Saturday, October 12, 2013

Fat Shaming Week

So Fat Shaming Week started on Monday the 7th and will end on the 14th, and I'm quite disgusted with the results.  Surprised?  Not really.  But disgusted, yes.  I'm still trying to figure out the logic behind such a thing, as this "fat shaming" is simply horrid.
What's Fat Shaming Week, you ask?  Well, my friend, during Fat Shaming Week, you shame someone who appears to be fat or fat people as a whole.  Why?  Because it's helpful, of course!  By shaming these people, you're really acting as a motivator to get them to lose weight!  Hooray!
Not.
Fat Shaming Week is being carried out through several different things.  Some are posting articles with titles like "5 Reasons Fat Girls Don't Deserve Love" and "5 Ways to Bully Fat Sluts on a Date."  Some are photographing these women to make them feel bad about their weight.  And some are posting about it on Twitter (because they, like many bullies, are cowards who hide behind their computers).  Some tweets include:
"#FatShamingWeek Here's a tip for the ladies.  You will not be as fat as you are if you eat less and exercise more.  You're welcome."  -@Kanamit2
"The moment I have to pay for your healthcare costs, I get to say what you do with your body.  #fatshamingweek" -@ObserverWatches
"Not a lot of women participating in #FatShamingWeek.  Because women are the bigger part of the problem (pun intended). They condone being fat" -@Feisty_Woman

I have so many issues with these that I don't know where to begin.  But I'll try to organize my thoughts for your sake.
Issue 1: Fat Shaming Week is not positive motivation, but rather, blatant bullying.  If there's one issue I have with people telling me I can't sing, it's that I know what kinds of mistakes that person is making when they sing.  Similarly, my problem with these people is that they have a log in their own eye.  They may be thin, but they're downright rude, and that's far worse than being fat any day.
Issue 2: Losing weight isn't easy.  Fat Shaming Week, from what I've observed, seems to be misogynistic in the way that most of these tweets and articles are directed mostly to fat women.  Let me tell you that losing weight is not easy for women.  The way we were designed, we just tend to have more fat than men.  If you don't know that already, then you're either oblivious or flat-out stupid.  I've known guys who don't exercise any more than I do (in fact, they probably exercise less) and yet they're toned and muscular.  That's just the way they are.  I, on the other hand, may be thin, but I still have some fat on me.  And you know what?  I like it.  Because I'm a freaking girl and that's how girls were designed!
Issue 3: Fat women aren't ugly.  I still don't understand why weight equates to beauty.  You know how some girls get girl crushes - you know, they're not actually attracted to those girls but they can appreciate their beauty and personality traits?  Yeah... I get girl crushes on people who would be considered fat.  I think they're beautiful.  And you want to know something else?  There are guys who prefer bigger women over the smaller ones.  You were made by the One who created the moon and the stars, the vast oceans that go on for miles and miles, and towering snow-capped mountains.  Don't you think those things are beautiful?  If you think those are beautiful, then you are a thousand times that.  He put so much effort into you, much more than He did with the sky and the oceans and the mountains.  He knows the hairs on your head, how many breaths you've taken, how many steps you've walked.  You are told you're fearfully and wonderfully made in Psalm 139:14.  Nowhere in the Bible does it say you're beautiful because you're thin or because you have perfect teeth or because you're confident.  It says you're beautiful because you were made by God, and unless you choose to think of yourself as beautiful, you're going to go your whole life thinking you're not.  (Only recently did I realize this truth - that I am beautiful.  I don't care if you think I'm ugly or if your friends do or whatever.  God thinks I'm beautiful and that's enough for me.)
Issue 4: Some women are perfectly content with the way they are.  You don't need to go running their lives.  You have your business and they have theirs.  Run your own life.  It should be less stressful on you anyway if you only worry about yourself.  It's kind of sad how many children understand that better than these adults.

I could go on and on, but I think I've made my point clear.  Fat Shaming Week is stupid and pointless and negative and mean and a whole bunch of shizzit.  People complain about this broken world and they don't even know that stuff like this is a huge part of the problem.  This world will never be perfect - it won't even come close - but if we want to at least make it at least nicer, we need to accept differences.  Stop with the fat shaming.  It only makes you look like the playground bully.

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