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Psyche ([personal profile] djpsyche) wrote2015-03-28 07:09 pm

Skinny shaming response

FAO [livejournal.com profile] diana_molloy and whoever else thinks body shaming doesn't happen to thin people:

On Fatphobia, Thin Privilege, Skinny Shaming And People's Right To Subjective Experience Whatever Their Body Size

Hope this gets passed on to the original author. Thank you [livejournal.com profile] sashagoblin!

[identity profile] rednikki.livejournal.com 2015-03-30 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Even if you have that perfect combination, there are now images out there in which women are on their hands and knees and their stomachs are concave. That's impossible. It's called GRAVITY. Even if you are super-skinny your viscera are going to be pulled down toward the floor and your stomach will not be concave. Also, there are little folds and wrinkles that appear in flesh when you contract it, say by curling up in a ball or bending a certain way, and due to Photoshop people think that truly in-shape folks don't have that. They do, it's just been airbrushed out.

There have been a couple of Photoshop-retouching things that have been released over the past few years and they are MIND-BOGGLING.

[identity profile] djpsyche.livejournal.com 2015-03-30 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup. And people of all sizes have cellulite, stretch marks...