Okay, so. I understand that being overweight, being fat, is not healthy. I get that. But what I don’t understand, what make me angry, is incidents like these ones. Since when did being fat mean that you were also not human? And on a small scale, why is fat automatically unattractive?

Let me flip this: A person who is skinny is not necessarily, not automatically, attractive. There can be all sorts of things wrong with them; bad skin, bad hair, bad teeth, bad bone structure, no physique, perhaps they’re too skinny. But a person who is fat is automatically unattractive? How does that work? Maybe we aren’t healthy, sure, and there’s excess bits and bits the jiggle — and that can be offputting, but what about those other things? You can discount a person as attractive because they don’t have them, but you can’t count a person as attractive even if they do?

The world isn’t going to change because of one itsy post by a random fat girl on the internet. I know that. But I had to get that out, because it makes me almost angry when I get people — boys, even — who ask me why I have such bad self-esteem. Why girls are so concerned about their appearance and so obsessed about not gaining weight. And then they turn around a comment on a girl who is possibly even lighter than me. This is why. Society tells us that I am ugly.

Skinny is not necessarily attractive, people. And fat — it’s not necessarily ugly. Instead of looking critically at everyone, try to find the good points. They are there.

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