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Uncomfortable in our skin: the body-image report
More of us than ever hate the way that we look. It's making us anxious, unhealthy and disempowered. A special report on the pressures distorting the way we think and feel
by Eva Wiseman
Body image is a subjective experience of appearance. It's an ( Read more... )

So, on Tumblr I got around writing about my relationship with thinspo. Not one of my shiniest posts ever, but possibly one of the hardest ones I've ever written. TW: eating disorder, fatphobia, and shaming of body types. I tried to be as respectful towards FA as possible - honestly, considering how I normally write, I think I sound outright ( Read more... )

Or an example of how fat phobia makes no fucking sense. Warning: slender girl whine. Buhu, my life is so hard ( Read more... )

Okay, before I start I want everyone to understand that right now I'm just whining. I'm a thin girl in a thin-loving world, who also seem to have a little bit of curves. I know this. I also know that alot of people on my flist is not in this situation and manage to love their body even though society is freaking fucking... non-skiny-phobic. So that ( Read more... )