Skinny people have feelings too

Before I get too far down the line with this I want to make a disclosure.

I recently read a blog recently entitled Real Women DON'T Have Curves. While I was put off at first by the title, the rest of the article made a lot of sense. Every woman is a REAL women. Skinny women (here to mean sizes 0 and 2, as seen in the modeling world) can be sensitive to jabs at their appearance as well. Such as the infamous: "why don't you go eat a cheeseburger?" Or "look at those mosquito bites."

I do wonder if somehow this article is missing a key aspect of this dialogue, though. Because while some women who are skinny may not want to be skinny, I believe it is the media that makes them feel this way. As young girls we are exposed to things in magazines and on the television (now on the internet as well) that tell us what beautiful is. Going back and looking at my Seventeen Magazines I noticed a trend: white, blonde, skinny, and makeup.

I want to add to the article by saying whether we were born a woman or wish we were, no matter what our ethnicity is, and what religion we practice or don't practice we are all women. It's not just about body size or physical characteristics anymore, it's also about background.

However, I appreciate this article so much because what I personally got from it was a really important lesson:

All women are real women. It is unnecessary for women to fat shame, skinny shame, slut shame, or prude shame each other. Women shaming women must stop.

With that being said I think it is about time that every kind of woman is represented in the media. The fact that our Miss America is of Indian descent is absolutely spectacular. But what is not spectacular is the reaction it got from many Americans: racism. While it is sad, I am not surprised that many Americans reacted this way because diversity in the modeling and acting world is not seen in America. Once diversity is the norm then things will change for the better. We do not live in a post-racial society. We have to continue fighting. 

I'm not sure if all of that made sense. It makes sense in my head, but I know I went from skinny to race in the blink of an eye. The truth is, it's all connected in some way. I hope we can see soon soon how we are all connected with one another. 

http://blogs.uoregon.edu/j350dove/2013/06/11/agenda-setting/

Tata for now!