, you have nothing to be sensitive about, even from the busybodies. And if those busybodies don't have perfect bodies themselves, you might respond with something like, "Who the h3ll are YOU to be criticizing anyone's body?" But only for the really nasty ones. Otherwise, try to be less sensitive.

Answer 3

As an especially slender person myself, I can understand your frustration. Vanity sizing has certainly made shopping difficult. Pretty soon I'm going to be fighting tiny Asian girls on the floor of forever21 for the last size zero jeans.

Yeah, some people respond to the whole skinny craze by demonizing skinny girls. Which doesn't really help. I'm surprised by what people think it appropriate to say to me sometimes. I'm not just slender, but short and all around quite petite. Some lady said to me on the bus "I wouldn't want to be that small!" They really don't see how rude it is, but they certainly would if I looked her up and down and said "Wow! I'm glad I'm not that big!" We should be working towards a culture that values a wide variety of natural body types, not just turning things around.

But I can't say it's really a war. I mean, to be honest, it doesn't really sting that badly when someone says I'm "too small." I imagine it would hurt a lot more if I was getting the message all day every day that my body was really not ok. But It's not like I'm about to fall to my knees and scream "why, oh why, won't society see the beauty in size zero women!!?"

Answer 4

You are right, pure jealousy. The feminist mindset is lets all get fat, that way men will have to accept fat women and we wont have to try to stay in shape, lets all not shave, that way no woman will have to shave if we stick toegether etc.. Obesity is a far bigger problem than bulemy. However both are real problems. Maybe something can be done about both, without neglecting the other.

Answer 5

Women in general I think are sick of being compared to stick thin models and their value and worth only being important if they hold up to the ideal of what's beautiful. It's not as if the models are representative of the majority of women. They are not. So, if a woman could never be what the society is idealizing, it means they'd have to live with never being socially acceptable...and that's just a ludicrous concept.
Maybe the people who have called you ugly think you're starving yourself in order to be waif-like. If they don't know you, then what they say is irrelevant (and rude) at best.
Just keep in mind that true beauty isn't about, and shouldn't be about how well people can see your hip bones or scapula.

Being a "real woman" isn't about breasts and butts. Think about the women who've had double mastectomies because of breast cancer. They are no less female because of that.
Being a "real woman" is all about how you carry yourself, respect yourself, and how you move in this world. The things that really count, not how much you sway your hips as you sashay down the sidewalk.
If those things are taken care of and in line, you'll know you're a "real woman" and whatever anyone says to you, you'll ignore it because you'll know you're one heck of a beautiful lady.

Answer 6

There's no war on skinny women. What the objections are is the glorification of a body type that virtually no woman has naturally. Very few women are thin and have gigantic breasts. Breasts are comprised mainly of fatty tissue. It would be an anatomical oddity indeed if a stick thin woman had huge breasts. Breasts shrink as women lose weight. They don't get bigger and firmer as often portrayed in weight loss ads.

Answer 7

Well I'm tall and skinny but I have not had anything like that from any feminists.

And sure I wish I had a figure and I hope I fill out some more but I'm never going to have much more than I have now. And I don't think any feminists here would call me ugly but I would be pissed if some one who called themselfs a feminist did.

Answer 8

sweetie you are who you are..do not try to be anything else. i have a sister who is i would say ur height maybe taller and only 110 pounds. no matter how she tries she cannot really gain weight. her DNA is predestined that she is naturally that small. i swear that child has one heck of a metabolism. her brother is the same way. ( they are step by the way).
if you are healthy at the weight you are then that is fine. despite how small my sister is..she is healthy...i just worry if she gets below 110...coz then her ribs start showing.

but pay no mind to ppl who say stuff about you. someone is always going to poopoo something. let it be no skin off ur nose.

Answer 9

What feminist used body type to prove realness? We have different shapes and forms---I can never be a size 0 and look healthy, you can never be a curvy full figure with huge boobs and butt and look healthy---you can't please everyone and follow the same standards of beauty. Just stay healthy and happy. I have never heard a feminist used body structure to evaluate a woman's realness, so please let me know where you got it from.

Answer 10

Your comments may be abit over-exaggerated. The war isn't on skinny chicks but unhealthy women who promote the thought that anorexia and as least flesh on a body as possible is the ideal body - which it isn't, for obvious reasons. If you say you are healthy looking with a good lifestyle, the attacks should not be directed at you.

Also about the boobs and butt, it is scientifically proven that men prefer curvy to small, but again, that doesn't warrant attacks on your body just because you are not. These claims are made to prevent people becoming dead from being too thin.