10/01/2022
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"I found this infographic that was made by Glamour magazine after they conducted a survey on body size stereotypes. They asked people to ascribe words to each of the girls, and these were the results:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The girl on the left is thin, and the girl on the right is in a bigger body, yes, but - and it’s kind of hard to tell from one photo so please correct me if you think i’m wrong - still straight-sized, yet because she doesn’t fit into typical societal standards of beauty, she is seen as ‘big’. There are also other things wrong with this photo, like the total lack of skin, stretchmarks, veins, body hair, pores, the fact that there’s zero representation other than two blonde white women… But I’d love to dig into the general message. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What do we think of the results? I’d love for you to let me know below, but here’s my take:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
It perfectly illustrates society’s implicit biases towards body size - as a direct result of the diet culture-ridden world that we live in. That a woman who’s in a small body should be perceived as a threat, someone to be feared, and that a woman in a bigger body is lazy, lacking in willpower and somehow inferior. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It’s disgusting, right?! Because body size or type doesn’t determine personality. Yes, it might shape how you are treated in this world, but having more fat on your body does not make you more lazy, or less ambitious, or less superficial, or more passive. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Your body size and shape shouldn’t say anything about you. For far too long, it’s meant far too much, and the reality is that it doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t mean any of the words written on these women, and it doesn’t mean any of the words you attach to yourself because of your body size, either." ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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