Healthy at Any Size
I took part in a discussion today, and here are some of the comments:
"I think skinny people need to shut their fucking yaps... a size 2 in my opinion isnt very healthy."
"How can they say that anyone over the age of 12 in that size is healthy!!"
The discussion was about how a local dancewear store told a customer "We don't carry plus size, we only serve a more fit and healthy customer." This is obviously way out of line. I think if a store only wants to carry sizes in a certain range that's their business, but making assumptions like that about people who do not have a dancer's build is incredibly rude and uncalled for.
However, I think the comments quoted above are even worse. These commenters were engaging in the same behavior they are outraged by. They seem to think it's acceptable to be hateful towards people smaller than them, and that baffles me. Healthy at any Size mean any size, not just your size.
To be fair, several people (myself included) said as much to the hypocritical commenters and they have not yet replied. I don't know if they even read the comments following theirs. Either way, an apology for their hateful words is not forthcoming. If they were my friends, I would be having words with them, and possibly removing them as friends.
To that end, I am sick and tired of people insulting me about my size. When it happens in person usually I'm too hurt and offended to say much of anything, let alone explain why I am hurt and offended. But you know what? I shouldn't have to explain. I wouldn't say things like that to anyone, and it baffles me why people think it's ok to say that about me.
I had thought I put this to rest in my last rant on this topic ( http://girlnamedxena.livejournal.com/420429.html). Clearly I was wrong. I guess I have to start standing up for myself in person. Since I feel like I shouldn't have to explain why insulting my body isn't ok, 'standing up for myself' will probably be literally standing up and leaving the space, which will be likely be socially awkward, but so it goes.
"I think skinny people need to shut their fucking yaps... a size 2 in my opinion isnt very healthy."
"How can they say that anyone over the age of 12 in that size is healthy!!"
The discussion was about how a local dancewear store told a customer "We don't carry plus size, we only serve a more fit and healthy customer." This is obviously way out of line. I think if a store only wants to carry sizes in a certain range that's their business, but making assumptions like that about people who do not have a dancer's build is incredibly rude and uncalled for.
However, I think the comments quoted above are even worse. These commenters were engaging in the same behavior they are outraged by. They seem to think it's acceptable to be hateful towards people smaller than them, and that baffles me. Healthy at any Size mean any size, not just your size.
To be fair, several people (myself included) said as much to the hypocritical commenters and they have not yet replied. I don't know if they even read the comments following theirs. Either way, an apology for their hateful words is not forthcoming. If they were my friends, I would be having words with them, and possibly removing them as friends.
To that end, I am sick and tired of people insulting me about my size. When it happens in person usually I'm too hurt and offended to say much of anything, let alone explain why I am hurt and offended. But you know what? I shouldn't have to explain. I wouldn't say things like that to anyone, and it baffles me why people think it's ok to say that about me.
I had thought I put this to rest in my last rant on this topic ( http://girlnamedxena.livejournal.com/420429.html). Clearly I was wrong. I guess I have to start standing up for myself in person. Since I feel like I shouldn't have to explain why insulting my body isn't ok, 'standing up for myself' will probably be literally standing up and leaving the space, which will be likely be socially awkward, but so it goes.